AlphaTrade Forms Alliance With First Brokerage Firm - Providential Securities - to Offer E-Gate.

VANCOUVER, B.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1999--

AlphaTrade.com (OTC BB: EBNK) is pleased to announce that Providential Securities with 14 offices across the United States will be offering E-Gate to their clients effective immediately. E-Gate is the world's only interactive and fully customizable financial portal. All E-Gate modules can now be accessed using a simple Remote Control access button located on Providential's corporate web site.

"This is a milestone for AlphaTrade which will generate greater market acceptance for our products. E-Gate showcases AlphaTrade's 'web-to-desktop' convergent technology since all users are able to customize each module within the browser. Effectively each user will be able to create their own 'home page' and 'float' each module out of the browser onto their desktop. This will enable each user to continue working while monitoring their investments, " stated Dean Greenwood, Vice-President of Marketing for AlphaTrade.com.

AlphaTrade has targeted the retail investor channeled through brokerage firms as the prime users for the E-Gate portal. Providential Securities will now have the capability of having their clients access E-Gate's financial applets via AlphaTrade's unique "HUB" via a remote control which is already embedded in their web site located at www.providential.net. This site will be changed to a new URL address located at www.my-etrade.com shortly.

AlphaTrade's fuzzy-logic, artificial intelligence techniques are cutting edge and provide high end financial analysis tools and applications of the kind used by professional stock traders as well as customized financial information. These capabilities allow all investors access to pertinent information necessary to make astute investment decisions.

AlphaTrade.com is an Internet based company, which has developed "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.

Providential Securities is the second largest brokerage firm in Orange County, California with two branch offices and twelve satellites across the United States. The company can be reached via Henry Fahman, Chairman of the Board, at 714-596-0244.

This press release contains statements that constitute forward statements, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward looking statements. Factors that may cause or contribute to such differences include, among other things, changes in business conditions and the economy in general and changes in Internet financial site usage. The company undertakes no obligation to update these forward looking statements for revisions or changes after the date of this press release.