Follow stocks and build a watchlist

A watchlist is a page of the instruments you care about, each with its latest price, today's change and a small chart. You build it by following things, and it is kept in your browser.

#Follow something

You can follow anything that has its own page: stocks, funds, indexes, currencies and coins.

You can also follow from the Popular to follow list on the Watchlist page: select the star beside a name. A filled star means you already follow it.

#The first time

Your list is kept in your browser, which needs the Saved preferences choice to be on. If it is not yet on, a box appears when you select Follow.

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• Enable cookies and follow turns on Saved preferences and follows the stock in one step. It does not switch on anything else, such as AI answers or advertising.
• Not now closes the box and leaves everything as it was. Nothing is saved.
• All privacy choices opens the full privacy panel.

If you decided earlier not to allow Saved preferences, the watchlist card explains this and offers Enable cookies for my watchlist.

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#See your list

Open Watchlist in the Finance section bar, or use the Your watchlist card on the overview, which shows the same list with a Manage link.

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The table shows each name, a small chart for today, the price, the change in points and percent, the volume and range bars. Select a name to open its page. Select a column heading to sort; see Sort tables and read the range columns. On a narrow screen, slide the table sideways.

To add a symbol without leaving the page, type into the Add a symbol or company box and pick a suggestion or press Enter.

To remove one, slide the table to its right-hand end and select the small cross at the end of its row.

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If a symbol on your list has no price, such as one that has stopped trading, a note under the table names it and gives it its own remove button.

#Where your list is kept

You can follow up to 50 items, and the newest go to the top. If you use the same browser in two tabs, a change in one shows up in the other.

For lists that cover other parts of 4Search, such as members of Congress or topics, see Following.