Mastering the TradingView watchlists
Watchlists are the bread and butter of every trader. They serve as an indispensable tool that allows you to track assets you’re most interested in all in one place. On TradingView, you can easily create your own watchlists, customize their view to fit your strategy, explore fundamentals, track the latest news, and do so much more. Let’s dive into the details and see how you can use watchlists to enhance your analysis.
Setting up your watchlist
TradingView watchlists can be opened from the right-hand toolbar. They display essential data including the last price, price change, and other stats that you can customize in the settings.
Here you can also manage symbol elements (logo, ticker, and description) and the list mode to display it as a table or rows.
When you’ve chosen the view, it’s time to add symbols. Click the plus button to open the Symbol Search. To keep your list organized, you can use various customization options so that you don’t miss any important changes.
- Add watchlists to your favorites to switch between them quickly
- Add sections to the list to make it more neat
- Manage columns width
- Sort the list by clicking on the column with the required value.
General settings
Clicking on your watchlist’s name opens the settings menu, which gives you multiple options for managing your list.
In addition to actions such as copying, renaming, and clearing, you can also share your watchlist to let your colleagues follow your selected assets.
From here you can also create a watchlist or import one from your computer. Finally, you can open one of your lists or some of the ready-made collections like Volume gainers or Gap losers — simply click Open list.
Symbol details
Clicking on a symbol from your watchlist opens the symbol detail section under the list. The contents of this section may differ depending on the instrument, but generally, you will find a lot of helpful info there.
Earnings, seasonals, technicals, and more useful data are at your disposal. For a more comprehensive view, you can expand these details into a full-screen mode.
Advanced view
Sometimes, the default watchlist may not be enough for your strategy. In this case, you can open the Advanced view. This will allow you to watch even more data, including financial and performance metrics as well as risk and technical indicators.
- Comparison chart for the first three assets in your list.
- Symbol distribution to visualize asset composition.
- Dividend and Earnings Calendars to track upcoming reports and adjust your strategy accordingly
- Market news Screener to stay informed about the latest events — without leaving the page.
Watchlist alerts
To make sure you don’t miss an opportunity, you can create alerts based on multiple symbols in your watchlist. These alerts will make it easier to track specific market conditions across hundreds of symbols you’re most interested in.
To set an alert, open the Watchlist menu, and select Create alert on the list.
Set up to 2 active watchlist alerts with our Premium subscription and more with our plans for professionals: up to 10 with the Expert plan and up to 15 — with Ultimate. Once a condition is met, you’ll receive a notification.
If you add a symbol after creating the alert, your watchlist alert will trigger for that symbol as well. Conversely, if you remove a symbol from the watchlist, the alert will no longer apply to it. This ensures that your alerts always reflect the most current set of symbols in your watchlist.
Read more about watchlist alerts to learn how to maximize your analysis.