The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether institutions of foreign capital take advantage of excellent information to trade between spot and futures market in Taiwan and, hence, to influence the basis between futures and the underlying spot asset prices. Retrospectively, the price discovery was not functioned during early establishment period of the TAIFEX. Foreign institutional investors were banned to trade futures at the TAIFEX since the introduction of TAIFEX stock index futures, although they are allowed to trade futures later. This paper derives theoretical factors that influence the basis between futures and the underlying spot asset prices, and then using this theoretical model to analyze the variation of basis. Empirical results indicate that the net long (short) position of foreign capital in the spot market, were changing from non-significance during the first sub-period into the 1% level of significance in the second sub-period in influencing the basis between futures and the underlying spot asset prices.