User's Guide - Watchlists

• Creating A New Watchlist
• Adding Stocks To Your Watchlist
• Getting The Current Quotes For Stocks In Your Watchlist

Creating A New Watchlist

Adding your own Watchlists can help you to more effectively track the stocks you are interested in.

In the main menu, select File -> New Watchlist.... This will open the following window:

Type a name for your new Watchlist in the field labeled Name. The name you use can be anything you want, but every Watchlist must be named differently. You may also add a description of your Watchlist in the Description field, but this is optional.

Click "OK" to save your new Watchlist. Your StockMarketEye window will now look similar to the following:

You can modify the name of a Watchlist by double-clicking on its name in the list on the left. This will display the "Watchlist Settings" window where you can change the Name and Description of your Watchlist.

Adding Stocks To Your Watchlist

There are several ways to add a stock to a Watchlist.

1. "Symbol Search" In the upper right corner of the StockMarketEye window you will see the "Symbol Search" field. Click in the field and type the name of a company, product or symbol. The search results frame will appear.

   

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   You can add one of the search results to your Watchlist by double clicking it. Alternatively, you can drag-and-drop it onto one of the Watchlist names in the left side of the StockMarketEye window.

2. Another way of adding a symbol to a Watchlist is via the "Symbol" column. Select the Watchlist to which you would like to add a stock. Then in the Watchlist, click in the first row, just under the "Symbol" column. You will see a cursor in this cell, indicating that you can type your stock symbol here.

   

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   When you have typed the complete symbol, press the "Return" key and your stock will be added to the Watchlist.

3. You can also click on the "Add" button in the Watchlist toolbar to open the "Watchlist Symbol Details" window which allows you to specify the details of the symbol you are adding to your Watchlist.

   

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   In the Symbol field, type the stock symbol (or stock ticker) that you are interested in. The defaults for the other fields are usually fine, but you may wish to add a comment about this stock in the Comments field. When you have finished, click the "OK" button and your stock will be added to the Watchlist.

After you have added your stock symbol, your window will look similar to this:

Note: If you recieved the error message "Problem retrieving quotes!", you may need to set your proxy server. See the Setting A Proxy Server section above for details.

Getting The Current Quotes For Stocks In Your Watchlist

StockMarketEye retrieves current quotes for the symbols in your Watchlists from free servers on the Internet. You can decide, for each Watchlist, how often you would like to refresh the quotes. There are 2 possibilities:

1. "Streaming" Quotes - Update the current market price for the stocks in your Watchlist automatically at regular intervals.
   This is the default setting.

2. On-Demand - Update the current market price for the stocks in your Watchlist when you choose. You can update the prices simply by clicking on the "Get Quotes" button in the Watchlist toolbar.

   

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Changing the Live Quote Settings

By default, every Watchlist is initially set to use "Streaming" Quotes. You can switch your Watchlist to use On-Demand quotes or modify the "Streaming" Quote setting in the "Watchlist Settings" window.

To modify your Live Quote settings, in the main menu, select Watchlist -> Settings... The "Watchlist Settings" window will appear. Then click on "Live Quotes".

Under "Live Quotes", select either the Streaming quote data option or the On-Demand quote data option. When the "Streaming" option is selected, you can modify the "Update every" settings to change the frequency at which the quotes will automatically be updated.

Click on the "OK" button to save and activate the settings.

What's Next?

Create more Watchlists, add more stocks and broaden your view of the market!