Vancouver, B.C., July 8th, 1999. AlphaTrade.com will officially release E-Gate, the world's only interactive and fully customizable financial portal, on July 9th at 1:30 p.m. PST at our web-site www.alphatrade.com An article written by Richard Comerford, Senior Editor at IEEE is now available for review at the following URL; http://www.institute.ieee.org/webwatch/index.html. The IEEE, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a worldwide technical, professional, educational and geographic organization that promotes networking, information sharing and leadership among its 330,000 members in 150 countries.

Yesterday, another breakthrough in our development, now allows the user to have their own workspace operating between the browser and the desktop. With a simple right or left mouse click, each user will now be able to customize our components within any licensed site, even your favorite stock-trading site. No longer will your workspace disappear when you surf the Internet, it will simply "Float" above it. Thus maintaining the functionality of the site beneath it.

E-Gate will illustrate to the financial community just how easy it can be to use and implement our technology into their own web-sites. Victor Cardenas, President of AlphaTrade states, "there is nothing like this anywhere on the Internet. It is certainly exciting times for a company as young as ours. AlphaTrade's browser technology can provide any company in the financial community an extremely fast implementation time if they choose to license our technology to dramatically enhance their web sites therefore increasing the value to their clients. "

AlphaTrade can literally change any web-site immediately into a web-site with more functionality and fully customizable by the user. Our thin-client applets can merge with any known technology existing on the net.

About AlphaTrade
AlphaTrade.com (OTCBB: EBNK) is an Internet-based company developing "Web-to-desktop" convergence technologies. The AlphaWare line of applications designed by AlphaTrade will offer computer users endless business and personal choices all delivered via a nimble, thin client platform in the browser.

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