To: J.L. who wrote (1610 ) 7/6/2000 1:23:05 PM From: Tunica Albuginea Respond to of 4155 J.L. I think you may be right. Looking back at today's action: - another sell off early AM to 11 AM - Then my charts show accumulation and + money flow starting @ 11 AM. - I then watched the stock hang around 8 7/8. Now 8 7/8 - 8 5/8 is important because that's where we had large accumulation in April: Specifically, April 5 Volume 15.3 mill closed 8.5 April 10, vol. 13.5 mill closed 8.6 A lot of accumulat. occurred in those days. So there is support there. It seems to have held. It is possible that today's sell was the mo-mo crowd cutting their losses to 15% off the high of 11. Merrill has a neutral 3-3 opininion on it. They have 2000 earnings at $1.45 ,the street has it at 1.57. So a $9 stock making $1.45 is not bad. You could have bought a dot com . Here is what I like: Managed assets: $98.6 billion !!! and growing every year andnicely growing employee base conseco.com By comparison, Schwab's are ~ 350 bill and Merrill's are 650 bill. I think that is what got Wendt's attention. He will leverage those assets as he did at GE Capital. I agree with you. Selling may be over: time to go back in? Yes; thinking of buying back my original position, TA .conseco.com Year ended December 1999 Managed assets: $98.6 billion Operating earnings: $1,068.0 million Operating earnings per share (diluted): $3.21 Employee associates at year end: 17,187 Year ended December 1998 Managed assets: $87.2 billion Operating earnings: $1,046.3 million Operating earnings per share (diluted): $3.15 Employee associates at year end: 13,954 Year ended December 1997 Managed assets: $70.3 billion Operating earnings: $991.8 million Operating earnings per share (diluted): $2.46 Employee associates at year end: 12,654 Year ended December 1996 Managed assets: $59.1 billion Operating earnings: $467.5 million Operating earnings per share (diluted): $1.64 Employee associates at year end: 7,768 Year ended December 1995 Managed assets: $42.7 billion Operating earnings: $381.8 million Operating earnings per share (diluted): $1.64 Employee associates at year end: 6,061 Year ended December 1994 Managed assets: $32.8 billion Operating earnings: $331.8 million Operating earnings per share (diluted): $1.33 Employee associates at year end: 5,708 =======================================================Message #1610 from J.L. at Jul 6, 2000 10:12 AM I hereby announce that the selling is over. 12:32 pm est $8 15/16. Let the buying begin.