The stock exchange announced today (18) the change in the natural number of listed stocks trading in the first quarter. Taiwan stocks were volatile, and the first quarter plummeted 525 points, which also forced the big households to flee for their lives. It hit a new low in the next five quarters. However, retail investors bucked the trend and rushed in, and the number of trading accounts hit the second highest in a single quarter in history.
According to the statistics of the Stock Exchange, the number of natural persons (large households) with a transaction value of more than 500 million yuan in the first quarter of this year was 2,799, a decrease of 992 from the fourth quarter of last year; households) had 21,926 persons, a decrease of 8,537 persons compared with the fourth quarter of last year; the number of natural persons whose transaction value was below 100 million yuan was 4,336,221 persons, an increase of 215,993 persons over the fourth quarter of last year.
At the same time, the regular fixed investment amount, which also represents the retail investor indicator, exploded to 6.518 billion yuan in March, not only a surge of 74% compared with 3.743 billion yuan in February, but also continued to rewrite the record high.
The turnover ratio of transaction volume in March also increased from 8.8% in February to 13.06%; the transaction value in March accounted for 39.22%, a slight increase from 38.62% in February; the average daily number of households in March was 120,028 , also an increase of 3,969 from 116,059 in February.
It can be seen from the figures that the number of large and medium-sized traders has dropped sharply, but the large number of retail investors has entered the market, resulting in a mess of chips, which has become a stumbling block for Taiwan stocks to recover.
In addition, in the first quarter, natural persons accounted for 61.49% of the total transaction value of the centralized market, foreign investors accounted for 28.59%, and domestic legal persons accounted for 9.92%. Compared with the fourth quarter of last year, natural persons accounted for 65.78%, foreign investors 26.34%, and domestic legal persons 7.88%. In the first quarter, the proportion of natural persons decreased, while the proportion of foreign and local legal persons increased.
In the single month part of March this year, foreign investment accounted for 28.48% of the transaction value, a slight decrease from 28.68% in February; the proportion of natural person transaction value in March was 62.28%, a slight increase from 61.55% in February.
