Adding Benchmarks
To add a benchmark to the chart, click on the ‘Benchmarks’ button and select one or more benchmarks from the drop-down list. A benchmark can be an index, treasury, commodity, one of your portfolios, or the sector or industry of the stock in the main chart box. Like stocks, benchmarks can be set as baselines, which makes it easy to view a stock’s performance relative to the benchmark.
You can add multiple benchmarks to the chart, but note that you cannot chart more than twelve lines at a time.
Here is the list of indices that are available to chart as benchmarks:
| Symbol | Chartable Index |
| ^FCHI | CAC 40 |
| ^CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| ^GDAXI | DAX 30 |
| ^DJX | DJIA |
| ^DEXCAUS | Dollar to CAD Exchange Rate |
| ^DEXUSEU | Dollar to Euro Exchange Rate |
| ^FEDFUNDS | Federal Funds Rate |
| ^FTSE | FTSE 100 |
| ^GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| ^HSI | Hang Seng |
| ^HOUST | Housing Starts |
| ^INDPRO | Industrial Production Index |
| ^IXIC | Nasdaq |
| ^NDX | Nasdaq 100 |
| ^N225 | Nikkei 225 |
| ^RUT | Russell 2000 |
| ^OEX | S&P 100 |
| ^SPX | S&P 500 |
| ^GSPTSE | S&P/TSX |
| ^SSE | SSE Composite |
| ^TWEXB | Trade Weighted Exchange Rate |
| ^UNRATE | Unemployment Rate |
| ^VIX | Volatility S&P 500 |
Here is the list of treasuries that are available to chart as benchmarks:
| Symbol | Chartable Treasury |
| ^Y1M | 1-month Treasury |
| ^Y3M | 3-month Treasury |
| ^Y6M | 6-month Treasury |
| ^Y1Y | 1-year Treasury |
| ^Y2Y | 2-year Treasury |
| ^Y3Y | 3-year Treasury |
| ^Y5Y | 5-year Treasury |
| ^Y7Y | 7-year Treasury |
| ^Y10Y | 10-year Treasury |
| ^Y20Y | 20-year Treasury |
| ^Y30Y | 30-year Treasury |