The Stock Exchange of Thailand jumped, while other Southeast Asian stock markets ended higher on Wednesday tracking a firm finish on Wall Street.
But they posted heavy losses in October, with Singapore reporting its worst month since January 2016 as global equity markets bled trillions of dollars.
Financial markets across the globe faced a raft of negative factors, including Sino-US trade tensions, to worries about global economic growth, higher US interest rates and company earnings in the past few weeks.
The SET index climbed 30.58 points or 1.87% to close at 1,669.09, in turnover worth 54 billion baht.
The market ended firmer on the back of energy stocks, which gained on higher oil prices. However, the index posted a 5.2% drop for the month.
The biggest gainer on the index, PTT Plc, closed at its highest in more than a week. The bourse was further cushioned by data from the Bank of Thailand, which stated September trade surplus was at $1.96 billion, after a $600 million surplus in August.
The Thailand Future Fund (TFFIF) stock closed 30 satang or 3% higher to 10.30 baht.
Singaporean shares ended 1.8% firmer, but lost 7.3 % this month.
Conglomerate Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd closed up 0.9%, while lender DBS Group Holdings Ltd added 2.9% to the bourse.
Vietnam shares snapped nine sessions of declines to close 2.9% higher.
Banking sector stocks accounted for most gains, with Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) closing 6.9% higher. BIDV, Vietnam's second-biggest bank by market value, said it intends to sell 15% shares to South Korea's KEB Hana Bank.
Meanwhile, gains in the real estate sector were led by Vinhomes JSC after the property developer posted a 177% surge in third-quarter net profit.
Malaysian shares closed 1.4% firmer as sentiment was balanced on hopes that cost-saving measures will be included in the country's 2019 budget due later in the week.
The country's newly elected government, led by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, is likely to announce broad spending cuts in the budget speech scheduled on Friday.
The Philippines market rebounded from previous session's declines, underpinned by broad gains in the industrial and real estate stocks.
