Creating Your First Watchlist: Track What Matters
A step-by-step guide to building an effective watchlist using Banana Farmer's tools. Learn how to curate, organize, and monitor assets that match your trading style.
Why a Watchlist Beats Random Browsing
The Top Signals leaderboard shows you what's hot right now. But a personal watchlist shows you what's hot among assets you already understand. That's an edge.
Step 1: Define Your Focus
What do I trade? Tech stocks? Crypto? ETFs? Commodities?
What market cap range? Large caps, mid caps, or small caps?
What holding period? Day trades, swing trades, or position trades?
Step 2: Find Assets That Match
Assets you recognize: Trading something you don't understand is gambling.
Sufficient liquidity: Can you enter and exit easily?
Historical momentum patterns: Does this asset move cleanly?
Step 3: Add to Your Watchlist
Click on any asset to view its detail page. Look for the star icon or "Add to Watchlist" button. Your watchlist syncs across devices if you're logged in.
Pro tip: Add assets when they're NOT ripe. You want to be watching them before they move, not chasing after.
Step 4: Monitor Ripeness Changes
Score increases: An asset moving from 40 to 55 is starting to ripen.
New badges: Technical pattern detected? Social spike? These are alerts.
Relative rank changes: Did your asset move up the leaderboard?
Your First Watchlist Template
5 large cap stocks (AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, GOOGL, AMZN)
3 mid cap growth stocks (sectors you understand)
2 major crypto (BTC, ETH if you trade crypto)
2 sector ETFs (XLK, XLF for sector rotation)
Start here, then customize based on what works for your style. Keep it under 30 assets—more than that becomes noise.
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