Top ten trades
Tuesday 5 April 2011 (until noon)
Source: TD Waterhouse

TD Waterhouse view:

'Main trading activity by TD customers has focused on Barclays this morning, which has moved 18 places to become our customer’s top buy, accounting for just under a quarter (24.6 per cent) of the top ten buys.

'Barclay’s stock fell from last night’s close of 289.01 to 282.65 by midday today after a report in the Financial Times indicated that the bank may be looking to increase risk to boost probability in the next three year’s. However the bank has been quick to deny this and quoted in various articles as saying, "The suggestion that we are looking to increase our risk profile is fiction".'

BUY
1. Barclays, 24.6 per cent
2. Lloyds Banking Group, 15.5 per cent
3. Vodafone Group, 11.2 per cent
4. Range Resources, 8.6 per cent
5. Matra Petroleum, 8.4 per cent
6. Sound Oil, 6.8 per cent
7. Caza Oil & Gas, 6.6 per cent
8. BP 6.5 per cent
9. Xcite Energy, 6.1 per cent
10. Thor Mining, 5.7 per cent

SELL
1. Range Resources, 12.6 per cent
2= Sound Oil, 12.1 per cent
2= Lloyds Banking Group, 12.1 per cent
4. Gulf Keystone Petroleum, 11.4 per cent
5. Rockhopper Exploration, 11.2 per cent
6. Thor Mining, 10.7 per cent
7. BP, 8.5 per cent
8. Royal Bank of Scotland Group, 7.5 per cent
9. Xstrata, 7.3 per cent
10. Xcite Energy, 6.6 per cent

The Top Ten Trades should not be taken as a recommendation to buy or sell any particular bond or stock, and it is not intended to offer any form of advice. Instead it is simply an indication of the general buying and selling trends amongst some TD Waterhouse customers, observed during the period stated.