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Which trading pair you want to choose. Suppose you want to trade a common coins which is listed in both pair. Then which pair you will choose?


If i compare in binance BTC/ETH and USDT/ETH markets, Then i can see volume is BTC market almost 241,924 ETH.

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In USDT market almost 803,810 ETH.

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I will prefer to use USDT rather than bitcoin as a pair because i wanna get stability on my trade. I don't need feel worry my profit to be affected caused by the volatility that happaned with bitcoin.
Bitcoin's price can change in any seconds, that brings more possibility for my profit to be affected by the bitcoin's volatility.
It's also easy for me to determine which price that i should use it to enter the market.

In fact, both pair are my favorite. At one time almost all coins or tokens had BTC pair. Now many tokens do not have BTC pair but USDT pair.  The USDT pair is becoming very popular day by day.
If my coin has both pair then I will first see in which pair my coins will have more value. If the value is equal then I will choose USDT pair.  Because calculation is easy in USDT pair and transaction fee is low.

Whatever pair you choose all are ok without stablecoin, we know coinmarketcap is raising where altcoins are following Bitcoin run. USDT pair will help you to freeze money or stop losses function which can't help you in the ETH/BTC pair. I would prefer to you ETH/BTC pair because coinmarketcap bubbles diameter is increasing every month.

I wouldn't consider USDT to ETH unless I am ensured that profits are surely gonna arrive my way. Even though BTC -> ETH is quite full of risk unlike the other one, BTC never failed to somehow give profits regardless of its volatility.
It is still doing its usual nature.
It is still going both side of the walls and trends.

In general, the BTC & USDT pair, are widely used by investors and trading or investing, it depends on the region they live in, they both have their own advantages, in the field of trading, the theory says: if market conditions improve again many use USDT trading purposes to buy BTC, what most people know is Bitcoin is crypto and Tether is a stablecoin.

Basically significantly, if BTC goes up the USDT also follows, so the two are closely related, it is for this reason that most people often use both and the trading, investing, investors will stop trading if a bear market appears.
Bottom line: both are used.

I think it'll totally be depending on what my intention are for trading that day, obviously it'll be to make profit but assuming I'm hoping to get more bitcoin or more fiat. Well the bitcoin market is very bullish unlike altcouns that are showing signs of weakness mostly because all attention are on bitcoin at the moment.

With this reasons I think I'll want to hold more bitcoin as it stand a chance of getting double profit. First for trading and securing profit in bitcoin next for bitcoin potential raise in price

I remember there was time that eth/btc was my favorite pair for day trading but nowadays i am more into btc/usdt and eth/usdt due to easy calculations and sense of bigger profits, i guess.

As you can see from the stats of your post, eth/usdt pair has much bigger volume than of eth/btc pair which is really a huge achievement for usdt. This also clearly indicates that traders and overall market now prefer usdt pair more than the evergreen eth/btc pair. I think when bull run will be here the usdt pair will boom even more.

As an active trader we go for more volume which is clearly more for usdt pairs.
Secondly it is easier to keep track of profit and loss because usdt gives equivalent to fiat value.
It is also easier to buy sell and exchange usdt both online and face to face offline because of stable value. Due to all these advantages usdt pair is much more prefered nowadays than the btc pairs.

This is a good question but however comes with varying answers because everyone have his own preference and reason for choosing any pair. Some people will go for BTC pair because BTC is the best coin and hence there is every opportunity that their profits from the trade will appreciate, at the same time it can also depreciate thus the reason why most people prefers USDT pair since the profit will be stable. As for me, I can use both, that is, BTC or ETH pair when the market is in a good shape, so that I can get any potential gain and USDT pair when the market is dumping so that my profit won't be affected.

I think Usdt pair is the best because the price of usdt is stable but on the other hand, the price of usdt is not stable. Usdt pair is much more risk less than Bitcoin pair.

I will choose Usdt instead of BTC. Sometimes, BTC goes up or down like crazy! This may affect my portfolio. So Usdt pair is the best as i don't want to take risk.

USDT pair is better. Crypto is very volatile and trading stable coin against crypto will bring stability and reduces the chance of losing your profit to market volatility. When you decide to trade BTC/ETH and you take profit in ETH, sudden fall in the price of ETH will reduce your profit earn but USDT price is very stable and volatility is minimized

If you are taking the USDT as the pair to trade on altcoins and then it will be much more better to be used when bitcoin has been facing a bearish trend. Remember about this altcoins will go down even faster when bitcoin faced a bullish trend. That means there's a chance for you to lose even your capital in bitcoin term but when you are using stable coin even the big bearish trend happened and you will be fine. If you are looking for a safest way to trade and USDT is the best pair but when you are looking for the volatility from both and bitcoin is the answer. Bitcoin was not so stable as stable coin.

The ETH/BTC are nice pair and good when paired individually with other coins like USDT. But USDT is more of stable with easy and monitoring move than btc pairs. The pair plays roles like fiat.

I will choose USDT pair rather than Bitcoin pair, the reason is simple because stable and I want to enjoy my profits. Previously I thought bitcoin was better because we can earn double profits, profits from our selling and profits from bitcoin if the price goes up. But not all time bitcoin goes up sometimes goes down and I feel my earning is gone. So for me, USDT pair is better

I trade mostly on BTC pair since not all altcoins are paired with USDT and sometimes trade using my BNB. Whatever pairs you choose the risk will still depend on how you trade, USDT might be more stable but if you do careless trading, that’s useless. Trading is risky remember that, always create the winning strategies and choose the pair base on what is more convenient to you.

If there are both available in trading pairs, well, actually I can choose both, depending o some conditions at that time when I want to put my order.
- Trading volume
- rate of the price at that time
- Market condition, whether it is the uptrend of BTC or not.

BTC may be probably more promising if the price of BTC is up, but if it is very unstable and we need fast money, I will refer to USD because it is more stable.

Well it depends

I will use USDT to validate the fiat value when I am selling and buying crypto. I would use other crypto pairs only for inter crypto trading purposes. I will avoid BTC pair as much as I can as Bitcoin is volatile and it would be hard to trade.

But at current bitcoin rate, it's more profitable to choose btc pair as its price trend to increase compared to altcoins which result in you being able to buy more coins.
if bitcoin price decline, then altcoins prices tend to decrease as well, in this case, you'll get more coins with USDT pairs
So which pair that I favor depending on the market condition and the current price of bitcoin and USDT, but mostly prefer bitcoin.

Depending on whether I want to save it or sell it again, if I want to save it I prefer an altcoin pair because withdrawal fee is cheap when I move to my personal wallet,
but if it is for sale again I will choose bitcoin pair especially when BTC Dominance is high, the value will increase faster.

If I personally prefer USDT rather than BTC to be used as a trading pair, because USDT is a stable coin that makes the value of the money I have for trading not reduced (if the price of BTC falls), then the value of capital that I have will remain safe.

For the time being I still prefer USDT trading pairs. because everything is simple it is easy to calculate the amount of money I lose or receive in the trade. Moreover, USDT is still the leading currency in the world, we who are using cryptocurrency is still too small compared to the traditional financial market. Maybe the future will change my mindset about using trading pair, by which time I will prioritize btc.

The reason because it is stable indeed makes traders prefer use USDT pair than BTC, But I prefer to use BTC pair because I believe the Bitcoin price will increase in the future. BTC pairs have many options on the Exchange so we can trade a lot of coins.

It depends on what coin you took as base for your analysis of the trade, USDT is less riskier compared to USDT for it may suitable for everyone to execute their trade orders well and bitcoin trading pair is like double edged sword, you may gain or lose more what what you aimed for at the end of trade.

BTC trading pairs are better because you still have btc on your balance and in case of mooning you will earn more

It will not be difficult to decide because you need to feel what trading can make you comfortable to trade. You can do both btc trading pair and usdt trading pair because I think the pattern is almost the same, although you need to analyze more to find the time to trade. Or maybe you can try to trade btc trading pair for some time, and then you can change to usdt trading pair, so that can give you experience on what trading pair you can choose.

But if you want to feel more stable, you can select usdt trading pair because if you already sell your bitcoin or altcoin, your money value will be at the usdt, and you don't need to worry if the value will always change. But if you hold bitcoin or altcoin, the value of your money will be changed day by day if you don't trade.

I will prefer bitcoin 80% of times. Because if bitcoin pumps suddenly I can still increase my balance. Though sometimes I trade with USDT, but that with some big altcoins like ETH, BnB, LTC.

USDT value always constant, works only if you intend afraid of losing on your balance. About trading pair BTC is the most productive one since bitcoin price rises in long term and you can experience in case of mooning your balance. At present I have no confusion going with BTC when it's approaching the 14k.

I will also choose a trading pair with USDT. I think you also know USDT as the unit of payment and associated with all kinds of valuable products. In this market, we choose BTC ETH for trade, but perhaps most here we all want our assets in units of USDT rather than crypto. I think that's what makes the difference. maybe in the future we will have another choice for our asset unit.

I  feel better with trading btc pair.
 Actullay it is better to make it btc to dollar. All swapping site accept btc. But usdt is not supported by all.So I support btc pair.

I find the trading to be more easy when paired with USDT. When we do the same with ethereum or any other cryptocurrency we need to make calculations. When did with USDT or any of the stable coins portfolio management can be made easier. Most of the time people prefer trading with stablecoins to keep up the portfolio value undisturbed even when the market is declining.

I prefer pair USDT because USDT is a stable Altcoin and even more stable than Ethereum. I prefer to safe my assets because sometimes when selling or trading pairs in Ethereum/Bitcoin I will end up holding it due to falling prices.

Not always! If BTC go up Alt will bleed and you may lose profit in satoshi. So if you are willing to cash some money early go for usdt and for long term you can use BTC.

I trade btc/Usdt only when I try to avoid volatility, it's always easy to hold Usdt when the market is tumbling with loss, this way you can safeguard your fund.
When trading altcoins, I prefer to used btc pairs. When an altcoins surge by 200-300%, I don't convert them to Usdt, I directly swap them to Btc because as soon as bitcoin start making moves, altcoins and their dominance will begin to fall.
Once altcoins season begins, I make sure I book my profit in Btc.

You should only use BTC ETH pair in order to get profit from it.
Other than this its makes much more sense to trade via USDT since its basically more stable

prefer eth-usdt as usdt price is stable
And the benchmark for eth prices is more to USDT, unless there is news that BTC wants to go up
just eth-btc to take profit in bitcoin, yeah the same, if you want eth-btc or eth-usdt, I just think there are advantages in USD
if the BTC is down it can be far enough to lose
if usdt is not too much of a loss

I always use USDT trading pair, because btc is something I already have which means I do not see it as something I want to get rid of or want to ever change, I will "invest" into bitcoin but I will "trade" usdt, there is a big difference. Which means all I have to do is use usdt pairs all day everyday and have as much usdt as I could, and if I end up with a profit I use that profit side and buy bitcoin and put it aside and not touch it, then I go back to my usdt like my starting capital so I am in profit but my usdt is still the same while my btc increased.

Obviously if you want to you can do this with btc without ever touching usdt but that never really makes me feel as comfortable, I just want to see the number, seeing 543k satoshi profit is more confusing, seeing 50 bucks is easier to understand while trading.