Mastering the TradingView watchlists
Watchlists allow you to track assets you're most interested in — all in one place. On TradingView, you can create lists based on various criteria, customize their view, explore asset fundamentals, track the latest news, and much more. Available from any page and product.
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Setting up your watchlist
The first thing to do with watchlists is to add symbols for your analysis.
On the right-hand side, click the watchlist icon.
From there, you can add and remove symbols, creating your custom lists based on asset type, market, sector, or mood:
- Related news
- Fundamental data
- Technical summary
To start, click the "+" button to open the symbol search.
Choose the asset type, find the symbol you want to track, and click the plus icon. Symbols will appear at the bottom of your watchlist. You can then move them to any section to sort them as you like.
If you need more sublists, click on the name of the watchlist → Add section.
You can always rename or remove them.
Watchlists show key metrics:
- Last price
- Price change
- Percent price change
- Volume
- Price change during extended hours
To sort symbols by any of them, just click the name of the metric.
To add or remove a metric, click the three-dot menu in the upper-right corner.
In this menu, you can also manage symbol elements (logo, ticker, and description) and choose whether to display the list as a table or rows.
Watchlist settings
In the dropdown menu, you can select different customization options:
- Add a watchlist alert
- Make a copy of your watchlist
- Rename the watchlist
- Add a section
- Clear the list
- Create a new one
- Upload a watchlist in a .txt file with the exchange prefix and comma-separated values
- Access your favorite watchlists
- Open a dialog with your watchlists and access hotlists
Symbol details
Clicking a symbol in your watchlist opens the symbol details section below the list. The contents of this section may differ depending on the instrument.
For example, for stocks, you'll see:
- A quick market summary
- Flash news
- Key fundamental and technical stats
- Bonds
- ETFs holding this stock
- Options
- Seasonals
- Company profile
To expand these details into a full-screen mode, click the "Metrics" button and choose what you need.
You can also add a note for this symbol and access it anytime later.
Advanced view
In advanced view, you can access four pages:
- Overview: Gives you general data on each symbol and a watchlist distribution across symbol types and sectors
- Earnings: Contains the information from the Earnings Calendar
- Dividends: Contains the information from the Dividend Calendar
- News: Contains the latest news on symbols in the watchlist
In the Overview tab, you can see core metrics for different categories:
- Financials: Contains metrics such as EPS, P/E ratio, and other
- Performance: Shows symbol performance as percentages over different time periods
- Risk: Contains metrics such as beta and volatility
- Technicals: Has key technical stats
In the upper right corner, you can toggle "Currency in USD" to compare prices in multi-currency lists.
To get a bigger picture, you can view summary values for your watchlist data: summary rows for minimum, maximum, average, and median values.
Next, you can group your watchlist by:
- Custom section
- Currency
- Symbol type
- Sector
- Exchange
Watchlists in a nutshell
TradingView watchlists help you keep your most important assets in one place so you can monitor and analyze them more efficiently. You can add symbols, organize them into custom sections, sort them by key metrics, and tailor the layout to match your workflow. Watchlists also give you quick access to symbol details such as news, fundamentals, technical data, and notes.
In advanced view, you can explore broader insights across your list, including performance, earnings, dividends, and sector or symbol-type distribution.
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