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Watchlists are the workhorse of the Single Names section — your personal collections of tickers, surfaced as heatmaps, performance tables, and history charts.

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Building a watchlist

Two ways to populate one:

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From scratch

  1. Click + next to the watchlist picker
  2. Name it (e.g., “AI infrastructure”)
  3. Add tickers — either typed in or pasted as a comma/newline-separated list

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From a sector

  1. Click Browse Sectors in the top controls
  2. Pick a sector (e.g., Technology)
  3. Optionally filter by industry, market cap, or include/exclude ETFs
  4. Click Load — it loads as a temporary watchlist
  5. Save it (with the + action) if you want to keep it
Watchlists save automatically and persist across sessions, scoped to your account.

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The heatmap view

The default rendering of a watchlist is a heatmap grid — one tile per ticker, color-encoded by performance over the active timeframe.

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Color encoding

The heatmap uses the same scheme as the Indices cards:
  • Bright green = top performers (95th+ percentile of today’s distribution)
  • Light green = upper quartile
  • Neutral = middle
  • Light red = lower quartile
  • Bright red = bottom decile

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Two display modes

Toggle in the controls:
  • % mode — color encodes raw percentage move
  • σ (sigma) mode — color encodes the move relative to the ticker’s own volatility
Sigma mode is more useful for comparing across tickers with very different normal volatility (a 5% move in a utility is very different from a 5% move in a small-cap biotech).

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Timeframes

The “usual timeframes” toggle works the same as on Indices: 1D, 1W, 1M, 3M, 6M, YTD, 1Y, plus a Custom date range.

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The performance table view

For lists where you want numbers rather than colors, switch to the table view. Sortable by any column — return, vol, sigma, current price, etc.

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History view

The history tab shows how the watchlist itself has performed over time, treating each list as an equal-weight basket. Use it to:
  • See which of your themes are working over weeks/months
  • Compare a custom list to SPY or a relevant ETF
  • Spot regime shifts in a basket before individual tickers obviously break out

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How most people use it

  • One watchlist per theme — not one giant list. AI, energy, EM, crypto-related, etc.
  • Heatmap first, table second — heatmaps catch outliers in 2 seconds; tables answer the follow-up
  • Sigma mode when comparing across cap sizes — keeps the eye honest
  • History view weekly — to see if your theses are actually playing out