This seems like a very basic question. But, I've searched on and I'm getting nothing. In Robinhood, bitcoin is BTC and Ethereum is ETH. But, in trading view they look more like BTCUSD and ETHUSD. Are those the same thing? And, there's different versions from different sources. Which ones are correct? Thanks
As far as I know, in the Robinhood app, you can buy and sell stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, etc. Each stock, ETF, asset, or national/cryptocurrency has its own so-called ticker, which is an abbreviation to uniquely describe a tradable thing. BTC is a universally agreed-upon set of letters used to identify Bitcoin among other assets. BTCUSD is also a ticker that represents a more complex thing, namely a trading pair in which bitcoin (BTC) is traded against the US dollar (USD). Were it another currency, the Chinese Yuan (CNY) for example, a trading pair would have a different name - BTCCNY ticker. If Robinhood uses US Dollar as its default currency (I assume it does since the company is based in the US), then both BTC and BTCUSD will have almost identical charts, both of which can be considered correct despite the fact that they may show slightly different prices at the same point in time.