HNX floor liquidity increased sharply in August

Information from the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) said that in August 2025, the stock market listed on HNX continued to trade actively with many fluctuations in price indexes.

The HNX-Index maintained an upward trend for more than half of the month with many consecutive sessions of increase followed by a sharp decrease before increasing again. The HNX-Index closed the last trading session of the month at 279.98 points, up 5.68% compared to the previous month. The highest point of this index reached 286.45 points on August 19, 2025.

At the same time, market liquidity also increased sharply, on average in August 2025, trading volume reached 171.1 million shares/session, up 20% and trading value increased 13.79% to VND 3,802 billion/session.

Foreign investors also actively traded listed stocks on the HNX with a 38% increase in transaction value compared to the previous month. Of which, foreign investors bought more than VND4,482 billion and sold more than VND3,978 billion, with a net purchase value of over VND504 billion.

Meanwhile, the self-trading activities of listed stocks at HNX of member securities companies increased by 7.6% compared to the previous month, with a transaction value of more than VND477 billion (accounting for more than 2% of the total market), of which this group net sold more than VND279 billion.

By the end of August 2025, the stock market listed on HNX had 304 listed enterprises with a total listing value of more than VND 166,000 billion. The market capitalization value at the end of the month's trading session reached more than VND 388,100 billion, down 1% compared to July 2025.

In the derivatives market, continuing the positive trading momentum in July 2025, derivatives continued to trade actively with strong liquidity increase in August.

The average trading volume of VN30 index futures contracts continued to increase sharply by 40.04% compared to July, reaching 336,436 contracts/session, the average trading value reached VND 59,598 billion/session (in nominal contract), an increase of 55.66%. Of which, the trading session on August 22, 2025 had the largest trading volume of the month with 555,543 contracts.

The open interest (OI) volume of the last session of the month on August 29, 2025 reached 50,418 contracts, down 13.14% compared to the previous month, of which the highest OI of the month reached 68,174 contracts in the trading session on August 20, 2025. This is also the session with the highest OI volume since the beginning of the year, surpassing the highest OI level just achieved in July.

According to the investor structure, derivatives trading by securities companies decreased from 2.2% in July 2025 to 1.9% of the total market trading volume in August 2025. Foreign investors slightly reduced VN30 futures trading compared to the previous month, the trading proportion of foreign investors accounted for 2.33% of the total market trading volume.

Source: https://baodautu.vn/thanh-khoan-san-hnx-tang-manh-trong-thang-8-d382421.html