Personal Watchlists

The Personal Watchlist (PWL) is a means to input stock ideas from multiple sources to determine if any of those many ideas are near a buy price as determined by our CANTATA methodology. Then you can choose to send an alert for the identified stocks on your lists.

Note that email alerts for PWL's are locked at 9:29AM EST for that day. Changes to your PWL's are possible while the market is open and will show up on the alert monitor page, but email alerts are locked in.

The PWL is designed to allow you to create or cut and paste a list of up to 500 stock symbols into each PWL. There are four PWL’s for a total of 2,000 stock symbols. Not that you would normally use that many but, for example, you could add one stock daily for over one year from a daily stock idea source.

Each stock list can be from a different source that you subscribe or read about in an article, or hear about from your stock investors’ group. Even stock ideas from business television programs can be put into a list for comparison with breakoutwatch.com’s stock timing and alert service.

You can select a column from a spreadsheet or a postscript (pdf) file or a Notepad file and copy/cut and then paste into the box for the selected PWL.

To cut and paste from a column of stock symbols in a postscript (pdf) file into the PWL.

   1. Open the pdf file page with an Adobe Reader.
   2. Click the left mouse button and release it at the bottom right of the stock symbol column
   3. Hold down the “ALT” key on the keyboard
   4. Click the left mouse button and hold it down as you move the cursor to the top of the list, highlighting all the symbols.
   5. Release the left mouse button and the ATL key, the column will be highlighted in blue.
   6. Position the cursor over the blue column and click the right mouse button.
   7. Select ‘copy’ from the menu with the left mouse button.
   8. Now go to the “Personal Watchlist ” menu choice under the Evaluate menu choice.
   9. Click the right mouse button and selection ‘paste’ from the menu with the left mouse button.
10. The column of stock symbols should now be in the window.
11. In the top left-hand corner of the PWM window is a box under “New” type in the name of your watchlist and click the GO button. For example, “9-3-08-source XYZ” Your PWL is now saved.

Four PWL’s are the maximum at any one time. If you want to add an additional list, you must first select and delete a PWL you no longer need. You can combine many lists into one list of 500 stock symbols if you choose.

Now you can compare the PWL with the latest breakoutwatch.com chart patterns.

Under “Compare BoW watchlists” is a list and selection arrow. Select the pattern you are most interested and a table will appear showing which stock symbols on your PWL’s matches that pattern. Also listed is the number of occurrences that symbol appears in your PWL’s and the BoW watch list.

By doing this you can now identify which stocks meet your fundamental requirements and breakoutwatch.com’s technical and timing requirements.

You can change your PWL email alert preferences under the Take Action - Alerts > Alert Preferences menu choice.

You can change your email address for alerts under “Account Management” and “Update Account” tabs on the left side of any of our site pages.