yes the trade ideas list and watchlist cause confusion, please go and read my post from last week, last week I said that I would probably be getting rid of the watchlist and trade ideas list and just combining them into one list of rotating trade ideas.  Right now trade ideas are in the newsletters, watchlist, and trade ideas list.

Anyway to answer your question, the trade ideas list is where Steve and I add trade ideas that we find during the intra day trading day, I don't add trade ideas to the watchlist during the trading day, ONLY at night.  We then add them to the newsletters at night and sometimes the watchlist.  

The Trade ideas list is also intended for us to put short quick ideas that I wouldn't be comfortable placing on a watchlist because I may view it as a very quick or aggressive trade only.  However that said, most of our ideas 9 out of 10 have been working out and right now both lists contain most of the same ideas anyway, so I haven't really kept to that logic.  Also the watchlist is hard to maintain.  That's why I stated my goal would be to get rid of these multiple lists and just have ONE list of rotating trade ideas.  The watchlist with triggered and untriggered would go away because as I've stated, triggered and untriggered is meaningless because I suggest buying inside the patterns near support, others buy when they breakout, so then what's the trigger price?  there really isn't one.  Just think of them as trade ideas and trade them on your own, vs having a set rigid triggerd and untriggered list which causes confusion, and I constantly receive emails and questions stating; why isn't stock ABC on the triggered list, or why is the %G/L 5%, I calculate that it should be 3%.  Again you see my point.