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Mike von Bertouch
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BDG Australia Pty Ltd
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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.

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More Information:

Mike von Bertouch
Phone:           +618 9258 7700
Fax:               +618 9258 7711
Email:            mike@bdg.com.au