A watchlist is a named group of tickers. Scope a Radar scan to a watchlist and the scanner only walks those names. Scope an alert to a watchlist and the alert only fires on changes within that universe. Watchlists are how you keep Tradient’s “everything” default from flooding you.
Creating a watchlist
Open Watchlists from the sidebar and click “New watchlist.” Give it a name (e.g., “Liquid ETFs”), optionally a description, and add tickers one at a time or paste a comma-separated list.
Sensible default watchlists
- Liquid ETFs — SPY, QQQ, IWM, DIA, EFA, EEM, GLD, SLV, TLT. The cleanest premium-selling universe on the planet.
- Mega-cap tech — AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, META, NVDA, TSLA. High options volume, broad analyst coverage, lots of strikes.
- Names I’d own at the right price— stocks you’d be happy to acquire via cash-secured puts. Tailored to you.
- Earnings season — a rotating list of names reporting in the next two weeks. Refresh weekly.
Using watchlists in scans
On any Radar scan, the universe selector defaults to a shared package (Liquid 30, Quality 20, No biotech, …). Switch it to a watchlist and the scanner only walks those tickers. Two practical effects:
- Faster scans — fewer tickers means shorter walk times. A 10-ticker scan completes in milliseconds.
- Tighter results— you only see setups on names you actually want to trade. No more scrolling past random tickers you’ve never heard of.
Using watchlists in alerts
When you save a scan that’s scoped to a watchlist, the watchlist scope is part of the saved scan. Any alert on that saved scan inherits the same scope. So:
- Create a “CSP candidates” watchlist with names you’d own.
- Run a CSP scan against that watchlist.
- Save the scan.
- Add a daily alert with “new results” threshold.
- You now get a daily email when one of your wishlist names becomes tradeable.
This is the closest thing Tradient has to a personalized “buy alert.”
Editing and reordering
Watchlists are mutable. Add or remove tickers at any time; existing scans pick up the change on the next run. There’s no migration step. You can also reorder tickers within a watchlist for display purposes — order doesn’t affect scan results.
Sharing and export
Watchlists are private by default. You can export any watchlist as a CSV (just the tickers) for use in other tools. There’s no built-in sharing — Tradient is a single-user product and we’re keeping it that way.