Friday, July 31, 2015

Powerful Stock Tracking With AmeriTrade Watchlists

If you're new to investing, Watchlists are a must to see how your stocks of interest are performing.


The Fundamental view in AmeriTrade shows the Dividend Yield percentage (which can be sorted) and the 52-week high and 52-week low.  Any columns can be sorted.  Online brokerages allow you to create multiple Watch Lists.

Watch List ideas:
  • By category
    • technology
    • energy
    • industrial
    • consumer goods
  • New companies
  • High volatility stocks
  • ETFs

Tracking stocks by category (tech, industrial, energy, etc.) can help you spot opportunities.  Tracking high volatility stocks that would be traded in days or weeks could be done with a new Watch List to make fast decisions since quotes are updated in real time.

Custom views can also be created to assist you with buy/sell decisions and show you the exact stats you care about.  Here's a custom view that I created for stocks that are volatile right now, some of which have good dividends.

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