Alternatives to the ASX

So last night I was at the Melbourne Cleantech Network Pitch session and found myself talking to the MD of SIM VSE - an alternative to the ASX with a focus on Cleantech. As I am not in the finance sector, I shouldn't have been, but I was surprised to know that, including the Chi-X there are 5 stock exchanges which you can list on within Australia, I had a quick look for info and I think this is it.

ASX     2000+ listings    $1,200,000 M
NSX        100+ listings   $1,000 M+
SIM VSE    3 listings      $7 M
APX no current listings


Chi-X    250 listings        $400 M

>>from what I understand Chi-X works a little differently, allowing traders to buy and sell shares in companies that are listed on the ASX. I'm unsure if they list companies exclusively. 

From a quick scan, the potential candidates for addition to my CEI would be these guys:

VSE:GTS - bundle solar cells
VSE:UPE - wind power on cars....

It seems unlikely that the VSE would be a highly liquid market, so the fact that these shares aren't available via google finance or yahoo finance may not be such a problem. As you've noticed, I have a much bigger problem investing time into this project in order to get the market stats updated regularly.

Google Trends - Clean Energy

I love the tools that google provides for analysis so it is a surprise that I haven't done a check for the clean-energy index. Well, now I have, see below for the results - Solar comes in an easy first with Wind and Geothermal coming equally below that and everything else falls into the also-ran category.

With google trends, it is also interesting to compare your search with something as a benchmark - iphone is a good one - You can probably do it by clicking below, but I can assure you that nothing in the clean energy world is even a blip compared with the iphone. Well done Apple.