Introducing new Marketwatch on Kite

Have you noticed how your Marketwatch gets messier over time? As traders and investors, we usually do not delete items from our watchlists—we just keep adding new stocks and F&O contracts that interest us.

When you are keeping an eye on many instruments, scrolling through a long list becomes really hard. Even with multiple watchlists, finding and watching specific instruments is still a challenge. That’s exactly the problem we wanted to fix.

Which is why we have completely redesigned the Marketwatch experience on Kite Web. Here’s what’s new on the Marketwatch:

1. More space – 25 watchlists (up from 7) and 250 instruments per list (up from 100)
2. Custom groups – Organise instruments within each watchlist by sectors, strategies, or themes
3. Ready-made watchlists – Access to pre-built collections for major indices and sectors

These changes make it easy to organise your market tracking. You can now put all your banking stocks together, separate from your IT stocks, or keep your short-term trading ideas in a different section from your long-term investments—all within the same watchlist.

Here’s a detailed look at each new feature:

More space for your instruments

With the increased limits, organising your watchlists is now flexible:

• You can create up to 25 different watchlists instead of just 7
• Each watchlist can hold up to 250 instruments instead of the previous 100
• We have added up and down arrow buttons for easy scrolling through large watchlists

These bigger limits make it easy to organise everything from long lists of stocks to F&O contracts or other instruments you’re tracking.

Custom Groups

Now let us look at the new groups feature.

Groups let you sort instruments within a single watchlist. You can create multiple groups in any watchlist, name each group however you want – like Auto sector, IT sector, or Finance sector – and even give different colours to each group to make them easier to spot.

Managing these groups is simple:

• You can collapse or expand a group by clicking on the group name or by pressing the space button on your keyboard.

• You can minimise or maximise the group by clicking on the minimize/maximize icon.

• To rename a group, just click the pencil icon and type a new name.

• You can move groups around by dragging them where you want them.

• If you want to move an entire group to a different watchlist, just click More, select Move, choose which watchlist you want to move it to, and click Move.

• You can also sort the instruments within any group. Click More, then Sort, and you can arrange them by percentage change, last price, alphabetically, or by exchange.

Just remember that while you can have as many groups as you need in a watchlist, you can still only have 250 instruments total in that watchlist.

Moving your instruments between groups is super easy with our drag-and-drop feature.

All you need to do is click and hold the drag icon next to any instrument, then drag it to your desired group and let go.

For example, if you accidentally put a tech stock in your Finance group, you can easily drag it over to your IT group where it belongs.

Or let us say you started with a broad Energy stocks group, but later wanted to split it into more specific categories like Renewable Energy and Oil & Gas. You can easily move specific stocks to their right groups with this drag-and-drop feature.

Organising your options strategies

The custom groups feature is useful for options traders who need to monitor multiple strike prices as part of a single strategy. For instance, you can use Groups to track all four legs of an Iron Condor in one place. Just create a new group and name it “Iron Condor” to monitor this four-legged option strategy. Within this group, add:

• Two out-of-the-money (OTM) call options at different strike prices
• Two out-of-the-money (OTM) put options at different strike prices

This setup helps you see the full risk profile of your Iron Condor position and watch all four legs as one cohesive strategy. 

For volatility-based strategies like straddles and strangles, create specific groups with descriptive names:

• In a “Straddles” group: Add matching call and put options at the same strike prices
• In a “Strangles” group: Add OTM call and put options at different strike prices

The color-coding feature makes it even easier to distinguish between different strategy types. For instance, you could use green for your bullish strategies and red for bearish ones.

Managing multiple expiries

If you’re tracking strategies across different expiry dates, you could create separate groups for each expiry. For example:

• June Iron Condor
• July Straddles
• Weekly Strangles

This organisation makes rolling over positions or comparing performance across different expiry cycles easier.

Managing your Watchlists

Creating and managing your watchlists is just as easy.

You can press CTRL + Shift + K or click the Create/Manage Marketwatches icon to get started.

From here, you can see all your existing watchlists, create new ones, and rename or delete watchlists as needed.

Your watchlists are now organised in two sections to help you find them more easily:

• The Favourites section shows your top watchlists – up to 7 of them – that appear under the numbers at the bottom of your screen for quick access.
• The Others section contains all your remaining watchlists.

Adding a watchlist to your Favourites is as simple as dragging and dropping it there. Just remember, you’re limited to 7 favourites, and each watchlist will appear under the position where you place it.

Ready-made Watchlists

We’ve also added pre-defined watchlists in the new Discover section, offering ready-made collections of instruments across different themes – like stocks from the Nifty 50 index, specific sector indexes like Auto or Bank, and many more.

Using these pre-defined watchlists is simple:

1. Just click on any pre-built watchlist to see all its stocks.
2. If you like what you see, click the Add to My Lists button to add it to your watchlists.

You will notice these added watchlists have a lock icon. This means they will update automatically. For example, if you add the Nifty 50 index watchlist, your list will automatically update whenever stocks are added to or removed from the Nifty 50.

If you want to customise a pre-built watchlist, just click the Customise icon and then Continue. Just remember that once customised, it will not update automatically anymore, but you can still edit it manually whenever you want.\

Personalising your Marketwatch

Finally, let us look at how you can personalise your Marketwatch through the settings menu.

• You can choose whether to display price changes based on the previous close price or today’s open price.
• You can also show or hide specific things like Price change, Price change percentage, Price direction, Holdings, Notes, and Group colours.
• And you can choose how you want to sort instruments within your watchlist – by percentage change, Last Traded Price, alphabetically, or by exchange.

For any questions about the new marketwatch, please post them in the comments below.

Note:

• The predefined locked watchlist will not be visible on Kite app.
• If the watchlist has groups, sorting or rearranging cannot be saved from the app until the new watchlist is introduced on Kite app.
• The new Marketwatch will soon be released on Kite app.