Enhanced data management capabilities including sectors and industries, a revolutionary new communication tool and the largest group of broad market indicators expand the latest full version of the premier trading software.

Salt Lake City, UT, March 22, 2004 - MetaStock 9.0, a full-version upgrade of the award-winning software for charting and analysis of all types of instruments, is available today from Equis International (a Reuters company, NASDAQ: RTRSY).

Born from a commitment to provide traders with the most technologically advanced product, MetaStock 9.0 is the latest evolution in the award-winning MetaStock family of products. MetaStock 9.0's numerous new features are the product of a close collaboration between a dedicated team of programmers and seasoned traders whose demands and requests ensure that MetaStock 9.0 provides a level of accuracy and precision that is simply not possible in other solutions.

"With simpler than ever data management, new broad market indicators and experts, sector analysis, and a variety of other features, MetaStock 9.0 has become easier and more powerful than ever before.," says Equis president and CEO Allan McNichol. "One of the jewels of our new version is the new MetaStock Chat which was specifically designed to foster a stronger sense of community for our users by allowing sharing of charts, analysis and successful trading techniques. Users can even use Chat to get quick answers from our Support Team."

MetaStock 9.0 boasts enhanced data management tools including sectors and industries, the introduction of The MetaStock Community, a large number of broad market indicators and many more new features. It also contains the established [censored]nal of MetaStock trading tools found in previous versions that have garnered numerous awards, including the Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities' Readers Choice Awards of Best Analysis Software ($200 to $499 value category) for 11 consecutive years.

Innovations in Data Management

The data management system in MetaStock allows stocks to be grouped and analyzed by sector and industry. Users can analyze their stocks by Sectors and even run system tests and explorations on whole Sectors. Loading the historical data has also become effortless with a self-loading Historical Data CD organized by sectors. Combine that with MetaStock's one-click database updating and market analysis has become faster than ever before!

The MetaStock Community

The MetaStock CommunityTM is the revolutionary way for MetaStock users to interact with each other from within the MetaStock interface. Users can join pre-established chat rooms, a public or private chat room created by another user, or create their own chat room. The MetaStock Community is an innovative way to share trading ideas, formulas, MetaStock charts with traders of similar interests, as well as instantly access Equis support with your comments and questions.

Broad Market Indicators

MetaStock 9.0 boasts a large variety of broad market indicators to help you gauge the direction of the overall market, which a large majority of stocks tend to follow. MetaStock 9.0 has two types of broad market indicators, market momentum and monetary.

Other new features

MetaStock 9.0 now includes a Point and Figure Toolbox that provides 4 explorations, 4 experts, 8 indicators and 2 system tests based on the Point and Figure charting style. The system tests furnish buy and sell signals based on chart patterns such as triple tops and bottoms, triangles and more. The explorations will search for specific patterns and help create a watch list of potential pattern candidates. No other analysis package offers Point and Figure analysis like MetaStock.

Support and resistance lines can be placed manually or MetaStock 9.0 can automatically draw them on charts. This tool contains two types of indicators, long term and short term, covering resistance, support, trendline down and trendline up. In addition, it includes four Expert Advisors and four explorations. These explorations help unveil the potential trendline breakouts.

Auto Window Tiling

Now when you pull up more than one chart or open any additional window in MetaStock, all your windows will automatically tile for easy viewing.

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MetaStock still features the notable array of charting and analysis tools that have made it the favorite software of serious traders for almost 20 years. By combining MetaStock's nine charting styles and over 130 indicators and line studies individual traders can see and analyze the markets in unique ways.

MetaStock's Expert Advisor lets traders know what top investment experts have to say about their trading scenario. In addition, the Expert Advisor can be programmed to monitor charts for critical situations, and flag special conditions, among its multitude of features. MetaStock's Enhanced System Tester allows traders to set up any combination of securities and systems desired for testing (one system on one security, one system on multiple securities, multiple systems on one security, or multiple systems on multiple securities to help traders find the best trading combination). It also allows for variable placement in system-entries, exits, expanded stops, order sizes, commissions, and more. The Explorer screens, scans and ranks thousands of securities to quickly find those with the greatest profit potential based upon the user's criteria.

Pricing and Availability

MetaStock 9.0 is available in two versions. The end-of-day version is priced at U.S. $499 plus shipping and handling. The real-time version, MetaStock Professional, is priced at U.S. $1,695. Subscription versions for both end-of-day and real-time are available for low monthly fees of $59 and $199 respectively. These products can be ordered by phone at 801-265-8886 or 800-882-3040, by fax at 801-265-3999, or by e-mail at sales@equis.com. More information and online ordering are available at http://www.metastock.com.

Journalists and other qualified professionals may obtain evaluation copies by contacting Marilyn McDonald at Equis: mmcdonald@equis.com.

About Equis International

Equis International develops and markets MetaStock, award-winning investment charting and analysis software for individual investors, traders, stockbrokers, money managers, and professional analysts. The MetaStock Products include MetaStock for End-of-Day traders, MetaStock Professional for Quote.com, MetaStock Professional for eSignal and Reuters MetaStock Professional. Equis also develops an array of products for their parent company, Reuters. Equis, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, was founded in 1982. In 1996, Equis was acquired by Reuters (NASDAQ:RTRSY), the world's premier news and financial information company. Additional information about Equis and MetaStock can be found online at http://www.metastock.com.