Beta Test Successfully completed - Subscriptions to begin November 1, 1999

Vancouver, B.C. October 27, 1999: AlphaTrade.com (OTC BB: EBNK) announced today that with the successful completion of it’s two month beta-testing revenue subscriptions will begin on November 1, 1999. Subscribers will be offered the latest technology and will have the ability to save their quotation and portfolio preferences as well as having access streaming financial information customized at their discretion. Initial subscriptions will be offered at the introductory rate of $19.99/month for real time information and $19.99/year for delayed financial information.

According to Dean Fox, Vice-President Marketing, "the Company had anticipated that approximately 20,000 people would participate in our beta-test. It is very encouraging that approximately 100,000 people participated in our test and the technology performed up to our expectations without any major problems. With this milestone behind us, AlphaTrade.com is now ready for commercial operation."

Subscribers will have the ability to sign up for service online by accessing our website on November 1, 1999 at www.alphatrade.com or at any participating sites displaying the AlphaTrade.com Remote Control Device (RCD). For a listing of these sites please visit our website. Subscribers may also register by calling our toll-free hotline at 1-877-288-7799.

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.

For further information contact: James Chan at AlphaTrade.com at 1-877-288-7799 or e-mail
james@alphatrade.com

Or in New York contact Cynthia Demonte at 212-473-3700 or e-mail cdemonte@demonte.com

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: The statements contained herein which are not historical fact are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, certain delays in testing and evaluation of products and other risks detailed from time to time in AlphaTrade's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.