The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), together with brokers, will organize “SET-TFEX Online Investor Fair 2012” on July 26-29, to encourage and expand trading via the Internet and smartphone. This underlines SET’s commitment to match the right financial opportunities for investors.
SET has continued to develop investment channels to provide increased ease of access in trading of securities and derivatives with speed, precision, and safety, as well as for online information monitoring. These moves have resulted in an increase of online trading in term of both numbers of investors and valuations.
At the end of June, there were 387,182 accounts of online investors, representing to 52 percent of the total retail investors’ trading. Online retail investors are growing, currently accounting for 50 percent of the total retail investors’ trading value.
“To utilize this access, investors must know the methodology and understand its mechanism clearly. Therefore, SET will hold ‘SET-TFEX Online Investor Fair 2012’ to inform investors about online trading which also helps reduce trading costs,” said SET Chief Marketing Officer Pakorn Peetathawatchai.
In the four-day event held at Central World Plaza, Bangkok, investors will get instruction on online trading, and find out how Streaming Pro works, and Settrade Streaming, which is real-time trading program of stocks and derivatives for PC, iPhone, iPad. The program will be available for android smartphone soon. Moreover, intensive seminars of equities and online investment technique will be provided by 21 brokers, meanwhile SET will also introduce new application for online trading too.
For more information, please visit www.set.or.th/onlineinvestor