Using www.asx.com.au in the classroom

Use our site to learn the sharemarket basics

Start with our sharemarket lessons , which have been written especially for school students.
Once you’ve learnt the basics, experience what it’s actually like to trade shares by playing the next ASX Schools Sharemarket Game.
If you come across a sharemarket term you don’t understand check the glossary.
If you’re in your senior years at secondary school, and are keen take your learning further, take a free online sharemarket class.

Find the share price for a company.
Check the most popular shares traded on the sharemarket. Top twenty shares by value refers to securities that have had the greatest share trades in dollar terms on the previous trading day. Top twenty shares by volume refers to those securities that have had the largest number of shares traded on the previous trading day. Top twenty shares by number of trades details those shares that were found to be the most actively traded during the course of the day, in terms of the number of trades.
Trading volumes. Find out how many equity/share trades occur each day on ASX. You will note that there are other products such as Interest rate securities and options traded on ASX but if you are just interested in how many shares were traded on ASX see equity trades.
Set up a watchlist so you can monitor a particular group of shares. This service is free but you must register first and obtain a username and password.