Crypto Currency conversions (Binance)

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sizweoks

11 Jul, 2025 01:57 PM

Hi guys

Has any one converted crypto from USDT to another coin?
How would I log this exchange? I can only seem to enter price in my local currency in my crypto investment account.
How do I go about exchanging from USDT to another crypto coin, in the moneydance register.

  1. 1 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 11 Jul, 2025 03:32 PM

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    It depends..

    By convert - do you mean sell/buy?

    You probably want USDT as a security
    You probably want the other as a security too.

    You buy USDT (from cash/dollars) originally
    You sell USDT (into cash/dollars)
    You buy other crypto (from cash/dollars).

    If this is no good for you, explain in more details what you are trying to acheive.

  2. 2 Posted by sizweoks on 11 Jul, 2025 03:38 PM

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    On Binance, there's an option to trade one coin to another directly.
    So, there's no conversion to cash first.

    On Moneydance investment register, I can only buy with ZAR (the currency I use)

    This is where I get stuck, I'm trying to essentially convert USDT to COIN in Moneydance.

    withouth using ZAR, the only thing I can think of is to look at the price on the exchange down to the second and use the closing price of that second as the ZAR buying price?

  3. 3 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 11 Jul, 2025 03:45 PM

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    To do this you will need to create currencies for the crypto. To prevent confusion you might need to just hold qtys of crypto as currency (crypto) rather than securities..

  4. 4 Posted by sizweoks on 11 Jul, 2025 03:50 PM

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    Ok, thanks for the reply, I'll give this a shot.

    I'll save-as and delete the securities I have and re-purchase/convert to crypto currencies.

    Does this sound correct?

  5. 5 Posted by sizweoks on 12 Jul, 2025 11:05 AM

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    I forgot that I can't use crypto as currencies on my Moneydance.

    I'm using ZAR as my base currency so I can't sync any of the crypto "currencies" to yahoo.

    So I seem to be stuck here.

  6. 6 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 12 Jul, 2025 11:41 AM

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    You can use currency and alphavantage with currency ID of
    BTC-
    this will translate into BTC-ZAR (i.e. it adds your base currency). BUT - AV does not support ZAR as a market... Unless Derek can think of a solution, you are probably snookered...

  7. 7 Posted by sizweoks on 13 Jul, 2025 09:30 AM

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    Thanks for the solution.

    I ended up selling USDT to ZAR at the closest price close (to the second) I could get.
    Then bought the coin I wanted with ZAR on Moneydance.

    I think for now this is a suitable solution.

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