Lycos Finance Launches Industry-Leading Premium Subscription Charting and Analysis Tool

Business Wire, Nov 14, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2001

New Service Combines Quote.com's QCharts with

Reuters's Equis MetaStock Pro

Terra Lycos (NASDAQ: TRLY and Madrid Exchange: TRR), the largest global Internet network, today announced a premium subscription service that combines real-time streaming charts and analytics of QCharts, the Ultimate Trading Platform, with the powerful analytics of Equis's award-winning MetaStock program. This combination of two category-leaders is offered at an unprecedented price of $199.95 per month. This new monthly subscription service includes full access to MetaStock Pro 7.2, and streaming real-time data through QCharts, one of the most comprehensive real-time data subscriptions ever offered. The subscription package includes real-time data on all major exchanges(a), indices, S&P Mini and currency futures as well as streaming delayed data on all exchanges.(b)

"This new premium service is a great addition to our portfolio of successful subscription services at Terra Lycos, and further delivers on our corporate strategy of transitioning users from free services to higher value paid services," said Mark Stoever, vice president of media for Terra Lycos U.S. "Combining MetaStock with our cutting-edge QCharts system will give current and new subscribers a new suite of trading and analytical services that spans time horizons--from historical analysis to streaming tic-by-tic moves in today's volatile markets. It makes trading easier for subscribers."

"This agreement opens up the analysis capabilities of MetaStock to a whole new group of today's active traders. Bringing MetaStock together with the Internet's largest provider of streaming quotes creates an effective formula for investing success," said Allan McNichol, president and CEO of the Reuters company, Equis International, Inc., creators of MetaStock.

QCharts / MetaStock Pro subscribers can perform serious market analysis on stocks, bonds, commodities, mutual funds, indices, currencies, and more. There's virtually no limit to the number of securities subscribers can track using QCharts' extraordinarily fast streaming real-time platform.

QCharts, from Lycos Finance's Quote.com, is one of the leading streaming real-time trading platforms. It offers fast, flexible, reliable real-time data with streaming charts, portfolios, news, research and analysis, delivered directly to subscribers over the Internet, bypassing the World Wide Web. It's lightning fast. With QCharts, subscribers can open multiple charts and customize their portfolios with an unlimited number of symbols that update in real-time. Although QCharts is delivered in real-time, it is not stored on subscribers' computers, and therefore there's no data maintenance hassle for subscribers, eliminating disk space storage issues.

Real-time traders will appreciate the advanced technical analysis capabilities of QCharts/MetaStock Pro with its additional built-in power to handle real-time data. Subscribers can pull up charts by the day, hour, minute or tick and perform advanced real-time analytics on that data.

QCharts/MetaStock Pro offers an exclusive combination of tools designed to help traders increase profitability while decreasing risk. Its power tools include: The System Tester, which allows users to back test historical data before risking their money, The Explorer(TM) that scans thousands of securities to find the winners, The Expert Advisor(TM) that offers built-in tutoring from 24 top trading experts, Pager and Email Alerts, 26 ultra reliable Performance Systems(TM), a built-in Web Browser, Online Trading Capability, and over 120 of the most proven, profitable indicators. In addition, users have the option to create their own indicators and systems within MetaStock.

About Terra Lycos

Terra Lycos is a global Internet network operating in 43 countries in 20 languages, reaching 103 million unique monthly visitors worldwide. Created by the combination of Terra Networks, S.A. and Lycos, Inc., in October 2000, Terra Lycos is one of the most popular Internet networks in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and is the largest Internet access provider in Spain and Latin America. The Terra Lycos network of sites includes Lycos.com, Terra.com, Angelfire.com, ATuHora.com, Gamesville.com, HotBot.com, Invertia.com, Lycos Zone, Matchmaker.com, Quote.com, Rumbo.com, Sonique, Tripod.com, RagingBull.com and Wired News (Wired.com). The company's headquarters are in Barcelona and it has major offices in Boston, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Miami, Monterrey and Sao Paulo among others. It is listed on the Madrid stock exchange (TRR) and on the Nasdaq electronic market (TRLY). For more information, please visit our corporate Web site at http://www.terralycos.com.

About Equis International, Inc.

Equis International, Inc. develops and markets MetaStock, award-winning investment charting and analysis software for individual investors, traders, stockbrokers, money managers, and professional analysts. 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.equis.com.