February 2, 2017 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / http://www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring top insider trading patterns and these stocks are the most likely to trade Higher in the next 6 months. Old Second Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ:OSBC), Century Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ:CNBKA), Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE:SRG), Clearfield Inc. (NASDAQ:CLFD), WashingtonFirst Bankshares Inc. (NASDAQ:WFBI) are all expected to go Higher as Buy signals have been generated by top insider trading patterns. The most important data elements considered when performing insider analysis are: Insiders Track Record - An insiders track record is best summarized by the Insider Score which ranges from 1 (least predictive) to 100 (most predictive) based on prior trading performance. In addition, the actual returns following the insiders prior trades are included to determine the potential magnitude of future returns. Insiders Role - Trades by higher-level insiders are generally more predictive than trades by lower level insiders. Higher-level insiders to include Chairman (CB), Chief Executive Officer (CEO), President (P), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Vice Chairman (VC).

The chart below displays the stocks expected to go Higher along with the insider name, position, predictive insider score, 6 month expected return and number of trading decisions included in the score.

  Symbol  Company Name                     Insider Name                     Role     Shares      Insider Score  Avg 6 Month Return  # of Dec. 
  OSBC    Old Second Bancorp Inc.          Tapscott, James F.               D        2,500       76             14.3%               2         
  CNBKA   Century Bancorp Inc.             Sloane, Barry R                  CEO      6           90             6.2%                126       
  SRG     Seritage Growth Properties       Berkowitz, Bruce R               B        75,200      99             23.2%               14        
  CLFD    Clearfield Inc.                  Roth, Ronald G                   CB       5,000       100            23.7%               44        
  WFBI    WashingtonFirst Bankshares Inc.  Mohan, Madhu K                   D        2,854       76             9.3%                3

The insider buying report presents recent insider purchases, reported on Forms 3, 4, and 5 filed with the SEC. The transactions are aggregated to a 'decision' level which simplifies the data analysis. A decision is a grouping of buying or selling by an individual at the specified company.

Old Second Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ:OSBC) - Old Second Bancorp, Inc. operates as a holding company for Old Second National Bank that provides a range of banking services. The company accepts demand, NOW, money market, savings, time deposit, individual retirement, Keogh deposit, and checking accounts. The company also offers lines of credit for working capital; lending for capital expenditures on manufacturing equipment; lending to small business manufactures, service companies, medical and dental entities, and specialty contractors; commercial real estate loans; construction loans; residential real estate loans comprising residential first mortgages, second mortgages, and home equity line of credit mortgages; consumer loans, including motor vehicle, home improvement, and signature loans; installment, student, and agricultural loans; and overdraft checking. In addition, it provides safe deposit services; trust services; wealth management services; and traveler s checks, money orders, cashier s checks, foreign currency, direct deposits, discount brokerage, debit and credit cards, and other special services, as well as acquires the U.S. treasury notes and bonds. Further, the company offers online and mobile banking; corporate cash management products, including remote and mobile deposits capture, investment sweep accounts, zero balance accounts, automated tax payments, automatic teller machines access, telephone banking, lockbox accounts, automated clearing house transactions, account reconciliation, controlled disbursement, detail and general information reporting, wire transfers, and vault services for currency and coin; and investment, agency, and custodial services for individual, corporate, and not-for-profit clients. As of December 31, 2015, it provided its financial services through its 24 banking locations primarily located in Aurora, Illinois, and its surrounding communities, as well as in the Chicago metropolitan area. Old Second Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is based in Aurora, Illinois..

Century Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ:CNBKA) - Century Bancorp, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for Century Bank and Trust Company that provides banking products and services. It accepts savings accounts, NOW accounts, demand deposits, time deposits, and money market accounts, as well as cash management accounts. The company s loan products include single-family and multi-family residential, municipal, commercial and residential real estate, consumer, construction, and land development loans. It also provides automated lockbox collection, cash management, and account reconciliation services to corporate and institutional customers, as well as to the municipal market; and securities brokerage services. It serves commercial enterprises, state and local governments and agencies, non-profit organizations, and individuals in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. The company offers its services through a network of 27 banking offices. Century Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Medford, Massachusetts..

Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE:SRG) - Seanergy Maritime Corp.

Clearfield Inc. (NASDAQ:CLFD) - Clearfield, Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells standard and custom passive connectivity products to the fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP), large enterprises, and original equipment manufacturers markets in the United States. The company offers Clearview cassette, a main building block of the company s product platform; Clearview Classic and Clearview Blue, a system with five parts that nest together in the cassette s main housing to support a range of applications; Clearview xPAK to land small port count fiber terminations and optical components; and fiber deep for cable-to-cable deployment, as well as packages optical components for signal coupling, splitting, termination, multiplexing, demultiplexing, and attenuation for integration within its fiber management platform. Its products also include Fieldsmart Fiber Crossover Distribution System and FieldSmart FxHD for fiber management modularity and scalability; FieldSmart Fiber Scalability Center, a modular and scalable outside plant cabinet that allows rollout of FTTP services; FieldSmart Fiber Delivery Point, a series of enclosure systems that incorporates the delivery of fiber connectivity to the neighborhood or business district; and FieldSmart Small Count Delivery, an enclosure systems that are packaged to make landing small count fiber cost-effective and efficient. In addition, the company offers FieldShield Pushable Fiber, FieldShield Multiport SmarTerminal, and FieldShield Hardened Connector; CraftSmart, a line of optical protection field enclosures to optimize fiber protection and storage; and fiber and copper assemblies with industry-standard or customer-specified configuration. It operates through various sales channels comprising direct to customer, distribution partners, and original equipment suppliers. The company was formerly known as APA Enterprises, Inc. and changed its name to Clearfield, Inc. in January 2008. Clearfield, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota..

WashingtonFirst Bankshares Inc. (NASDAQ:WFBI) - WashingtonFirst Bankshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for WashingtonFirst Bank that provides commercial banking products and services to small-to-medium sized businesses, not-for-profit organizations, professional service firms, and individuals in Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The company offers various deposit products, including business and personal checking, NOW, tiered savings and money market, time deposit, and individual retirement accounts. It also provides commercial and residential real estate loans, commercial and industrial loans, construction and development loans, and consumer loans. In addition, the company provides cash management services, such as electronic banking, sweep accounts, lockbox, account reconciliation, merchant card depository, safe deposit box, remote deposit capture, and automated clearing house origination services, as well as after hour depository and ATM services. It operated through a network of 18 full-service banking offices in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia..

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