Many of our readers have questions and comments about our immensely popular Watchlist tool, which lets you track stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, commodities and other investments.
Whether you're an absolute newbie investor or a seasoned veteran of the markets, it's a quick and easy way to keep an eye on what's going on in the markets. And now, you can check your Watchlist on your as well.
We took our readers questions live on Monday, July 25, at 11:30 a.m. in an online discussion. You can replay it by clicking on the box below -- or you can read a full transcript further down the page.
11:29 Sonali Verma - Good morning! We'll be starting our discussion on Watchlist shortly. I'm Sonali Verma, deputy investment editor at the Report on Business, and I'll be joined by Jonathan Tracy, who takes care of our Watchlist development.
11:32 Sonali Verma - Let me start off by asking Jonathan about our new smartphone app. You can now get the mobile web version of your Watchlist on any smartphone. Jonathan, what's coming up next?
11:36 [Comment From Jonathan Tracy]
An iPhone app is coming up next for mobile Watchlist. We're excited about that.
11:36 [Comment From rashmi]
How can one see a chart on the watchlist that is for example for 1 year period?
11:38 Sonali Verma - Hello, Rashmi! At the moment, you can see the five-day chart when the view on your Watchlist is set to Overview.
You can see the one-year chart by clicking on that chart. It then gives you the option of seeing 1-day, 5-day, 1-month, 3-month, 6-month, YTD, 1-year, 5-year and 10-year charts.
Jonathan tells me we're working on getting selectable chart durations within the Watchlist itself as well.
11:39 [Comment From Peter]
Good-morning! Within the "overview" component there is the 5 day graph, which also shows the stock"s trading #s (open, high, low, close, etc.) for the previous 30 days; is it possible to expand this to 60 or 90 days? Thanku!!
11:42 Sonali Verma - Good morning! And thank you for your suggestion.
11:43 Sonali Verma - I think you mean the price history on the stock quote page. We do have plans to redesign this and will keep your request in mind.
11:43 [Comment From Tyrone]
Does this also track ETFs and ETNs?
11:43 Sonali Verma - Hello, Tyrone! Yes, Watchlist does track ETFs.
11:45 Sonali Verma - Here's a link to a blog post that tells you more about it: http://asset-boost.pro/globe-investor/globe-investor-blog/watchlist-summing-up-all-the-new-features/article1959489/%3C/p%3E%3Cdiv class="c-ad--base l-media">