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Hotspot FX and Trading Technologies Launch Live Trading on TT's X_TRADER® Platform

Hotspot FX is first foreign exchange cash market available via TT

CHICAGO and WATCHUNG, NJ, November 8, 2005 — Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) and Hotspot FX, Inc. (Hotspot FX) today announced that all TT users can now trade Hotspot FX's spot foreign exchange products in futures equivalent sizes via the X_TRADER order entry platform. This arrangement marks the first cross-market extension of X_TRADER into the rapidly growing cash foreign exchange markets. Hotspot FX is linked to TT's X_TRADER platform via the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol, an open-standard protocol that is widely used in the equities industry.

"Connectivity to Hotspot FX provides X_TRADER users with direct access to the growing foreign exchange market. Now X_TRADER customers can use one screen to trade spot foreign exchange alongside contracts listed on the world's major futures exchanges. There is strong demand among our customer base for forex products, and we expect many of our users will take advantage of this new connection," said Harris Brumfield, TT's CEO.

"Futures traders use Hotspot FX to access the liquidity of the cash FX markets with the same transparent, direct market access, anonymity and instantaneous trading market structure that they enjoy trading futures," said John H. Eley, President and CEO of Hotspot FX, Inc. "We are pleased to join with TT to offer the ability for their users to trade in the Hotspot FX marketplaces using the superb and familiar functionality of the X_TRADER platform."

To trade Hotspot FX on X_TRADER, omnibus or direct accounts will be set up with Hotspot FX's clearing network. Trades executed on Hotspot FXi, Hotspot FX's institutional marketplace, are cleared through a network of top-rated clearing banks and prime brokers. Trades executed on Hotspot FX, the company's regulated platform, are cleared through its Futures Commission Merchant (FCM).

About Trading Technologies
Trading Technologies (www.tradingtechnologies.com) develops high-performance trading software for derivatives professionals, including the world's premier exchanges, money-center banks, proprietary traders, securities brokers, Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs) and other trading institutions. The company's software and services provide direct access to the world's major derivatives exchanges. Headquartered in Chicago, Trading Technologies maintains a worldwide presence with offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Sydney and Tokyo. In 2004, Trading Technologies was named the best technology company to work for in Chicago by Chicago magazine and ranked third among all Chicago area employers.

About Hotspot FX
Hotspot FX, Inc. operates the two leading spot FX marketplaces for institutional and retail market participants respectively. Both marketplaces provide anonymous, instantaneous, direct access trading on live, executable, streaming prices supplied by leading foreign exchange banks and financial institutions. Hotspot FXi placed first in the authoritative 2005 Euromoney Foreign Exchange Survey in the key categories of Speed of Execution and Straight-through-Processing and separately was named Best at Streaming Prices in Euromoney Technology Awards also in 2005. Hotspot FX provides connectivity to trade and order management systems, market data vendors and other platforms via LiveLinksm proprietary API, which supports the firm's FIX gateway as well as other connectivity protocols. Hotspot FX is headquartered in Watchung, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City, Chicago, Boston, London, Beijing and Singapore. For additional information, visit the Hotspot FX web site at www.hotspotfx.com or e-mail info@hotspotfx.com.