TD Direct Investing names the UK's most traded UK-listed companies for the morning of Tuesday 17 January 2012.

Top ten trades
Tuesday 17 January 2012 (until noon)
Source: TD Direct Investing

TD Direct Investing view

'Range Resources accounted for 22.3 per cent of the buy trades today as it reached first place in the buys and second in the sells table. The gas focused explorer announced record fourth quarter production volumes today with production having increased 16 per cent from the same period last year. This represents the eighth consecutive year of double digit production growth for the Texas-based company.

'Security firm Westminster Group moved into the top ten buys today after announcing revenue of £10 million: a 260 per cent increase for the year to 31 December 2011. The AIM listed company receives almost 90 per cent of its sales from outside the UK with particular interest in its services from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.'

BUY

1. Range Resources, 22.3 per cent
2. Tesco, 16.5 per cent
3. Afren, 8.7 per cent
4. Gulf Keystone Petroleum, 8 per cent
5. Royal Bank of Scotland, 7 per cent
6. Lloyds Banking Group, 5.9 per cent
7. Westminster Group, 3.4 per cent
8. Red Emperor Resources, 3.2 per cent
9. Falkland Oil and Gas, 2.9 per cent
10. San Leon Energy, 2.5 per cent

SELL

1. Royal Bank of Scotland, 12.9 per cent
2. Range Resources, 12.2 per cent
3. Lloyds Banking, 10.5 per cent
4. BP, 8.3 per cent
5. Afren, 8.2 per cent
6. Gulf Keystone Petroleum, 7.9 per cent
7. Premier Foods 6.7 per cent
8. Barclays, 5.1 per cent 
9= Red Emperor Resources 3.2 per cent
9= Xstrata, 3.2 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.