Hi everybody. Today we're talking about how to use watchlists on the thinkorswim Mobile app.
Now, I'm using an iPhone today, so if you're using an Android device or a tablet,
it's going to look a little different.
So, the first thing you need to do is go to the Watchlist page. You can see the icon
for that in the bottom left portion of the page. It'll bring up an existing watchlist.
Now, if I want to edit that watchlist and change the stocks on that watchlist,
I can do so by clicking on the Edit button in the upper right. I'll do that now.
It brings up my stocks in my watchlist. There's a little red circle by each of those. And if
I want to delete any of those, I'm going to click on one of those red circles. I'll click
on the circle to the left of GE. And it then gives me the choice to delete it on the right.
I'm not going to do that right now, but just realize that you can delete it that way.
If I want to add a symbol on there, I can just tap on the Add Symbol box
and type in the symbol that I want. Now this is for this watchlist, but if I want to change
watchlist, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the upper-left portion of the page where
it says Watchlists. And it's going to show me a whole bunch of different watchlists.
Realize there's two general categories of watchlists. There's personal watchlists
that you can create, and that's what I have here for the most part. But there's also
public watchlists that you can do. And if I click on my back button, it gives me the choice of
different watchlists. You can see it says Personal watchlist. And if I click on that, it will give me
the choice of those personal watchlists. Let me go back to categories. Notice below there,
though, there's different watchlists. Public watchlists are lists of pre-established stocks.
So, for example, if I click on public, I can go down to the Dow Jones Industrial Average,
and it will bring up the 30 stocks that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Let me go back
to watchlist and click on Back again. There's other types of public lists that change.
For example, if I click on Top 10, it'll show me some of the outstanding stocks today in terms of
whether they're doing well or poorly in terms of performance, or volume, or things like that.
Let me go back to categories. Now, if I want to create a new watchlist,
I'm just going to click on Create New Watchlist at the upper portion of the page. That's in green.
Let me close this out, and let's go back to my watchlist.
So here I have a watchlist with the Dow. So, this is a public watchlist, and you can see there's
different columns. The first column's the symbol, then the last price, net change, and so on. If I
want to change those columns, I can do so. I can customize these watchlists. You can customize the
watchlist to how you want them to display. And, to do that, you're simply going to click on the gear.
On the top portion of the page where it says visible columns,
those are the columns that are currently there. If I want to get rid of some of those--say,
I want to get rid of Open. I click on Open and click on Delete. Or, I click on, if I want to get
rid of volume, I can click on the little minus sign next to volume and then click on Delete.
If I want to add something else, I can go down to the bottom of the page under categories,
click on it, and then add something I want. If I want to add EPS,
or Earnings Per Share, I'm going to click on the plus sign next to
EPS, and notice EPS is now at the top portion of the page. Once I'm done, I click on Done,
and you can see, if I look at my columns, I now have an EPS column on the right side of the page.
Now use watchlists for your needs. You can create personal watchlists of stocks that perhaps
you're interested in, or you can use public watchlists to help keep track of the market.
In any case, that's how you can use watchlists on the thinkorswim Mobile app.
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