MetaStock Java, MetaStock Image Replace MetaStock Online

SALT LAKE CITY, August 31, 2001 - MetaStock now offers two choices in online charting: MetaStock Java for live, interactive charts, and MetaStock Image for fast-loading, static charts.

"As we spoke with organizations that wanted charting on their web sites, we discovered a need for a choice of customizable charting programs," says Allan McNichol, president and CEO of the Reuters subsidiary Equis International, the makers of MetaStock. "As successors to our popular MetaStock Online program, we've created two new programs: MetaStock Java and MetaStock Image. The capability of each one is greater than before, and the division allows Equis to offer greater flexibility and value to companies who wish to use MetaStock's online charting."

MetaStock's Online Charting Experience

Here's how MetaStock works for online charting. Users arrive at a main page, financial page, or any page the site's owners want to use for MetaStock. The chart area shows a default chart customized for that particular web site. To get a different chart, users simply type the symbol for the security they want to see. MetaStock pulls data from any server specified by the site and then creates the new chart-either a live, interactive chart from MetaStock Java or a fast-loading, static chart from MetaStock Image, depending on which option the site owner has chosen.

Dependable Charts

MetaStock software is among the best-built, best-tested tools for analyzing price data, and the new online charting programs are no exception. They provide dependable, worry-free charts for companies to use on their web sites. Companies may choose the data that is used in their specific version of MetaStock Java and MetaStock Image. This flexibility is important when a company has an established relationship with a data provider-or when the company is a data provider itself. As long as their data is delivered in the format explained in the web integrator's kit, MetaStock can handle it. MetaStock Java and MetaStock Image also allow companies to:

• Use open, high, low, close, volume, price, or timestamp price data
  
• Chart price data on any market-stocks, commodities, options, mutual funds, indices, and more
  
• Work with more than one feed or source

Customizability

With MetaStock's new online charting choices, each company can choose what features to offer, creating the best value for its customers. Here's a sampling of a few popular features a company can include in its version of MetaStock Java or MetaStock Image:

• Compare and plot up to five securities/instruments on a chart at once with a color-coded legend.
  
• Display daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and intraday intervals.
  
• Change between Bar, Bar w/Open, Candlesticks, and Line Charts.
  
• Show volume bars and window at the bottom of chart.
  
• Control the size (height and width) of the chart.
  
• Make practically any visual change desired-colors, fonts, whatever is needed to make MetaStock Java or MetaStock Image fit any site.
  
• Let users choose from as many as 21 technical indicators and studies for analyzing their charts.
  
• To easily specify the language used in all aspects of MetaStock's display, a language file has been externalized. Many other enhancements have also been added to allow for easy localization.

Availability

MetaStock Java and MetaStock Image are available through Equis. Interested parties should call 1-800-882-3040 or 1-801-265-9996, fax 801-265-3999, or email msj@equis.com for more information.

About Equis International

Equis International, develops and markets MetaStock, award-winning investment analysis software for individual investors, traders, stockbrokers, money managers, and professional analysts. The MetaStock Family includes MetaStock Professional 7.0 for eSignal (Nasdaq: DBCC), BMI (Broadcast), and other DBC feeds, MetaStock Professional 6.52 for Reuters Terminal, MetaStock 6.52 for Windows 95 & NT (and higher), MetaStock Online at https://www.metastock.com/online.

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.