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What Stocks Were Saxo Clients Buying and Selling Last Week?
Neil Wilson
Investor Content Strategist
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The most bought and sold stocks and ETFs last week.
Last week US equity markets came under pressure as a confluence of factors weighed on risk sentiment, particularly around tech. Anthropic released its Claude Opus 4.6, aimed at enterprise software users rather than consumers, which hit software stocks hard. Hyperscalers’ capex plans were punished as investors worried about a pathway for monetisation – Alphabet and Amazon both trumpeted huge increases in AI spending, adding to the announcements from Meta and Microsoft the previous week. Persistent weakness in digital assets weighed further as Bitcoin trades down approximately 50% since October, while cross asset volatility rose with the wild swings in gold and silver.
Saxo clients leant into the tech weakness by buying Mag7 names– behaviour reflected by the wider market as Nvidia, Broadcom and AMD rallying 7% on Friday to lead a chunky 2% rebound for the S&P 500.
Amazon was the most traded name last week after shares plunged around 10% following its latest earnings update and attracted strong buying activity with 75% net buys. Microsoft was also popular with 75% net buys as shares traded down at their weakest since May last year.
Fresnillo was the most traded UK-listed stock as the silver miner saw its share price swing around with the price of precious metals, while BP made the top 10 most popular stocks as shares rallied into this week’s earnings update.
Gold and Bitcoin ETFs attracted interest from clients with a strong bias towards buys.
Here’s a list of our top 30 most traded stocks and ETFs of the last week with the percentage of buys.
Top Stocks | Buy% |
Amazon.com Inc. | 75% |
Microsoft Corp. | 77% |
NVIDIA Corp. | 61% |
Palantir Technologies Inc. | 68% |
Tesla Inc. | 54% |
Alphabet Inc. Class A | 58% |
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. | 65% |
iShares Physical Gold ETC | 58% |
Micron Technology Inc. | 59% |
Novo Nordisk B A/S | 77% |
Meta Platforms Inc. | 63% |
PayPal Holdings Inc. | 66% |
IREN Ltd. | 66% |
Strategy Inc. | 54% |
Apple Inc. | 50% |
Broadcom Inc. | 60% |
Robinhood Markets Inc. | 57% |
SanDisk Corp | 58% |
iShares Bitcoin ETN | 84% |
Vanguard S&P 500 Acc UCITS ETF | 79% |
Vanguard S&P 500 Dist UCITS ETF | 64% |
Coinbase Global Inc | 65% |
Netflix Inc. | 69% |
Oracle Corp. | 64% |
Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF | 92% |
Fresnillo Plc | 57% |
iShares Physical Silver ETC | 76% |
SoFi Technologies Inc | 74% |
Rocket Lab Corporation | 48% |
USA Rare Earth Inc | 68% |
Most Popular – from our top 100 most traded stocks and ETFs we’ve found our top ten most popular based on the highest buy-to-sell ratio last week.
Top Stocks | Buy% |
Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF | 92% |
Vanguard FTSE 100 UCITS ETF | 90% |
Stellantis N.V. | 88% |
WisdomTree Physical Bitcoin ETN | 87% |
VanEck Gold Miners UCITS ETF | 85% |
iShares Core MSCI World UCITS ETF | 85% |
iShares Bitcoin ETN | 84% |
MercadoLibre Inc. | 83% |
BP Plc | 82% |
Unity Software | 79% |
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