Characteristics of Domestic Individual Investors in Vietnam Stock Market

Individual investors in the Vietnamese stock market have many different characteristics from individual investors in stock markets in other countries, especially developed countries. Outstanding features include: (1) domestic individual investors always occupy the leading position and dominate the market; (2) the transactions of this type of investors have the potential to change the market structure; However (3) they are strongly influenced by stock market sentiment and (4) most investors are still very young, have little experience, and have limited investment and capital management knowledge. leading to major fluctuations in the market that stem from this group of investors.