As the daily trading activity of Foreign Institutional Investors (FINI), including net buying and net selling of individual, is readily available from the public media, can accessing and acting on this data provide any real opportunity for local individual investors? To answer this questions we set out to determine whether or not a 10-stock portfolio designed to shadow FINI investor activity over one, two and three months could outperform the market as measured by the Taiwan 50 Index. The results indicate that a portfolio made up of the top-10 net bought stocks by FINI does not exhibit spectacular market beating returns on a one, two or three month timeframe for individual investors. Thus, it seems that investors have little to gain from the FINI investment activity data. Furthermore, the study shows that there is a considerable lag between the time FINI data become available and the time that it can be mimicked. Perhaps some advantage would reveal itself if we were to extend the tracking period beyond three months, but based on the study above it appears that following in FINI’s footsteps is an ill-advised, or at best neutral, investment strategy for individual investors.