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Adding Custom Columns to a Watchlist in Thinkorswim

Thinkorswim Custom Watch List Columns

Thinkorswim Custom Watch List Columns

Tired of looping through dozens of charts just to find the few stocks that meet your criteria? Wouldn’t you rather just glance at your watch list and instantly see those half dozen stocks all sorted at the top of your list? Looking for the needle in the haystack can be tedious and time consuming. This video demonstrates how to combine the power of a custom watch list column with a custom scan. Running live on an active market, these two tools combine to create a dynamic filtering engine to help you find those little nuggets that take you hours to uncover. The link below is to download the source code for the custom column indicatory demonstrated in the video. Just follow the instructions in the video to create your own custom column in a watch list.

Watch_EMA_XSTUDY.ts

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Click and drag interface to build custom watchlist columns. No code experience required:

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81 thoughts on “Thinkorswim Custom Watch List Columns”

  • Reply ↓
    Chandra

    Mr Hahn
    Thank you so much for an excellent job and providing it for free. Appreciate your contribution and educating us. I have a question on Custom Column accepting inputs. eg., if we add MACD as a column, it accepts aggregation period ,fast length etc to be able to modify. How to do that for custom columns? Thank you

    • Reply ↓
      Pete Hahn Post author

      I am very glad you found the video helpful. For custom quote columns the settings must be adjusted manually within the code itself. At this time there is no way to get a graphical user interface for the study inputs when working with custom quote columns.

  • Reply ↓
    Balachandar Marimuthu

    can we add more custom columns? It looks like a set no of custom columns that are available. I have run of it any available ones.

  • Reply ↓
    Leo

    Hi, first of all Thanks a lot for everything!
    You’re the Best Mr. Pete Hahn.
    Is there any way to show “Buy” , “Sell” or something else, instead of 0 ,1 or -1 , in the watchlist column?

    • Reply ↓
      Pete Hahn Post author

      Yep, there sure it. We have plenty of examples in the Q&A forum showing how to display text values in place of numeric values in a custom watchlist column. The only reason we did not include that in this video is because this video is an introductory video that covers only the most basic concepts.

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    Nexum Huss

    Greetings, I used my all custom watch lists in TOS and now unable to add new watch lists as there are no custom watch list left which i can modify according to my desired code. Would appreciate any input to fix it.

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    fittedwood

    Whats the workaround for “custom expression subscription limit exceeded” when making custom edits to watchlist for background colors? My code is right. I’ve deleted and added back smaller watchlist and still no luck

    • Reply ↓
      Pete Hahn Post author

      There is no workaround. There is a fixed limit to how many custom columns can be computed in a watchlist. You can exceed this limit buy adding too many custom columns to a watchlist OR by adding to many rows (ticker symbols) to the watchlist.

      • fittedwood

        Thanks for the rapid response! Tried the paper account and it worked for only about 50 ticker symbols. Maybe a different platform offers these features. Simply trying to set custom watchlist columns for Ichimoku signals like Tenkan crossing above Kijun.

      • Pete Hahn Post author

        There may be a lower limit for PaperMoney than for Live trading. I know the limit for live trading is several hundred. Did you try it on the live trading side? If your account is not fully funded this may also limit many resources on the platform. You really need to contact TD Ameritrade for more details.

      • Pete Hahn Post author

        and remember the limits is not “per watchlist” or “per custom column”. The limits are applied based on all custom columns added to all active watchlists. You can have several custom columns set to several different watchlists and hit the limit with only 50 ticker symbols in each.

  • Reply ↓
    Jeffrey

    Excellently presented. I utilized scripts from a Strategy in my watchlist. The watchlist alerts the event. Then I jump to the charts for that symbol with the Strategy for further evaluation to open a trade or not. Thanks much!

    • Reply ↓
      Pete Hahn Post author

      Thanks for taking the time to provide your feedback. I love to know when our videos inspire our viewers create solutions of their own design. Fantastic.

  • Reply ↓
    Vimal

    Hi Pete,
    Can you show the trend reversal in intraday in watchlist where stock is trening down or up in different time frame so it is long when it changes the uptrend vs short when it changes downtrend with green or red color? I need script for that.
    Thanks.

      • Vimal Mittal

        Since this is for intraday, I need to see which stock in my watch list has “pullback” after it opened up high or if it has “gone up” after it opened low after the bell. In summary;
        ….. how to sort stocks in your ThinkOrSwim watchlist by the % it has pulled back from the day’s extreme. So if it is a red day, the pullback % would be from the low of the day: a 2% reading would mean that the stock has pulled back off the low of the day toward the high by 2% of the day’s range. If it is a green day, a 5% reading would mean that the stock has pulled back 5% from the day’s high.

        This ThinkOrSwim indicator column should you a good way to sort and find stocks that are pulling back and giving a more attractive entry location. this is to spot stocks trading at or near their daily highs or lows, and that might be ready to breakout to the upside for a long trade, or breakdown to the downside for a short.

        The Multiple Timeframe Pullback & Reclimb Indicator should display 5 minute daily, weekly, monthly or yearly pullback (defined as the decline from the chosen period’s high as a percentage of the period’s total range) or reclimb (defined as the gain from the chosen period’s low as a percentage of the period’s total range).

        This study will allow you to quickly identify stocks making new period highs or lows.

        Thanks.