Outrageous Predictions
Executive Summary: Outrageous Predictions 2026
Saxo Group
Investor Content Strategist
The most bought and sold stocks and ETFs last week.
Themes like AI, semiconductors, space tech and quantum computing were among the big stories of last week, which was evidenced strongly by client activity in the UK.
Nvidia regained its crown as the most actively traded stock from Micron, which was pushed back down into second place. Both had mildly positive buy ratios of 54% and 51% respectively.
Clients were buyers of Broadcom on weakness as shares plunged after it disappointed on guidance, and helped trigger a selloff across the ensure AI infrastructure space. Marvell Technology jumped up the rankings from 10th to 4th most traded stock with clients net buyers after Nvidia boss Jensen Huang said it would be the next $1tn company.
It was hard to get away from the space tech sector with the upcoming SpaceX IPO firmly on investors’ radars. Popular stocks in this space with strong net buy ratios for the week included AST SpaceMobile, Virgin Galactic and Rocket Lab. Other popular single stocks included software name ServiceNow and Coinbase, despite the drop in the price of Bitcoin.
Investors were buyers of broad equity index funds - the Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS Acc ETF, Vanguard S&P 500 Acc UCITS ETF, and iShares Core MSCI World UCITS ETF were the most popular.
Among UK shares EasyJet was sold by clients with just 17% buys. Also being sold was Tesla (41% buys) as the stocks headed lower and closed on Friday below its 200-day moving average.
Here’s a list of our top 30 most traded stocks and ETFs of the last week with the percentage of buys.
Top Stocks (Most Traded) | Buy% |
NVIDIA Corp. | 54% |
Micron Technology Inc. | 51% |
Broadcom Inc. | 63% |
Marvell Technology Inc. | 61% |
ServiceNow Inc. | 66% |
Microsoft Corp. | 49% |
Palantir Technologies Inc. | 56% |
Amazon.com Inc. | 42% |
Alphabet Inc. Class A | 66% |
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. | 38% |
Intel Corp. | 56% |
Oracle Corp. | 42% |
CoreWeave Inc. | 46% |
Strategy Inc. | 61% |
Meta Platforms Inc. | 58% |
Rocket Lab Corporation | 50% |
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. | 33% |
Tesla Inc. | 41% |
VanEck Semiconductor UCITS ETF | 75% |
Rigetti Computing, Inc. | 57% |
SanDisk Corp | 55% |
EasyJet Plc | 17% |
IonQ Inc. | 33% |
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. | 66% |
AST SpaceMobile Inc. | 59% |
Vanguard S&P 500 Dist UCITS ETF | 65% |
Arm Holdings Limited - ADR | 51% |
Netflix Inc. | 53% |
TSMC - ADR | 54% |
IREN Ltd. | 58% |
Most Popular - strongest buy % among our top 50 traded stocks and ETFs of the last week.
Top Stocks (Most Popular) | Buy% |
Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS Acc ETF | 95% |
Vanguard S&P 500 Acc UCITS ETF | 91% |
iShares Core MSCI World UCITS ETF | 86% |
Coinbase Global Inc | 81% |
VanEck Semiconductor UCITS ETF | 75% |
Alphabet Inc. Class C | 69% |
ServiceNow Inc. | 66% |
Alphabet Inc. Class A | 66% |
Dell Technologies Inc. | 66% |
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. | 66% |