KLSE TRADE STATISTICS: LOCAL VS FOREIGN October 2009

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=txKJ-CJ_m_KD-Agbe6RtG5g&output=html

http://www.klse.com.my/website/bm/market_information/market_statistics/equities/downloads/trading_participation_investor2009.pdf


Observations:

The average price per unit volume of shares for the foreign institutions was MR 3.63; that for the local institution was MR 3.33.

The local retail investors were mostly into penny shares. The average value per unit volume traded was MR 0.66.

Half the volume of shares (49.96%) traded in October were generated by local retail investors.

Foreign Institutions were net buyers in October.

Local Institutions were net sellers in October.

No net change in value in trades of local retail investors. However, the volume of shares bought were higher than those sold.

The local retail investors were selling higher priced shares to buy into lower priced shares in October.

Based on value of shares traded, the Local Institutional funds were the biggest players in the local KLSE (43.69%).