/KASE, April 8, 2021/ – As previously announced, the training competition "Exchange Simulator", organized by Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), is held from April 1 to May 31, 2021.

During the first week of the competition (from April 1 to April 7), the volume of trades reached KZT532.7 mln. The average daily volume of deals for the specified period exceeded KZT103 mln.

Below is information on all concluded deals in terms of instruments for the period from April 1 to April 7, 2021:

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Ticker     Number  
           of deals Volume, tenge              
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BAST             24   4,674,999.86
CCBN            124   8,349,204.95
FFIN_or         106  32,345,445.61
GB_KZMS         227  46,037,658.55
HSBK            213  38,252,952.30
IE_FXBF          60   6,625,000.62
KCEL             91  19,543,639.41
KEGC             99  12,313,742.28
KZAP            202  44,088,309.72
KZTK            179  53,478,973.69
KZTO            242  42,547,220.82
NL_YNDX          46   6,179,999.24
RU_AFLT          57  11,762,144.90
RU_GAZP         109  14,431,956.92
RU_NLMK          44   6,281,671.22
RU_RTKM          34     441,378.08
RU_SBER         188  35,878,374.12
RU_UKFFipo      103   9,368,855.56
RU_VTBR          38   1,454,367.08
US_AAPL         111  33,404,680.30
US_BAC_         145  35,114,440.12
US_FRHC          85  18,905,727.86
US_INTC          54  13,285,068.34
US_KO__          42   4,666,175.04
US_PFE_          23   2,309,474.81
US_SPY_          76  22,202,240.57
US_XOM_          44   8,731,950.98
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Total         2,766 532,675,652.95
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The maximum number and maximum volume of deals concluded by one participant is 153 and KZT44 mln, respectively.

At the moment, 1,669 students from more than 40 different educational institutions have been registered to participate in the "Exchange Simulator" project.

The goal of the project is to improve the financial literacy of young specialists and let them acquire practical skills for acting in the stock market. Students are given the opportunity to trade instruments from the list of the first class of liquidity. Each participant at the beginning of trading is provided with a portfolio of one million tenge for management. The main task of students is to form the best portfolio, which will determine the winners of the competition.

This competition has been held by KASE group of companies since 2008.

[2021-04-08]