FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

XPRESSTRADE INTRODUCES DYNAMIC QUOTES

FOR RETAIL FUTURES TRADERS

Chicago, IL (May 1, 2000) — XPRESSTRADE, LLC, the Internet-based futures brokerage firm headquartered in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Center, announced this morning it has launched Dynamic Quotes, a powerful new tool for self-directed, retail futures traders.

Dynamic Quotes–a Java-based, real-time, streaming, totally personalized quotewatch product–has been developed by XPRESSTRADE and is available only to XPRESSTRADE clients. All of the company's customers will receive free, unlimited access. The application allows users to select the contracts they wish to track as well as the column headings to display (Symbol, Last, Open, High, Low, Change, % Change, Tick Trend, Volume, Open Interest, Date, and Time), and and the requested data is sent to the user in a continuous, tick-by-tick stream. Dynamic Quotes also features a unique Price Alerts feature, which notifies customers by e-mail when predefined prices have been hit in the futures markets they're following. Dynamic Quotes is an exclusive XPRESSTRADE feature and is offered free-of-charge to all clients. We're convinced that it's the next best thing to standing in the trading pit. No other futures broker offers anything similar.

Marcia Cremin, XPRESSTRADE Principal, stated that "XPRESSTRADE is all about empowering the self-directed, retail futures trader, and this powerful new tool will put more information than ever before right at the fingertips of our customers. Dynamic Quotes is an exclusive XPRESSTRADE feature and is offered free-of-charge to all of our clients, regardless of the size of their accounts or trading volume. No other futures broker offers anything similar."

XPRESSTRADE places one of the futures industry's most powerful arsenal of tools and services–including 24-hour Internet trading, real-time quotes/charts/news, and marked-to-the-market account information–at the fingertips of self-directed futures and option traders, thereby empowering them and giving them unparalleled convenience and control. XPRESSTRADE has created a secure, reliable, personalized trading environment that requires no additional software and that is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from anywhere on the globe. Because of efficiencies related to its all-electronic business model, XPRESSTRADE offers one of the lowest commission rate structures in the futures industry.

XPRESSTRADE is registered with the National Futures Association as a Futures Commission Merchant and clears through ADM Investor Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Archer Daniels Midland Company, one of the world's largest processors and marketers of agricultural commodities. ADM has been a Chicago Board of Trade member since 1927 and is a Fortune 100 Company, with 1999 sales of $14.2 billion and shareholders' equity of $6.2 billion.

Contacts: Marcia E. Cremin, Philip D. Kepler, or Daniel E. O'Neil