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'Everyman's' Seat On The Exchange.


NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1998--

-- Free Internet Quote Service From Track Data to Provide Continuous

Updates Of Market Data, News, Charting and Corporate Information --

Millions of Internet users thirst for information about the stock market as evidenced by the popularity of quote server pages and electronic trading This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.
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 services. However, none of these sites are designed to support the complete information needs of active investors. Track Data Corporation, a leading provider of market data systems for institutional traders and individual investors, plans to revolutionize the marketplace by providing free dynamically-updated delayed market data over the Internet.

The official launch date for "myTrack" is May 14. It will actively keep track of 20 securities or market indexes throughout the day, and will provide unlimited quote inquiry through an easy-to-use window on the world's financial markets. Free services (O.Eng. Law) such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc.

See also: Free
 on myTrack also include advanced charting for technical analysis, a proprietary library of intraday market statistics, trade-by-trade log (also known as "time and sales") and detailed information on more than 8,000 publicly held companies.

"We've become a nation of investors and the financial markets are important to us all," said Barry Hertz, chairman of Track Data. "In the same way that browsers facilitated navigating the Internet, myTrack will monitor the financial markets for everyone. myTrack is a sophisticated and inexpensive way to invest using the same kind of market information as Wall Street's professionals use. myTrack delivers free delayed quotes, news, charting and company information in a very easy-to-use package. And since it's free, we expect hundreds of thousands to use myTrack everyday as part of their investing process."

myTrack will be generally available beginning May 14. Users who wish to participate in a Beta Test A test of new or revised hardware or software that is performed by users at their facilities under normal operating conditions. Beta testing follows alpha testing. Vendors of packaged software often offer their customers the opportunity of beta testing new releases or versions, and the  of myTrack should visit www.mytrack.com and send e-mail to mytrack@tdc.com with their name and mailing address. Download instructions, user ID and password will be provided by return e-mail. Beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the  will begin Wednesday, April 29.

myTrack will provide delayed quotes on all United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canadian and European stock, options and futures exchanges This is a list of futures exchanges. Those stock exchanges that also offer trading in futures contracts besides trading in securities are listed both here and the list of stock exchanges.  free of charge. Real-time quotes will be available for $20 per month, plus applicable fees levied by the securities exchanges. In addition to real-time quotes, myTrack users may subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day"
subscribe, take

buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company";
 a wide variety of databases and news services that support specific investment needs.

Track Data Corporation, based in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, provides real time financial market data, fundamental research, charting, and analytical services to institutional and individual investors. It also disseminates news and third-party database information from more than 100 sources worldwide. The company's main products include MarkeTrack, MarkeTrack98, Track OnLine and Dial/Data. Track Data's AIQ AIQ Analytical Instrument Qualification
AIQ Available in Quarters
AIQ Action Internet Québec
AIQ Allowance Item Quantity
AIQ Analyst Interest Queue
AIQ Algebraic Integer Quantization
 Systems division offers expert systems software, including artificial intelligence products for market timing and stock selection.

Track Data Corporation is a publicly held corporation, trading on Nasdaq's National Market System under the symbol TRAC TRAC - Text Reckoning And Compiling . Revenues for fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 1997 were approximately $47,000,000.

Track Data is headquartered at 56 Pine St., New York, N.Y. 10005, www.tdc.com

The forward looking statements included in this press release, which reflect management's best judgment based on factors currently known, involve risks and uncertainties including the successful development and market acceptance of new products and product enhancements and the other risks detailed from time to time in the company's SEC reports, including the Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K

A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information.


Form 10-K

See 10-K.
 for year ended Dec. 31, 1997. Actual results may differ materially.

Editor's Note: For more information on myTrack, users should visit the company's web site for the myTrack service at www.mytrack.com

CONTACT: Ken Lempit/Jason Kannon

Austin Lawrence Group

203/961-8888, ext. 3006/3002
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