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To: Bill Tholen who wrote (603)	3/11/1998 11:18:00 PM
From: Rob Preuss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1250

Thanks Bill. Mind if I explore this a bit further? Okay, let's suppose that some one (person or institution) purchased 206,200 shares at 1:00PM. Naturally there must have been seller(s) on the other side of this trade. Would it not seem to be reasonable to assume there were multiple (perhaps many) such sellers and, despite the fact that this was an uptick sale, wouldn't it seem more significant (from a market psychology viewpoint) that there are many sellers than that there was one buyer? I'm just fishing here; just trying to understand (a) how others interpret observed trading activity, and (b) how I think I should interpret observed trading activity... I have no convictions (yet). [And, exactly why don't we assume there was one seller with multiple buyers? Sorry if I'm being dense...] On the other hand, I certainly understand that one tries to corroborate information gained from one source by comparing it to information gained from another source. If multiple sources agree, one tends to accept the information as true. If they disagree, one tends to reject the information as false/erroneous. Rob