1. Watchlists Overview

Watchlists are saved groups of symbols that keep your markets within reach. They let a research session move quickly between related instruments without retyping tickers or rebuilding the workspace.

The watchlist sidebar

Watchlists live in a sidebar alongside the chart. Each entry is a symbol you can click to load into the workspace, so switching markets is a single click. The workspace starts with a Main watchlist so you have somewhere to add symbols right away. Each row shows the symbol's latest price and percent change, which refresh on a short polling loop so the list stays current while you work (polling pauses while the browser tab is hidden).

What a watchlist holds

• Multiple lists — keep separate lists for different themes, sectors, or strategies.
• Symbols with their provider — each item remembers its ticker and data provider (Massive, Binance, OKX, or Alpaca), so equities and crypto can share a list and still resolve correctly. OKX symbols use their native dash-separated format (e.g. BTC-USDT).

You can keep many lists (up to 32), each holding a large number of symbols (up to 250), which is plenty for organizing broad coverage into focused groups.

Local to your browser

Watchlists are saved in your browser's local storage, so they persist across sessions on the same device but are not synced across devices. You can move them between browsers with import/export — see Creating & Managing Watchlists.

Next steps

Create and curate your lists.

Next: Creating & Managing Watchlists