Your Investing.com watchlist is a powerful tool for tracking your favorite financial instruments. To make it even more effective, you can customize which columns appear in your view, allowing you to focus on the specific data that matters most to you.

Accessing Column Customization

You can easily add, remove, or rearrange columns in your portfolio's watchlist by following these simple steps:

1. Navigate to your portfolio or watchlist page
2. Locate the "Settings" icon at the end of the column headers row
3. Click on this icon to open the column customization panel

Selecting Your Preferred Columns

The customization panel offers a variety of data points you can choose to display:

Market Data Columns

• Name: The name of the financial instrument
• Symbol: The ticker symbol
• Exchange: The market where the instrument is traded
• Last: The most recent trading price
• Bid/Ask: Current buying and selling prices
• Open: The opening price for the current trading session

Performance Indicators

• Prev.: Previous closing price
• High/Low: Highest and lowest prices of the current session
• Chg./Chg. %: Absolute and percentage price changes
• Vol.: Trading volume

Additional Information

• Extended Hours: Pre-market and after-hours pricing
• Next Earnings: Upcoming earnings announcement dates
• Time: Timestamp of the last update

Simply check or uncheck the boxes next to each column to add or remove them from your view.

Optimizing Your Display

For the best viewing experience:

• Check the "Adjust column width" checkbox at the bottom of the panel to automatically resize columns based on their content
• After making your selections, click the "Apply" button to save your changes
• Consider selecting only the columns most relevant to your investment strategy to avoid information overload

Creating an Efficient Watchlist

By customizing your columns, you can create a watchlist that serves your specific needs:

• For day traders: Focus on columns like Last, Chg. %, High/Low, and Vol.
• For long-term investors: Prioritize fundamental data and upcoming events
• For multi-market traders: Include the Exchange column to easily identify which market each instrument trades on

Your column preferences will be saved for future sessions, ensuring your watchlist always displays the information most important to you.

Managing Multiple Watchlists

If you use several watchlists for different purposes, you can customize the columns for each one independently, allowing you to create specialized views for different investment strategies or asset classes.