The watchlist is useful, and even more useful when I can view my watchlist stocks with the Fool stats such as the new 5Y. The problem is adding or removing stocks from the watchlist - it’s entirely manual. Much too laborious to remove one by one, or add more than five or six tickers.
I have over 75 US holdings, at least one third would be covered by MF, maybe more than half or close to two thirds of them. But since it’s only useful if I enter all of them, and it’s too slow to enter, I won’t enter any of them.
Here are two suggestions for the watchlist view on https://www.fool.com/premium/watchlist/
In the left side column, add a checkbox beside each stock, and a Delete button. Or just a Trash icon beside each one. Going through the three steps to delete a stock is too much when there are many to do.
In the little text box to add a symbol, also allow pasting in a comma-separated list of symbols. The problem will be resolving symbols across different exchanges, for example T is both on the NYSE and the TSX. We (individuals) don’t have (or care about… NYSE? NASDAQ? doesn’t matter) the exchange for each holding so you might generalize a symbol to .us or .cad or .uk etc. Within each country’s exchange a given symbol should only exist once.
Thanks
Andy
In the left side column, add a checkbox beside each stock, and a Delete button. Or just a Trash icon beside each one. Going through the three steps to delete a stock is too much when there are many to do.
Or, if adding the box is difficult, just enabling the non-contiguous CTRL-click trick?
Holding down control while clicking each to be eliminated would also smooth the process.
For continuous block deletions, click #1, shift, click #2 would also be useful.
Andy and BrerBear,
I have flagged your post for the attention of the development team. No guarantees but hopefully you’ll see your ideas implemented.
Fuskie
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