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Not every symbol in the scanner demands equal attention. Watchlists let you cut the universe down to the names you have already decided are worth watching, organized however makes sense for your workflow. You can keep separate lists for different strategies, asset classes, or conviction levels — and every list comes paired with chart context so you’re never looking at a symbol’s data without knowing what the chart looks like.

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Creating a watchlist

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Open Watchlists

Press W on your keyboard or navigate to Watchlists in the sidebar. The page opens to your saved lists, with the default Favorites list loaded first.
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Add a new list

Click New Watchlist and enter a name. Names can be anything that fits your workflow — for example, “Tech Leaders”, “Futures”, “Swing Candidates”, or “Earnings Watch”.
3

Add symbols

Type symbols directly into the watchlist input field, separated by spaces or commas. StratAlerts validates each entry against the active scanner universe and resolves futures aliases automatically (for example, entering ES resolves to ES=F).
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Organize across multiple lists

Create as many lists as you need. You can maintain separate watchlists for different strategies — intraday and swing setups, for instance — without them interfering with each other.
Watchlist names are limited to 64 characters. Each account can hold multiple watchlists, and a symbol can appear in more than one list at the same time.

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The Favorites list

Every account has a default watchlist called Favorites. This list is special because it connects directly to the setups table: symbols you mark as favorites appear with a distinct indicator in the setups feed, and you can filter the entire setups table to show only your favorited names with a single click. Use Favorites for your most active, highest-conviction symbols — the names you check first every session. Use your other watchlists for longer-term tracking or thematic groupings that don’t need to surface in the setups table immediately.
You cannot delete the Favorites list while it is the only list in your account. To remove it, first create another watchlist and then delete Favorites — the next list in alphabetical order becomes the default automatically.

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Viewing symbols in your watchlist

Each symbol in your watchlist is displayed with its current setup data alongside a chart, so you can assess both the technical picture and the Strat state without navigating to a separate page.

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Multi-timeframe chart viewing

When you open a symbol inside a watchlist, you can flip between timeframes directly from the chart controls. This lets you quickly walk up the timeframe stack — check the daily setup, confirm the weekly context, validate the monthly TFC — without reopening the symbol in a separate tool.

Setup data in context

Each watchlist entry shows the symbol’s candle state, TFC alignment, and setup flags alongside the chart — so the data and the chart are always in the same view.

Quick timeframe switching

Flip between Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly candles directly in the chart view without leaving the watchlist page.

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Managing watchlist membership

You can add or remove a symbol from any watchlist from multiple places in the platform:
  • From the watchlist page — Use the symbol input or the remove button next to any existing entry.
  • From the setups table — Click the watchlist icon next to any symbol to open the membership picker and toggle the lists it belongs to.
  • From a symbol detail view — The watchlist membership panel shows which lists the symbol is in and lets you update them without leaving the detail view.
When a symbol is in your Favorites list, it is marked as a favorite across the platform. That flag appears in the setups table and can be used as a filter condition.

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Cloning and renaming lists

If you want to create a variation of an existing list — for example, you have a “Tech Leaders” watchlist and want a focused subset for earnings week — you can clone the list and rename the copy rather than rebuilding it from scratch.
Click the list name or the rename action in the watchlist menu. Enter the new name and confirm. Renaming does not affect the symbols in the list or any filter states in the setups table that reference the list.
Use the clone option in the watchlist menu to duplicate the list with all its symbols. The cloned list is named with a “Copy” suffix by default — rename it immediately to keep your workspace organized.
Open the watchlist menu and select delete. If you delete the default watchlist, the next alphabetical list becomes the default. You cannot delete your last remaining watchlist — create a replacement first.

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Using watchlists on mobile

Watchlists are fully supported on mobile. You can browse your saved symbols, review setup data, and check chart context from any device. This makes watchlists the right place to store the names you want to monitor when you are away from your primary workspace.

Review setups on the go

Open your watchlist on mobile to check candle states and setup flags for every symbol in your list, without needing to be at your desk.

Paired with push alerts

Symbols in your watchlist that trigger setup alerts will reach you through Pushover or Telegram — so mobile watchlist review and push notifications work together as your away-from-desk workflow.

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Keyboard shortcut

Press W from anywhere in the platform to jump directly to the Watchlists page.