TD Waterhouse names the most traded UK-listed stocks for the morning of Tuesday 30 August 2011.

Top ten trades
Tuesday 30 August 2011 (until noon)
Source: TD Waterhouse

TD Waterhouse view:

In contrast to last week’s customer trading activity, sells outweigh buys by 1.25:1 this morning with banking and mining stocks leading a stronger morning for the FTSE 100.

'After closing at 5,129.92 on Friday, the FTSE 100 opended the morning up at 5,228.99 following gains in other global markets markets yesterday.

'Banking stocks helped to lift the index and customers opted to take advantage of the gains, making Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and RBS their top three sells and accounting  for over half (56 per cent) of the top ten sells for the morning.'

BUY
1. Lloyds Banking Group, 20.6 per cent
2. Barclays, 18.8 per cent
3. Royal Bank of Scotland Group, 16.2 per cent
4. Gulf Keystone Petroleum, 13 per cent
5. Aviva, 9.3 per cent
6. Vodafone Group, 5.9 per cent
7. BP, 5.1 per cent
8. Tesco, 4.3 per cent
9= Petro Matad, 3.4 per cent
9= Petroceltic International, 3.4 per cent

SELL
1. Barclays, 23.5 per cent
2. Lloyds Banking Group, 20 per cent
3. Royal Bank of Scotland Group, 12.5 per cent
4. Gulf Keystone Petroleum, 11.7 per cent
5. Aviva, 6.8 per cent
6. Xstrata, 6.3 per cent
7. BP, 5.5 per cent
8. Kazakhmys, 4.9 per cent
9. National Grid, 4.8 per cent
10. Baobab Resources, 4 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. 

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