Current top-5 most active stocks on the London Stock Exchange for 9:15 am GMT:BAY (BR AIRWAYS ORD) +12.75 +6.16% 228.25p Vol: 8.5MStill a long way to go if this is to break its 7-month decline. 250.00p key resistance. ALD (ALBIDON ORD) +12.50 +6.08% 218.00p Vol: 78,719Has enjoyed steady growth from 100.00p. Volume strong, set up for another good day?KENZ (KENTZ ORD) +9.50 +5.32% 188.00p Vol: 54,562Breaking from a 4-week period of tight trading. Since trading around 120.00p in February it hasn't looked back. TLPR (TULLETT PREBON) +22.25 +4.96% 471.00p Vol: 376,494Bound by a bearish bias sideways pattern. Currently working off support; resistance around 520.00pSL- (STD LIFE ORD) +10.00 +4.12% 252.50p Vol: 1.43MWatch for ...

Greater reference has been made in recent times to the association between blog readership and market reversals, not just from Barry's TheBigPicture from this past February and March, but also in the spikes in volume for TraderMike, Traderfeed, and my personal blog. So for this paper napkin research I did some analysis of my personal blog web traffic. I converted my visitors number using the same calculation as used for on-balance-volume; termed on-balance-visits. When the S&P closed higher I added my blog readership to a cumulative total, when it closed lower I subtracted it. Overall, I experienced strong readership growth; moving from around 400 visits a day in October 2007 to the 700 currently:By using an on-balance-visit calculation I can sidestep some of the concerns which may effect other metric calculations ...