Vietnam's stock market has more than 11 million trading accounts.

According to data from the Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD), by the end of October 2025, domestic individual investors owned nearly 11.3 million securities accounts. Thus, Vietnam has completed the goal of developing individual investors in the stock market ahead of the deadline set for 2030.

Guide for investors to open a securities trading account.

In October alone, the number of domestic investor accounts increased by more than 310,000 accounts, the fifth consecutive month and the strongest increase in the past 14 months. Most of these came from individual investors; the institutional sector only increased by 155 accounts.

Since the beginning of 2025, the number of domestic investors' securities accounts has increased by more than 2 million accounts. This result reflects the strong attraction of the capital market in the context of an increasingly favorable investment environment and strengthened investor confidence when the Vietnamese stock market was officially upgraded from "frontier" to "secondary emerging", although it still needs to undergo a mid-term review in March 2026 before taking effect from September 21, 2026.

October 2025 was also a period of great volatility in the stock market. The positive impact of the upgrade news helped the VN-Index increase sharply in the first half of the month, reaching a new peak of over 1,760 points. However, profit-taking pressure later caused the index to correct to below 1,650 points by the end of the month.

Meanwhile, foreign investors continued to be a factor causing significant selling pressure. In October alone, foreign investors net sold more than VND22,000 billion on the HOSE, extending the streak of net selling for three consecutive months. Although the selling level has decreased slightly compared to the previous two months, it is still at a high level compared to the first half of the year.

Notably, despite continuous net selling, the number of foreign investor accounts in Vietnam has been steadily increasing. In October, foreign investors opened 297 new accounts, higher than the increase of 268 accounts in the previous month, including 281 individual accounts and 16 institutional accounts. By the end of October 2025, the total number of foreign investor accounts reached 49,619 accounts.

CHAU ANH

Source: https://nhandan.vn/thi-truong-chung-khoan-viet-nam-co-hon-11-trieu-tai-khoan-giao-dich-post921481.html