How to build a free stock watchlist in ThesisMemo

Know what the free watchlist includes

ThesisMemo’s free company set is NVIDIA, Palantir and AMD, using the tickers NVDA, PLTR and AMD. These are fixed examples, not an allowance to choose any three stocks. Their research previews can be read without registration; saving and returning to your watchlist requires an account.

Start with a purpose for each company. You could follow a business you want to understand, a company whose disclosures you want to practice reading, or a stock you already research independently. Inclusion in the free set is a product-access decision, not a recommendation to buy those securities together.

Create an account and open Watchlist

Use Create free account, complete the account flow, then open Watchlist. If you already have an account, log in instead. The account keeps your saved company list associated with your user profile. Opening a public company preview alone does not create or save a watchlist.

An empty list is a normal starting state. You do not need to connect a brokerage account or enter a portfolio value to follow the three free companies. Treat the list as a research queue: it tells you what you intend to revisit, not what you own or what you should own.

Add companies using their tickers

In the Company or ticker field, enter NVDA and choose Add company. Repeat with PLTR and AMD if you want to follow all three examples. Confirm the company name before adding a symbol, particularly when using a company-name search rather than an exact ticker.

Check that the company appears in the list, then open its research page. If an addition fails, read the displayed message before retrying. Do not assume an item has been saved because you typed its name. A successful saved row is the useful confirmation.

To remove a company, use that row’s remove control. Removing it changes your list; it does not close a brokerage position, because this watchlist is a research feature. You can add an eligible company again when it becomes relevant to your routine.

Use the list to decide what to read next

Review the filing note shown with each company and then open the company page for context. Recent SEC filings can help direct your attention, but a label about collected filings does not establish that there has been no other company news. Check the timeline and original sources for the question you are researching.

Avoid treating the biggest displayed price move as an instruction to act. A price observation and a supported explanation of that move are different things. If you are investigating a change, record its observation period and seek dated evidence before assigning a cause.

A manageable routine is to inspect one company carefully and scan the others for material changes. You do not need to form a new opinion about all three each time you open the list.

A practical first session: build a research queue

Start with only NVDA if you want to learn the controls before adding the other examples. After adding it, open the company page and identify one source you want to read. Write the question beside the ticker in your own notes. Return to Watchlist and confirm that you can use the saved company row to reach the same research page.

Next, add PLTR or AMD only if you can state a separate reason for following it. This is not a diversification exercise: a watchlist is not a portfolio allocation, and these free examples do not constitute a balanced investment strategy. The purpose is to make the list reflect your research intentions.

On a later visit, inspect the dates before assuming something changed. If a company has a recent filing note, open the source and ask whether it answers your question. If the material is unchanged, keep your prior note and record that no new supported answer was found. This prevents the list from becoming a source of pressure to form a fresh opinion every time you log in.

If you share a device, confirm that you are using your own account before changing the saved list. A public company page and an account-specific watchlist have different roles: one is available for reading, while the other reflects the companies saved to the signed-in account.

Organize attention with a simple external review queue

A saved company list becomes more useful when you pair it with a small external queue. Create three columns in a notebook or spreadsheet: company, open question and next source to inspect. For NVDA, the question might concern the meaning of a reported business factor; for another free example, it might concern the period covered by a filing. These are suggested research prompts, not current claims about either company.

Add a fourth column for review status using your own labels, such as unread, checked and waiting for evidence. This does not require a built-in tagging feature. The distinction helps you avoid opening the same familiar article repeatedly while an important unanswered question remains buried elsewhere. A company can stay on your watchlist even when its next checkpoint is still weeks away.

Prioritize the queue by the question you need to answer, not by the number of saved rows. If one company has a disclosure relevant to an open question, start there. If none has relevant new material, a short check may be sufficient. The watchlist supplies a convenient route back to the company; your queue supplies the reason for going there.

Troubleshoot a saved-list problem step by step

If an expected company is missing, first distinguish the public preview from the account watchlist. Reading a company page does not by itself prove that you saved it. Return to Watchlist, confirm the account you intended to use and inspect the company rows. Avoid changing several things at once: a single controlled retry makes the result easier to understand.

If the interface reports an access restriction, check whether the ticker belongs to the fixed free set before retrying. If it reports a different error, retain the wording and the action that preceded it. Do not include your password or other private credentials in a support message. The useful details are the page, ticker, approximate time and whether adding or removing the company failed.

After a successful addition, revisit the list once to confirm the row remains available. Then open the saved company and check that its name and ticker match your intention. This final check separates completion of the saving task from completion of your research task. You may have organized the queue successfully while still needing to read the source and resolve the actual business question.

Return with a question, and expand only when useful

Keep a short external note for each company: what you last checked, the source date and the question still open. On your next visit, use the watchlist to return to those company pages and compare the current evidence with your note. This makes repeated visits purposeful rather than a cycle of rereading headlines.

Membership is relevant when you want to research and follow other covered companies. Check the current Pricing page for access and billing terms before subscribing. Broader access does not guarantee that every company has a fresh assessment or every data field is available. The free list is enough to learn the workflow before deciding whether a wider workspace is useful.