More than 244,700 new trading accounts were opened during the month, lifting the cumulative total to over 12.1 million, the data showed.

Of the total, about 12.05 million accounts were held by domestic individual investors, while around 19,300 accounts belonged to domestic institutional investors.

The market also recorded more than 50,500 foreign investor accounts, including about 45,800 accounts held by foreign individuals and nearly 4,800 accounts owned by foreign institutions.

In January alone, the surge in new openings pushed the total number of securities accounts in the market to 12,116,647. By the end of 2025, Vietnam had already exceeded the target of 11 million accounts by 2030 set out in the securities market development strategy approved by the Government of Vietnam.

January 2026 marked a buoyant start for Vietnam’s stock market. After ending 2025 at a record high, the VN-Index avoided a deep correction and instead posted a strong advance early in the month before easing gradually toward the end.

By the final trading session of January, the index stood at 1,850 points, up more than 3.6% from the end of the previous year.

The performance suggested that the market adjusted quickly to global macroeconomic shifts, with capital flows spreading beyond a narrow set of stocks to a wider range of core sectors, helping to form a more sustainable upward structure.

Liquidity also improved markedly, with average matched trading value on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) reaching VND 26-28 trillion per session. Foreign investors posted their strongest net buying month in more than a year, with total net purchases exceeding VND 3.5 trillion.

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