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Schools Sharemarket Game

Access a wide range of resources to use in your classroom 

Save the date for Game 1, 2026

Registrations will open on 12 February. Trading will run for 10 weeks from 12 March to 21 May.

Meet the winners of Game 2, 2025

We asked all of the top participants to share their strategies with us and here’s what they had to say - Read newsletter
 

Welcome to the ASX Schools Sharemarket Game, where the exciting world of the sharemarket comes to life right in your classroom!

In this online game, students have the opportunity to develop their knowledge of the sharemarket, research companies, and discover the importance of wise investment decisions.

They'll gain valuable insight into economic and world events, igniting their curiosity and setting them on a path towards understanding the world of investing.

Getting started guide for teachers

How the Game works

How to register and trouble-shooting tips

How to set up your students

Game rules

Quick start lessons

Curriculum aligned, skill-based lessons

Teacher testimonials

More resources

Schools Game news

FAQs

How the Game works

Each syndicate starts with a virtual cash amount of $50,000 and has access to 300 ASX-listed companies, 60 ETFs, and 5 LICs. Over the course of 10 weeks, they'll make strategic trading decisions based on real-time market conditions, complete with live prices and brokerage fees. They can place orders to buy or sell shares any time the market is open.

Students can pick stocks and compete against their classmates and other schools, with the chance to win real cash prizes for their syndicates at state and national levels.

Overall, by participating in the ASX Schools Sharemarket Game, your students will develop valuable life, finance, maths, business & economics skills. They can participate individually or form a group with their classmates, fostering collaboration and friendly competition. Check out some important rules your students need to be aware of. 

Increased cash prize pool 

First Prize Second PrizeThird Prize State Prizes
$1,000$750$500$500

How to register

Only teachers can register for the Game. According to the Game rules, accounts from student registering as teachers will be suspended. Students should contact a teacher to sign them up.

  1. Go to www.asx.com.au.
  2. Select Login (top right hand side).
  3. If you are new to the Game and not an Investor Portal user, select ‘Join Now' and follow the steps to create a new account.
  4. If you are a previous Investor Portal user, log in with your username and password.
  5. Once you have logged in to your Investor Portal account, click on the Schools Sharemarket Game link from your Avatar drop down menu and complete the Schools Game registration form.
  6. Once registered as a teacher, you can then add your students.

Note: Once registered, you should continue accessing the Game via your Investor Portal account which should direct you to the teacher login link: 
https://game.asx.com.au/game/teacher/school/2025-2
 

Trouble-shooting tips

How to add your students and create syndicates

In this short video, the Game's digital tutor explains the steps Teachers have to follow to add their students to the Game and to manage syndicates.

You can also check the Getting started guide for teachers which has step by step instructions on how to use all the Game features. 

 

Important Game rules you need to be aware of:

Quick start lessons and Game video tutorials for students

Help your students find their way around the Game with these quick start lessons.

"How to" videos

 

Curriculum aligned, skill-based lessons and learning outcomes

These learning resources were designed with busy teachers in mind, linking to several subject areas Australia-wide. All materials are easy to modify and include a glossary and assessment task with embedded links to general capabilities such as literacy and numeracy, and to cross-curriculum areas, with content that includes environmental issues and a celebration of Indigenous involvement with the ASX. 

To explore how these engaging, skill-based, curriculum mapped learning materials can help busy teachers Australia-wide, we spoke to Roset Khair, the award-winning teacher who developed the lessons.

She highlights that her main focus was to make it easy for educators to see the links to their subject areas, saving them a lot of time planning.

Roset has been teaching financial literacy for over 10 years. She runs numerous teacher training courses around assessment, literacy, creative and project-based learning as a Director of the professional association for teachers in her subject areas in NSW.

Teacher's notes - all lessons combined

Download all lessons' learning outcomes in one go. 

PDF - 1MB
Glossary

Explains the metalanguage used in investing

DOCS - 174KB

Assessment task

Teachers share their experience

"The Sharemarket Game gives the boys a real-life experience of trading, further develops their financial literacy and opens discussions with peers, teachers and parents. The ASX has sparked life-long learning and passion in the share market and has provided the boys with knowledge on responsible economic investing that they will carry with them to their adult years."

Mr. Hughes, Knox Grammar School, NSW

"A sense of friendly competition, combined with real-world relevance, kept engagement strong throughout the Game. Ultimately, the Game transformed abstract concepts about saving, investing, and financial risk-taking into real, engaging experiences that built long-term financial capability and confidence."

Mr. Purcell, St Bedes College, VIC

"Although the Game isn’t part of our formal assessment, students are given some class time to engage with it and are encouraged to continue exploring it independently. The videos & worksheets on the ASX website were very useful and helped students navigate the platform and understand key investment terms."

Mrs. Milne, Nambour State High School, QLD

Podcast series: Investing advice for my teenage self

In this new podcast series your students will hear from investment experts who share their experiences on how they got involved in investing, what they were like as teenagers and what they wish they knew about investing now that they are older and wiser. 

We hope that this content will spark their curiosity to continue their investment journey as they start learning about the sharemarket, how to invest and the different types of investments. Watch the series on YouTube.

PODCAST | SCHOOLS GAME

After years of being confused and feeling frustrated about her own finance situation, Ladies Finance Club founder, Molly Benjamin, wanted to create events, workshops and courses that didn’t make you want to hit snoozeville or cry …or both. Hear more about her journey, how she got into investing and how she is helping younger investors get started and learning about investing. Listening time 12:28

PODCAST | SCHOOLS GAME

In this episode Chris Brycki, Founder & CEO of Stockspot, a fast growing digital investment advice (robo-advice) helping thousands of Australians manage their money smarter, shares how he managed to win the Schools Sharemarket Game when he was in year 8 and how his father taught him what he thought as a kid were very cool concepts which encouraged him to start researching straight away. Listening time 20:39

PODCAST | SCHOOLS GAME

Gemma Dale, Director of SMSF and Investor Behaviour at nabtrade, brings a wealth of knowledge to this not be missed episode. Hear about her experiences as a teenager learning about investing and how today’s investors of the future can take advantage of the vast information that is freely available. Listening time 16:48

PODCAST | SCHOOLS GAME

Chloe M, a passionate teen investor who started the Mentors Connect Podcast to connect other young people with inspiring mentors. Her interest in investing started in math class when she played the Schools Sharemarket Game and in this episode, she shares how it has helped her to explore the world of investing and to use the knowledge to start her investment journey. Listening time 13:55

PODCAST | SCHOOLS GAME

With more than 20 years' experience in the finance industry having worked in governance and finance, Rachel Waterhouse is the CEO of the Australian Shareholders' Association and today she shares how she tried to extend herself by doing Economics in high school and reading the Australian Financial Review, and even though she wasn’t able to understand everything, she kept on reading which helped her grow into being an investor in the future. Listening time 10:18

PODCAST | SCHOOLS GAME

Investing wasn't something that came naturally to Alec Renehan, co-founder of Equity Mates Media, his parents never learned about investing in the share market and he never learned about it in school. In this episode he shares how he finally got into investing when he was at Uni and started seeing the opportunities. He explains that there is a real power in starting early and giving your money more time to compound in the market. Listening time 13:02

PODCAST | SCHOOLS GAME

In this episode we chat with Ryan Nindra, Chairman of University Network for Investing & Trading (UNIT). He leads a team of board members in providing free financial education for students and highlights how active they are in a number of universities across Australia, offering opportunities for university students to continue learning about investing. He also shares his own journey into becoming an investor which started, as for many others, by playing the ASX Schools Game. Listening time 12:04

PODCAST | SCHOOLS GAME

Responsible for the admission of exchange-traded products, warrants and mFunds at ASX, Martin Dinh is a great source of knowledge in the Investment Products world. In this podcast he shares how his passion for basketball got him into investing. He explains the similarities between managing fantasy basketball NBA players and a potential portfolio of companies as both rely on metrics, to assign value and predict future performance. Listening time 16:53

6 Short videos featuring previous winner - Chris Brycki 

Use this series of six short videos with your students. Featuring three-time winner of the schools game and CEO of Stockspot - Chris Brycki - sharing his insights and ideas on how to play the Game. 

Watch the series on Youtube

Chris Brycki

Classroom posters 

Order printed posters

Want to order printed posters? Email us with the following details to us and we will mail some posters to you:

  • Teacher name
  • School name
  • Mailing address

Only available for Australian-based schools. 

S&P/ASX200 All Ords poster

Download the ASX All Ords poster showing the performance of the S&P/ASX 200 and featuring key events from the early 90s to 2024. 

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Sharemarket Game poster

Brighten up your classroom with a Schools Sharemarket Game poster.

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Merit certificates

Present your students with a certificate of participation in the Game. This editable version allows you to add all the details directly on the PDF.

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