# Filters and exclusions | Amal Invest Help

Your pies are rebuilt on your own rules. The filters screen has four of them, plus a list of everything currently excluded.

Key Takeaways

*   Non-compliant stocks are always excluded. That rule cannot be turned off
*   Questionable stocks, such as companies with mixed revenue, are your call
*   Two curated exclusion lists cover companies supporting the occupation: BDS Movement and the Watermelon Index
*   Anything you add to the personal blacklist never appears in your pies

## The four rules

Open the Trading 212 app in Amal and press the **Filters** tile.

![The What to exclude screen](https://amalinvest.com/help-assets/212-filters.png)

1.  **Filter non-compliant stocks.** Always on. Stocks that fail screening under AAOIFI standards are removed.
2.  **Allow questionable stocks.** Off by default. Companies flagged as questionable have mixed retail or insufficient data, for example Amazon or Walmart. Turn it on to keep them.
3.  **Genocide-supporting companies.** Press **Customize** to choose which exclusion lists apply.
4.  **Personal blacklist.** Press **Add stocks** to exclude specific tickers.

![The Questionable stocks info popover with examples](https://amalinvest.com/help-assets/212-questionable-popover.png)

## The exclusion lists

The **Tune your exclusions** dialog has two tabs.

**BDS Movement** groups companies into five lists you can toggle separately: direct boycott targets, military and defense, big tech complicity, tech and services, and consumer brands. Expand a group to see each company and the reason it is listed.

![The Tune your exclusions dialog on the BDS Movement tab with one group expanded](https://amalinvest.com/help-assets/212-customize-bds.png)

**Watermelon Index** is a single switch covering companies involved in occupation and apartheid. Tap a company for its complicity and economic exploitation details.

![The Watermelon Index tab](https://amalinvest.com/help-assets/212-customize-watermelon.png)

Press **Apply** to return with the selected count shown on the filters screen.

## Your personal blacklist

**Add stocks** opens a search. Pick any ticker and it joins the **Excluded** list below the rules.

Swipe to see all 2 screens

## Saving

Press **Update filters**. The change applies on the next sync, which you can trigger straight away from the dashboard's **Sync pies** tile. See [Pies and syncing](https://amalinvest.com/help/trading212/pies-and-syncing).

## Common problems

**A stock I excluded is still in my pie.** Trading 212 can take up to a day to apply pie changes. Run a manual sync, then check again tomorrow.

**The pie has fewer holdings than I expected.** Trading 212 pies hold at most 50 stocks, and your filters remove more. That is expected.