MarketWatch — User Manual

1. Getting Started

MarketWatch works out of the box: install it, and an 18-symbol starter portfolio appears with auto-refreshing prices. Every feature is free for the first 14 days.

Install MarketWatch on your watch from the Connect IQ Store.
Open the app — it opens to the Watch Face Home (a clock screen); tap or press START to enter your markets list. The 14-day full-feature trial starts automatically. No payment, no account.
To keep using it after the trial: purchase a lifetime license ($7.99, one-time) on the MarketWatch homepage. You'll receive an activation key by email.
Enter the key in Connect IQ Mobile → MarketWatch → Settings → License Key, then restart the app.

Before you purchase, check your Device ID. Your license key is generated from your watch's Device ID (format XXXX-XXXX), so the ID you enter at checkout must exactly match your watch — a wrong or completely different number means the key won't activate. To find it: open MarketWatch; if the Watch Face home is off, tap the date area at the bottom of the list to open the Menu and set Watchface to On. Then, on the Watch Face screen, long-press an empty area to open the Watch Face menu, scroll to Device ID, and enter it exactly, character for character.

Prices come from Yahoo Finance and Binance public APIs via your phone's internet connection. Keep your watch paired with Garmin Connect Mobile.

2. Watch Face Home

When you open MarketWatch it lands on the Watch Face Home — a clock screen you can make your own. Pick an analog or digital clock, drop in your own image, and add up to three live info rows. Tap to dive into your markets; press BACK to come back to the face.

Action	What it does
Tap / START	Enter the markets list
Long-press a Net or symbol row	Open that detail screen (BACK returns to the home)
Long-press an info bar	Change the bar's color (the home bar color is independent of the list)
Long-press the date / image / empty area	Open the Watch Face settings menu
BACK	Exit the app

Clock styles

Hands — analog hands from the center.
Rim marks — slim hands that sweep along the rim.
Digital — time at the top and date at the bottom, like the list screen.

Turn Clock Ticks (the rim graduations) on or off. Colors are grouped under Color: Hand, Clock and Background — Background includes an Auto option that derives a matching tone from your custom image — plus Halo, a dark outline that keeps text readable over a photo background.

Info rows

The home has five row slots (Row 1 to 5). Set each to Off, Net (portfolio total), the Weather Bar, the Physical Bar, or any symbol — chosen by its list slot number. Watches with a 416 px or larger screen show up to five rows; smaller ones show up to four.

Swipe up or down on the home to scroll the rows one step at a time. They slide off the top or the bottom edge, and the image grows into the space they leave behind — so you can go from a full list of rows to just the clock and the image without changing any setting.

Custom image

Show your own image on the face. Open the MarketWatch image page, enter your Device ID (no account needed) and upload — it appears as a circular image on your watch, sized to follow the number of rows. Without a custom image, a default logo is shown.

Tap the Image item in the Watch Face menu to cycle its placement: Auto (fills the space left by the rows) ⇄ Full (full screen). If you haven't uploaded a custom image, the default logo is shown instead.

Your Device ID is shown in the Watch Face settings menu (long-press the home). The custom image is available during the trial and after purchase. Upload page: easymoat.com/marketwatch/image

Watch Face settings menu

Long-press an empty part of the home (the clock or image) to open it: Clock Style, Clock Ticks, Color (Hand / Clock / Background / Halo), Image, Row 1 to 5, Battery Saver, Saver Wake, and your Device ID. Single-choice items like Clock Style and Image cycle in place — just tap to advance, no submenu to open.

Prefer the app to open straight to your list? Turn the Watch Face Home off with the Watchface toggle in the list's date menu (chapter 11). With it off, the app opens to the list and BACK exits the app.

3. List Screen

Your markets list — reached by tapping (or pressing START on) the Watch Face Home. Time on top, date at the bottom, and your symbols in between — each row shows name, price, day change (amount and %). The list scrolls in a loop.

Action	What it does
UP / DOWN or swipe	Scroll the list (cyclic) — the row you want moves to the markers
Tap a row	Open that row's menu (symbol menu / Net / info bar)
START	Open the menu of the row at the markers (centre row)
Long-press a symbol	Same as tapping it — opens the symbol menu
Tap / long-press the date area	Settings menu — add symbols / info bars, and adjust app settings
Long-press an info bar	Bar menu — Move to / Color / Change Type / Delete
BACK	Return to the Watch Face Home

Two ways to pick a row. With touch, just tap the row you want. With buttons, a pair of fixed triangle markers sits on the centre row (3rd) — scroll with UP / DOWN until your row is between them, then press START. Both open the same menu.

A Net row (portfolio total P&L) appears at the top of the cycle once any symbol has Cost and Holdings set in its memo — see chapter 7.

4. Managing Symbols

Up to 20 symbols, all managed directly on the watch. No phone needed.

Adding a symbol

Tap (or long-press) the date area at the bottom of the list screen.
Choose New Entry — the keyboard opens.
Type the Yahoo Finance ticker (e.g. AAPL, 7203.T, BTC-USD) and confirm. The name fills in automatically.

Not sure about the ticker? Use the lookup tool on the MarketWatch homepage — search by company name and copy the exact symbol with its exchange suffix.

The symbol menu (tap a row)

Item	What it does
Open Detail	Open the chart / detail screen for this symbol
Move to...	Reposition: pick Top or a destination slot — other symbols shift to make room
Edit Ticker	Replace the ticker (name re-fills automatically from Yahoo)
Edit Name	Edit only the display name
Delete	Remove the symbol from the list

Supported instruments

Stocks & ETFs from 30+ exchanges: AAPL, 7203.T, 0700.HK, SAP.DE
Indices: ^GSPC, ^N225, ^VIX
FX: USDJPY=X, EURUSD=X
Crypto: BTC-USD, ETH-USD (USD) or BTC, ETH (JPY)
Commodity futures: GC=F, CL=F
US Treasury yields: ^TNX, ^TYX

5. Detail Screen

Tap a symbol (or choose Open Detail) to see its chart with key stats: high/low of the chart window, the chart's date range (S:/E:), today's volume (Vol:) and the current chart period (Per:).

Action	What it does
UP / DOWN or swipe	Previous / next symbol (info bars are skipped; Net opens its own detail)
Tap the clock (top)	Refresh this symbol now — price, chart, H/L, volume
START	Cycle the chart period (5m → 30m → 90m → 1 day → 1 week → 1 month)
Tap / long-press the chart	Open the position memo (chapter 7). BACK returns to the list.
Tap the H/L · S/E area	Toggle the volume bar graph (chapter 6)
Tap the date (bottom)	Technical overlay menu (chapter 6)
BACK	Return to the list

6. Charts & Volume

Six chart periods

Period	Bars × window	S:/E: format
5 min	5-minute bars × today	time (09:00)
30 min	30-minute bars × 1 week	month/day (3/12)
90 min	90-minute bars × 1 month	month/day (3/12)
1 day	daily bars × 3 months	month/day (3/12)
1 week	weekly bars × 1 year	year/month (25/6)
1 month	monthly bars × 5 years	year/month (21/6)

Switching the period (START)

In the detail screen, press START to step to the next period in the order above. The chart reloads immediately and the current period is shown at Per:.

The period applies to all symbols and is remembered across restarts.

Technical overlays

Tap the date at the bottom of the detail screen to pick an overlay drawn on top of the price line. The choice applies to all symbols and is remembered.

Item	What is drawn
None	No overlay (default)
Moving Avg	Two simple moving averages — short (blue) and long (orange)
Bollinger	Middle line (SMA) with ±2σ bands
VWAP	Volume-weighted average price. Nothing is drawn when the period has no volume (FX, indices).
Avg Cost	Dashed line at your Cost from the memo (chapter 7)
Alerts	Dashed lines at Alert 1 / Alert 2 from the memo (chapter 8)

Moving average windows follow the number of bars on screen — short = 1/10 of them, long = 1/4 — so the lines look equally smooth at every period. On a 3-month daily chart (about 63 bars) that is roughly a 6-day and a 15-day average; on the 5-minute chart, about 35 minutes and 1 hour 35 minutes.

Avg Cost and Alerts are horizontal lines that can sit outside the price range of the chart. The scale stretches to show them, but only up to one chart-range above or below — a level further away than that is not drawn.

Volume bar graph

Tap the H/L · S/E area (just below the chart) to swap those rows for a volume bar graph drawn on the same time axis (one bar per chart point). Tap again to switch back. The choice is remembered.

FX pairs and indices have no volume — the area shows "No volume data". The Vol: figure is always today's volume, regardless of the chart period.

7. Position Memo & Net

Each symbol has a memo that turns MarketWatch into a portfolio tracker. Tap the chart in the detail screen to open it (a long-press works too); any tap closes it again.

Cost / Qty — long-press to enter your cost basis and holdings
Value / P&L / % — calculated automatically from the current price
Alert 1 / Alert 2 — long-press to set price-cross alert levels (chapter 8)

Tap the memo to close it. All memo data stays on the watch and survives app updates.

The Net row

The Net row is pinned to the top of the list and does not scroll away. The upper line is the portfolio name, the lower line is the market value on the left and the unrealised P&L in percent on the right. Before you enter any Cost or Holdings it simply reads 0.

Action	What it does
Tap the Net row	Net detail screen — the aggregate P&L chart
Long-press the Net row	Choose which WebMemo portfolio to follow (chapter 14)

Net sums raw values and ignores currencies — mixing JPY and USD positions produces a nominal total only. For simulation, not investment advice.

8. Price Alerts

Set up to two alert prices per symbol in its memo. When the current price crosses a level — in either direction — the watch vibrates, plays a tone, and a banner naming the symbol and the level appears over whatever screen you are on.

The banner stays until you tap it (BACK closes it too), so an alert that fires while you are away from the watch is still there when you look.
How you're notified is a single Alert item: tap the date area → tap Alert to cycle Vib + Snd → Vibration → Off.
Alert baselines reset when you change settings, so a level you already crossed won't re-fire immediately.

9. Info Bars

Two optional bars can live inside your list, turning it into a glanceable dashboard — like a watch face with market data.

Weather Bar

Top row: condition icon + temperature / humidity / wind speed & direction
Bottom row: air pressure (hPa) / altitude (m)
Wind speed unit (m/s, km/h, mph, knots) is set in the Connect IQ settings panel

Physical Bar

Top row: heart rate / floors climbed / weight
Bottom row: steps / calories

Adding and customizing

Tap the date area → choose Weather Bar or Physical Bar. The bar appears right after the top of the cycle.
Long-press the bar itself to open its menu: Move to (position), Color (6 colors), Change Type (Weather ⇄ Physical), Delete.

Bars don't consume symbol slots — you keep all 20 even with both bars shown. Values update from on-device APIs with no battery-relevant network traffic. Weather data follows Garmin's weather cache (roughly every 15–30 minutes).

10. Rim Meters

Curved gauges along the left and right edges of the list screen. Assign a data source to each side independently: Body Battery, Stress, or the watch's Battery.

Body Battery — orange; higher is better
Stress — red-orange; higher means more stress
Battery — follows your Clock Color setting

Set the source via the date menu: tap Left Rim Meter / Right Rim Meter to cycle Battery → Body Battery → Stress → None (None hides that side). Values refresh about once a minute.

Each meter's color can be set independently under the date menu's Color submenu (Left / Right Rim Meter): Auto keeps the color-by-metric behavior above, or pick any of the clock palette colors.

The rim meters appear on both the list screen and the Watch Face Home (it's the same setting). On the home with an analog clock and Clock Ticks on, the meters blend into the rim graduations as a single gauge.

11. Settings

Most settings live on the watch: tap the date area on the list screen. Each entry shows its current value, and single-choice items cycle in place when you tap them — no submenu to open.

Watch (date menu)	Options
New Entry	Add a symbol (when a slot is free)
Weather Bar / Physical Bar	Add the info bar
Watchface	On / Off — the Watch Face Home (Off opens the app straight to the list)
Refresh Interval	30 sec / 1 min / 5 min / 15 min / 30 min
Color (submenu)	Clock (12 colors) / Background (Black / Charcoal / Gray / Navy / Dark Red / Dark Green / Auto) / Left & Right Rim Meter color (Auto + 11 colors)
Left / Right Rim Meter	Battery / Body Battery / Stress / None (tap to cycle)
Alert	Vib + Snd / Vibration / Off (tap to cycle)

A few items remain in the phone's Connect IQ settings panel:

Phone (Connect IQ panel)	Purpose
License Key	Activate your purchase
Color Mode	Red Up / Green Down — or Green Up / Red Down
Wind speed unit	m/s / km/h / mph / knots
Complication Slot 1 / 2	Which symbols feed your watchface (chapter 12)
Glance Display	Net or a chosen symbol in the Glance widget
Pushover (optional)	Earnings / dividend push notifications to your phone (US stocks and some Japanese stocks)

12. Complications & Glance

Watchface complications

MarketWatch publishes up to two symbols as complications. Assign them in the Connect IQ settings panel (Complication Slot 1 / 2), then pick MarketWatch as a data field in any compatible watchface. Tapping the complication jumps straight into that symbol's detail screen.

Glance

In the watch's glance list, MarketWatch shows either the Net (portfolio P&L) or one symbol of your choice — set via Glance Display in the Connect IQ panel.

13. Battery Saver

When you leave the watch alone, MarketWatch dims to just the clock and date on a black background. Prices keep updating. Tap the screen (or raise your wrist) to return.

It helps even with Garmin's Always On display setting off — the watch blanks the screen from your wrist angle, which keeps it lit during desk work.

Settings

Both items are in the Watch Face settings menu (long-press an empty part of the home). Battery Saver is off by default.

Watch Face menu	Options
Battery Saver	Off / 5 sec / 10 sec / 20 sec — how long without input before the screen dims (tap to cycle)
Saver Wake	Motion / Tap — whether raising your wrist also wakes the screen. Tapping always works in both (tap to switch)

Dimming does not start while a menu or picker is open, and the first tap after dimming only wakes the screen — it will not open a symbol by mistake.

14. WebMemo Sync

WebMemo is a free web workspace for MarketWatch owners. Build your portfolio on a full-size screen, then send it to the watch — and send the watch’s list back when you edit on your wrist.

app.easymoat.com/webmemo

Two directions, both run from the watch

The MW chip in WebMemo marks the portfolios the watch may use — up to three. The watch follows one of them at a time, and both directions use that one. On the watch, tap the date area at the bottom of the list screen to open the menu; two entries run the sync:

Menu item	What it does
WebMemo Load web to watch	Receives the portfolio whose MW chip you turned on in WebMemo into the watch’s 20 slots, then refreshes prices. Your 20 slots are replaced.
WebMemo Save watch to web	Sends the watch’s 20 slots (ticker, name and memo) back to the same MW portfolio, replacing its contents. Your other portfolios are untouched.

Both directions overwrite. Receiving replaces the watch’s 20 slots; sending replaces the MW portfolio on the web. Nothing is merged, so run the direction you want and check the other side before running the opposite one.

Choosing which portfolio the watch follows

Long-press the Net row at the top of the list. The watch fetches the portfolios you marked with the MW chip and lists them; pick one and it is received into the 20 slots straight away. The Net row then shows that portfolio's name instead of "Net".

The watch keeps one portfolio at a time. Picking another one replaces the 20 slots, and WebMemo Save writes back to whichever one you last picked.

While it runs

Progress appears on the menu row itself (Auth… → Loading… → the result), so you can leave the menu open and watch it finish. Keep your phone connected — the sync goes through Garmin Connect Mobile like price updates do.

If it doesn’t work

No license key — the sync needs your purchased key.
Nothing arrives on the watch — the MW chip decides which portfolio is synced.
It went to the wrong portfolio — both directions use the one the watch is following. Long-press the Net row to switch, or check the name shown on that row.

15. Troubleshooting

Prices show “--” or stop updating

Check that your watch is connected to Garmin Connect Mobile and the phone has internet. With many symbols and a 30-second interval, some fetches can lag — reduce the symbol count or lengthen the Refresh Interval.

A ticker shows “--” forever

The ticker is probably wrong or delisted. Verify it with the lookup tool on the homepage (exchange suffix matters: 7203.T, not 7203).

The chart area says Loading... for a long time

Chart data downloads on demand; on a weak phone connection the longer periods (1 week / 1 month) can take several seconds. Tap the clock at the top to retry.

Weather Bar shows “--”

The watch hasn't received weather from your phone recently. Open Garmin Connect on the phone with internet access, wait a minute, then re-open MarketWatch. Note that on some models, altitude and air pressure may not be available.

“No volume data” in the volume graph

Normal for FX pairs and indices — they have no traded volume.

Trial expired — symbols disappeared

Purchase a license on the homepage ($7.99 one-time), enter the emailed key in Connect IQ settings → License Key, and restart the app. Your symbols and memos are still on the watch and reappear after activation.