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Monitor (watchlist)
  What is the Monitor?
  How can I get to the Monitor?
  Starting a new Monitor
  Loading a saved Monitor
  Adding a stock to a Monitor
  Using the stock confirmation popup
  Adding multiple stocks
  Ordering Monitor content
  Deleting stocks
  Deleting a Monitor
  Editing columns
  Renaming a Monitor
  Setting a default monitor
  What is the Monitor Microscope?
  What is Monitor News?
  What is Monitor Mailer?
  How to print out a Monitor

Ordering Monitor content

You have complete control over the order stocks appear in any monitor list by using the Monitor Config page.

Click on the Config link at the top right of the page whilst you are on a monitor page. The Monitor Config screen should appear.

Note: You can switch between configuration pages by using the "Settings:" drop down at the top of the Config page.

The Config page has Three options

  • Break Up Monitor by Indices and Exchanges

  • Order By Symbol

  • Group By Warrant

  • Breakup Euronext


  • You can select or de-select each option using the tick boxes beside each option.




    To display stocks in the order in which you typed them in:
    Deselect all the tick boxes

    Click on the "OK" button at the bottom of the page.


    To display stocks in the alphabetical / numerical order of the symbol
    Select only "Order by Symbol"

    Click on the "OK" button at the bottom of the page.


    To order by exchange and index (in the order you typed the stocks in):
    Select only "Break Up Monitor by Indices and Exchanges"

    Click on the "OK" button at the bottom of the page.

    To order by exchange and index (in alphabetical/numerical order):
    Select "Break Up Monitor by Indices and Exchanges" and
    Select "Order by Symbol"

    Click on the "OK" button at the bottom of the page.