diff --git a/piker/brokers/questrade.py b/piker/brokers/questrade.py
index 323cbab6..3f0ebbd7 100644
--- a/piker/brokers/questrade.py
+++ b/piker/brokers/questrade.py
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ async def quoter(client: Client, tickers: [str]):
         new, current = set(tickers), set(t2ids.keys())
         if new != current:
             # update ticker ids cache
-            log.info(f"Tickers set changed {new - current}")
+            log.debug(f"Tickers set changed {new - current}")
             t2ids = await client.tickers2ids(tickers)
             ids = ','.join(map(str, t2ids.values()))
 
diff --git a/piker/cli.py b/piker/cli.py
index 79bbcb61..a383eb35 100644
--- a/piker/cli.py
+++ b/piker/cli.py
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ def watch(loglevel, broker, rate, name):
     try:
         trio.run(main)
     except OSError as oserr:
-        log.error(oserr)
+        log.warn(oserr)
         log.info("Spawning local broker-daemon...")
         child = Process(
             target=run,
diff --git a/piker/ui/watchlist.py b/piker/ui/watchlist.py
index be21dd85..a0944ffb 100644
--- a/piker/ui/watchlist.py
+++ b/piker/ui/watchlist.py
@@ -394,6 +394,7 @@ async def _async_main(name, client, tickers, brokermod, rate):
 
     async with trio.open_nursery() as nursery:
         # get first quotes response
+        log.debug("Waiting on first quote...")
         quotes = await client.recv()
         first_quotes = [
             brokermod.format_quote(quote, symbol_data=sd)[0]