Media Release Contact: Mike von Bertouch Managing Director BDG Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 4126 Myaree Western Australia 6960 24 January 2001 NEW STOCKMARKET ANALYSIS ASP FOR LINUX USERS A new service on the World Wide Web enables Linux users to access a full range of US stockmarket data and analysis tools via the Internet. The service, 3G, can be found at www.mytradingtool.com. It can scan the entire NASDAQ database in about 20 seconds looking for patterns in the price data or signs of upward-trending activity. 3G provides a range of analysis tools and access to data for over 9000 equities traded on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ. The user downloads a client software application which communicates with a US based server. Each time the user starts the application the client software self-checks to ensure it is the latest version. If not the current version is automatically downloaded. The advantage of ASP delivery for users is absence of software installation and upgrades, and the need to update data on a daily basis, usually required by market analysis software. Improvements to the service are delivered automatically and continuously via the web, allowing the developers to rapidly incorporate enhancements. Paul Tetley, the Technical Manager of software developers BDG Australia says users can chart stock prices, perform searches for market activity and patterns in the price data, display indicators and save their own preferences and watchlists onto the server for later retrieval. They can also read other’s comments on a stock and submit their own comments. The software was chosen as a finalist in the Business Software World 2000 competition. “We entered our first development prototype, not expecting it to fare well in its initial form, so we were quite surprised to place in the top 20” said BDG Managing Director Mike von Bertouch. The software uses Technical Analysis techniques to search and select stocks. Technical Analysis is used by stock market professionals to predict likely price movements from historical data. “3G presents well understood concepts in an easy-to-use manner” said von Bertouch. “It is a descendant of GOLDRUSH, a successful stand alone application released by the company in 1999. GOLDRUSH was one of the first applications to include pattern scanning of the price data as a standard feature and its scanning is very fast by industry standards. 3G inherits GOLDRUSH’S biggest advantage of ease of use. “The 3G service currently available is only the beginning” said von Bertouch. “BDG Australia has a very forward looking, market driven view of its service development. It is currently creating training material and advanced functionality which allows users to define their own scans and indicators. “Sophisticated options pricing and brokerage facilities are planned for later this year.” The 3G service uses the new Java WebStart product released by Sun Microsystems at the end of December 2000. “Java WebStart from Sun has enabled us to fundamentally improve delivery of capability to our customers” said Tetley, “WebStart allows the company to offer products to the Linux community that would previously not have been contemplated. “The cross-platform nature of Java allows us to concentrate on quality of service, not developing to meet the specific needs of particular platforms” he said. 3G is currently one of the few products available for Linux that is not a software development tool. It was developed by the team at BDG Australia, a company based in Perth, Western Australia. Ends More Information: Mike von Bertouch Phone: +618 9258 7700 Fax: +618 9258 7711 Email: mike@bdg.com.au