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ValueForum.com Launches Portal for Energy Investors, Powered by Ticker Technologies Inc.

NEW YORK, Sep. 20 /BusinessWire/ -- BNK Invest, Inc. (BNK), a premier provider of targeted online investment communities, announces the launch of its portal for energy investors called energy.valueforum.com (at http://energy.valueforum.com/). The site is a portal into the ValueForum.com experience, allowing pure energy investors to read only messages related to the sector, review stock ratings and analysis solely related to energy, and maintain a more focused browsing experience.

Adam Menzel, the company's COO, stated, "The new Energy Portal will add value to our growing community, helping to attract niche energy investors to the membership base. Samples of the topics that are covered on energy.valueforum.com include Canadian Royalty Trusts, Oil Sands companies, Refiners, Utilities, Coal companies, Junior Canadians, Natural Gas, Oil and Gas companies and Drilling companies."

"Additionally," Menzel added, "the introduction of the energy.valueforum.com portal helps to add valuable content to the main valueforum.com site. Messages posted and stock ratings created on energy.valueforum.com will also appear on valueforum.com and vice versa."

The energy sector is already an actively discussed topic on ValueForum with over 2600 messages posted so far in September. Some actively rated energy stocks on valueforum.com include Fording Canadian Coal Trust (NYSE:FDG) currently with 66 member ratings, Acclaim Energy Trust Units (OTC:ACNJF) with 30 member ratings, Peyto Energy Trust Units (OTC:PEYUF) with 20 member ratings, Primewest Energy Trust Units (NYSE:PWI) with 12 member ratings, Ultra Petroleum Corporation (AMEX:UPL) with 11 member ratings, Paramount Energy Trust (OTC:PMGYF) with 11 member ratings, Enerplus Resources Fund Trust Units (NYSE:ERF) with 10 member ratings, San Juan Basin Royalty Trust (NYSE:SJT) with 9 member ratings, Daylight Energy Trust (OTC:DAYFF) with 9 member ratings, Harvest Energy Trust (OTC:HVEGF) with 9 member ratings, Telephone Offshore Trust (NASD: TELOZ) with 8 member ratings, and BP Plc (NYSE:BP) with 4 member ratings.

As a special incentive coinciding with the launch of http://energy.valueforum.com/, we will be offering the following promotion:

New members that sign up using the promotional code: "energy2005" on or before September 30

New members that sign up using the promotional code: "energy2005" on or before October 31

New members that sign up using the promotional code: "energy2005" on or before November 30

About BNK Invest, Inc.

BNK Invest, Inc. owns online properties that focus on serving specific communities of investors. The Company's newest site, ValueForum.com, is the third online property to be launched by BNK, following BankInvestor.com in 1998 and BDCinvestor.com in 2002. ValueForum.com is a subscription-based site, with a 24-hour trial Pass offered at $4.99, a 6-Month Pass at $89.99, and a full 12-Month Pass at $149.99.

About Ticker Technologies, Inc.

ValueForum.com is powered by Ticker Technologies Inc. (TTI). TTI's mission is to be the premier provider of Internet software applications that integrate market-related and other content into web and Intranet sites worldwide. The Company achieves its mission by delivering turn-key outsourcing solutions that filter aggregated information and present it in innovative ways. The most successful products launched by the company have been the Ticker product line, and customizable Stock Charts. These products and the company's newest solutions provide value-added offerings for their clients.

TTI powers its products with a fleet of Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) PowerEdge servers running the RedHat (NASDAQ:RHAT) Linux operating system. TTI's server infrastructure is located at NTT's (NYSE:NTT) Manhattan data center.

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