TD Direct Investing names the UK's most traded UK-listed companies for Tuesday 3 January (until noon).

Top ten trades
Tuesday 3 January (until noon)
Source: TD Direct Investing

TD Direct Investing View:

'Today’s buy / sell ratio = (approx.) 1 : 2
Barclays is in first place and accounts for 17.3 per cent of the top ten sells after it was announced today that The European Banking Authority has estimated that the bank will have €4bn (£3.3bn) of "deferred tax assets" this year. Lloyds Banking Group takes the top spot on this morning’s buys accounting for 16.4 per cent and comes in second on the sells with 16.9 per cent, with its estimated deferred tax assets coming in at €7.3bn.'

BUY

1. Lloyds Banking, 16.4 per cent
2. Gulf Keystone Petroleum, 13.8 per cent
3. Royal Bank of Scotland, 12.4 per cent
4. Range Resources, 10.9 per cent
5. Blinkx, 9.5 per cent
6. Angel Mining, 8.7 per cent
7. Leed Petroleum, 8.4 per cent
8=Afren, 7.3 per cent
8=Vodafone Group, 7.3 per cent
10. Petroneft Resources, 5.5 per cent

SELL

1. Barclays, 17.3 per cent
2. Lloyds Banking, 16.9 per cent
3. Xstrata, 13.1 per cent
4. Afren, 11 per cent
5. Range Resources, 8.5 per cent
6. BP, 7.5 per cent
7. Gulf Keystone Petroleum, 6.8 per cent
8. Royal Bank of Scotland, 6.4 per cent
9=Kazakhmys, 6.3 per cent
9=Tesco, 6.3 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.