When I first entered the world of trading, I thought all currencies were only bought with dollars. I didn't know there was something called trading pairs, nor what the difference between BTC/USDT and ETH/BTC was, for example. After a period of learning and experience, I began to understand that choosing the right trading pair has a significant impact on the trade. Sometimes the currency itself is good, but the pair you are trading may not have enough liquidity or may move strangely.

One of the things I learned is that some pairs are more stable and easier to predict their movement, like pairs against USDT, because they are tied to the dollar and their price is clear. As for pairs against currencies like BTC or ETH, their movement is more complex because you are tracking two currencies at the same time, not just one.

I always started asking myself before any trade: What is the pair that gives me the best price and execution? Do I need to convert my profits back to dollars or invest them in another asset? Many times I use pairs against BNB or BTC because I don't want to return to cash, but I want to exchange between projects. I have come to know that choosing the pair depends on my goal for the trade and on the state of the market as a whole.

Choosing the pair has become part of my decision; I no longer trade just because I saw a currency rising. I have to see with which currency I am going to trade, and how this pair has moved over the past days. I learned to monitor the volume, liquidity, and spread before I open the trade. This is a big difference from the old days when I would just press buy and that was it.