AboveTrade.com to Deliver Investment Advice to SINA.com Users.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2000

AboveTrade.com, a leading online source for personalized investment-advice tools, announced today a strategic alliance with SINA.com, a leading Internet destination for Chinese communities worldwide.

Under this agreement, AboveTrade of San Mateo, a registered investment advisor, will include its custom stock analysis and strategy tools on SINA.com's financial pages, giving prominent access to AboveTrade' s objective investment advice on one of the Internet's most highly trafficked sites. As of February, SINA.com averaged over 16 million page views per day.

SINA.com will feature several components of AboveTrade's investment advice toolkit. Included will be a search tool which generates lists of daily Hot Stock Leads consisting of stocks with emerging upward trends. Also included will be AboveTrade's Quick Stock Advice tool, a feature that delivers instant buy, sell or hold recommendations for thousands of securities trading in on major U.S. markets.

"AboveTrade is committed to providing individual investors around the world with customizable analysis tools that will help them make smarter trading decisions," said Co-Founder and Vice President of Business Development Mark Moeller. "Our partnership with SINA.com marks the beginning of our expansion into the international marketplace and instantly gives SINA.com's millions of daily visitors an objective source of stock advice."

"AboveTrade's stock-analysis tools are extremely straightforward and will deliver immediate value to our users," said Hurst Lin, U.S. general manager and vice president of business development at SINA.com. "SINA.com's finance page currently offers colorful and diverse content, providing the latest finance news, Chinese CBS MarketWatch news, analysis of the U.S. stock market's performance for the past 30 days, extensive coverage of the market situation in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and updates on personalized portfolios comprising of stocks in the U.S. and the Greater China markets. Together with AboveTrade, we will help our visitors make wiser and more timely trading decisions."

AboveTrade's technology employs an analytical methodology called trend following which identifies emerging statistical trends and upward or downward momentum in a stock's price. The nonbiased analysis tools are easy to use and allow users to create custom trade strategies according to their preferences. A unique backtesting feature allows users to validate a strategy's effectiveness, and easy-to-read charts show a strategy's historical buy and sell points and performance.

About AboveTrade.com

Launched in December 1999, AboveTrade.com (http://www.abovetrade.com) has rapidly become one of the Internet's leading financial services sites. The company provides statistical-modeling technology that offers daily analyses on thousands of U.S. securities. Users can build customizable trade strategies for specific stocks, leverage strategies developed by other members and receive email alerts whenever stocks listed in their portfolios need attention. AboveTrade provides analysis on, and trade strategies for, thousands of companies. For example, its leading one-year strategy for Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO) has returned nearly double what a buy-and-hold strategy would have returned. Similarly, leading strategies for Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL) and Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO) have all returned significantly more than buy and hold for the previous year.

To learn more about AboveTrade.com, visit http://www.abovetrade.com or e-mail: [e-mail].

About SINA.com

SINA.com is a leading Internet destination network for Chinese communities worldwide, offering online news, entertainment, community and commerce. SINA.com offers a Chinese language network of four localized web sites that are produced and updated daily by local teams in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and North America. Voted number one by China Internet users in both the December 1999 and June 1999 semi-annual surveys conducted by the China Internet Network Information Centre, or CNNIC, SINA.com is a popular Internet portal for the world's largest population group. As of February 2000, SINA.com had approximately 16.6 million average daily page views and 3.1 million registered users.

To learn more about SINA.com, visit the company's websites at www.sina.com, www.sina.com.cn, www.sina.com.hk, www.sina.com.tw, or the English-language demo site at www.sina.com/eng.