The Watchlist panel displays real-time market data for each instrument available from your broker.

To open a new Watchlist panel, select Terminal > Watchlist.

If the new price or volume received is higher that the previous one, then the cell is highlighted in green; if the value goes lower, the cell is highlighted in pink. You can customize these colors.

For each instrument, the following information is available:

• Instrument - the name of the instrument traded.
• Market - Route name (exchange, market).
• Company - instrument description (company name, type).
• Last - last trade price.
• Last Size - last trade volume.
• Date - last update date.
• Time - last update time.
• Volume - total amount traded today.
• Bid - last best bid price.
• Bid size - volume of inside bid.
• Ask - last best ask price.
• Ask size - volume of inside ask.
• Change - price change from current day's opening price.
• Change % -  price change from current day's opening price in percentage.
• Open - day open price.
• High - day highest price.
• Low - day lowest price.
• Prev Close - previous day close price.
• Lot size - one lot size.
• Expiry Date - day of expiration (for options).
• Quantity - order amount (for buy/sell action). You can change this value directly in Watchlist. Default quantity you may set here.
• Tick - last trade ("v" - price is down, "^" - price is up,  "=" - price don't change).
• Trade and Trend - trades trend history.
• Spread - change for current price (Ask-Bid)
• Sell/Buy - sell/buy Quantity at market with default expiration. Default expiration you may set here.
• Buy - sell default quantity  at market with default expiration.
• Description - description for instrument.
• Instr. Type - instrument type (market/category).
• Market Cap. - market capacity. Shows the issued shares.
• Last update - last data update.

By default Watchlist could be autofilled with All instruments or be empty. You could change default condition in Panel Settings.

What You Can Do in the Watchlist

Right-clicking on the Watchlist displays a shortcut menu you can use to remove instruments from the Watchlist, add new instruments to the Watchlist, add an instrument to favorites, export or import instruments to and from files. Also, after right-clicking you can set up parameters for viewing such as color, font, etc; set up a filter to show only special instruments. You can also export the Watchlist to Excel, create a snapshot or simply print it. The Group by option allows grouping instruments by Market, Lot size and/or Instrument Type. With the Columns manager you can set up the displayed columns and customize them. You can also add new Table Alerts (a special instruction that is executed after an event).

Instruments on Stock Markets

There are a lot of instruments on the stock market, so your trading application will load only some of the main ones. You can add other instruments manually which are important to you. Right-click on any row in the Watchlist and select Add instruments. Type in the instrument name or select it from the list of available instruments. Press the OK button and the new instrument will be added to the Watchlist.

Board View

The Watchlist panel is also available in board view for easy one-click trading. To switch to Board view, select Board in the panel's title bar.

The color of the cell and the direction of the arrow shows the change compared to the previous quote: red/down if the price went lower, or green/up if the price went higher.

In a board-based Watchlist you can quickly place market orders. To view the chart for an instrument, click the chart icon in the top left corner. To close a cell, click the X button in the top right corner.

Detail View

The Watchlist panel is also available in detail view to show complete information about an instrument.

Select an instrument in the Instrument list to view. You can also use instrument lookup by clicking the Instrument Lookup button.