New stock trading accounts set historic monthly record By Nguyen Quy  January 7, 2021 | 08:31 am GMT+7 Investors watch price boards at a securities firm in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo by VnExpress/Huu Khoa. The number of new securities trading accounts opened by domestic individual investors surged 53 percent month-on-month to 63,243 last December, the highest monthly figure ever. In 2020, nearly 393,659 new domestic accounts were opened, up 109 percent year-on-year, the highest ever figure recorded in the country to date, according to the Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD). This took the...