Vancouver, BC - September 3, 2002 - Sloan Securities announced today that it has chosen AlphaTrade.com (OTCBB:APTD and FSE:TDR WKN 529988) as a resource for their client's trading requirements. AlphaTrade's impressive client list includes many brokerage and investment banking firms. Sloan Securities will commence immediately to offer all Sloan Securities.com clients a 7-day Free-Trial of AlphaTrade's web-based financial service E-Gate. E-Gate provides a real-time financial market data feed application that collects analyzes, processes, stores, compresses, and transmits financial content. E-Gate subscribers have access to comprehensive information on stocks, options, indices, and news including bid and ask prices, charts, research and other information for any U.S. listed or NASDAQ traded stock, all OTCBB stocks and all Canadian listed corporations.

Sloan Securities, headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA, is a leading online brokerage and investment banking company offering individual and institutional brokerage trading, international trading services, investment banking and corporate advisory services throughout the United States and internationally.

"Our clients come to us from all over the world and we were looking for an affordable trading system to service their needs, in their language. We were referred to E-Gate which we found to be available in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Greek, and Chinese. The multi-lingual system was ready to drop into place allowing us to offer it to the majority of our database right away. Since the product is in the client's native language it helps to maintain their loyalty to us," states James C. Ackerman, President of Sloan Securities Corp. www.SloanSecurities.com.

Penny Perfect, President of AlphaTrade.com notes, "Sloan is depending upon our reputation and highly experienced team to handle the seamless integration of E-Gate with Sloan's client base. They were impressed with us because we have raised the bar with the E-Gate service laying the foundation for future expanded Level II type programs. AlphaTrade is delivering an array of interactive services to Sloan's customers enabling Sloan to provide the newest and latest, most cutting edge trading programs available."

About AlphaTrade.com

AlphaTrade.com markets E-Gate, a multi-lingual high performance stock market data application for investors, day traders and financial professionals. E-Gate is a comprehensive suite of applications and trade execution systems that include streaming real-time stock quotes for 600 stocks in 10 different portfolios, 12 Level II screens, news, intraday and historical charts plus many other professional features. E-Gate provides subscribers access and trade execution to streaming, real-time financial information at less cost and greater convenience than any product on the market today. Subscribers do not need to purchase, lease or download any software. All of the financial applications are available via the Internet for a low monthly subscription price. The price for an E-Gate subscription is only $17.00 per month (exchange fees extra). A seven-day free trial is available at www.alphatrade.com/freedemo or www.alphatrade-europe.de.

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