#CryptoSecurity101 Understanding Trading Pairs: Your Gateway to the Markets

Whether you're diving into forex or crypto, trading pairs are the fundamental building blocks of market activity. They represent the value of one asset against another, allowing you to speculate on their relative movements.

What is a Trading Pair?

A trading pair consists of two assets, typically separated by a slash (e.g., EUR/$USD, $BTC/ETH).

* Base Currency/Asset: The first asset listed in the pair. This is the asset you are buying or selling.

* Quote Currency/Asset: The second asset listed. This represents the value of the base currency/asset. The exchange rate tells you how much of the quote currency you need to buy one unit of the base currency.

For example, if EUR/USD is trading at 1.0800, it means 1 Euro