Jeff Margolin, Vice President of First Trust Portfolios and Dan Waldron, Vice President New Product Development,
Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
at NASDAQ's MarketSite
in New York City.

First Trust Advisors

Jeff Margolin, Vice President of First Trust Portfolios and Dan Waldron, Vice President New Product Development preside over the opening bell to celebrate two new First Trust ETFs based on Nasdaq indexes and listed on Nasdaq. First Trust Nasdaq-100 Equal Weight ETF/Nasdaq-100 Tech ETF.

The First Trust NASDAQ-100 Equal Weight Index Fund (NASDAQ: QQEW) is an exchange-traded fund designed to replicate the holdings and weightings of the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index, an equal weighted version of the NASDAQ-100 Index which includes 100 of the largest non-financial securities listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market based on market capitalization.

The First Trust NASDAQ-100 Technology Index Fund (NASDAQ: QTEC) is an exchange-traded fund designed to replicate the holdings and weightings of the NASDAQ-100 Technology Sector Index, an equal weighted index based on the securities of the NASDAQ-100 Index that are classified as Technology according to the Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) classification system.

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