TD Direct Investing names the UK's most traded UK-listed companies for Wednesday 21 December (until noon).

Top ten trades
Wednesday 21 December (until noon)
Source: TD Direct Investing

TD Direct Investing View:

'Today’s buy / sell ratio = (approx.) 1 : 1.25 with sells edging ahead of the buys today.
Royal Dutch Shell enters the top ten buys accounting for 16.4% after saying yesterday that a rig will stay shut for weeks after spilling 319 barrels of drilling fluid into the Gulf of Mexico. Blinkx Plc accounts for 6.5% and 8% of the top ten buys and sells respectively after announcing a partnership with Everwell TV, the video search technology group.'

BUY

1. Gulf Keystone Petroleum, 19.4 per cent
2. Royal Dutch Shell, 16.4 per cent
3. Lloyds Banking, 13.3 per cent
4. Royal Bank of Scotland, 10.2 per cent
5. Range Resources, 9.3 per cent
6. Barclays, 9.0 per cent
7. Blinkx, 6.5 per cent
8. Xcite Energy, 6.2 per cent
9. Aviva, 5.2 per cent
10. Yell Group, 4.6 per cent

SELL

1. Lloyds Banking, 24.8 per cent
2. Royal Bank of Scotland, 19.8 per cent
3. Barclays, 17.6 per cent
4. Gulf Keystone Petroleum, 9.4 per cent
5. Blinkx, 8.0 per cent
6. Range Resources, 6.7 per cent
7=Xcite Energy, 3.9 per cent
7=Aviva, 3.9 per cent
9. RSA Insurance, 3.1 per cent
10. Sound Oil, 2.9 per cent

The Top Ten Buys and Sells 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 Direct Investing customers, observed during the period stated.