# Trading pairs
To configure which trading pairs Gunbot should trade, go to **Pairs** or **Easy edit**.
You can use an unlimited number of trading pairs, across multiple exchanges.
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[Pair processing](/wiki/how-to-work-with-gunbot/editing-strategies-and-pairs/trading-pairs/pair-processing.md)
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## Add trading pairs
To start trading on a new pair, just enter or select the pair name, pick the exchange and strategy and hit the **Add** button. When you want to temporarily stop trading a pair, use the **Enabled** toggle to disable the pair.
On exchanges that support it, a pair list is automatically provided in the correct format. For some exchanges you need add pair names manually.
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The *Use safe balance settings* option makes sure that a few critical balance settings are automatically set to known working values, for each newly added BTC, USD, USDT or EUR pair.
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### Using filters to add multiple pairs at once
Select the **Use filter rules** option to add pairs based on filters you set. This way you can for example easily add the top 10 volume USDT pairs.
When you're done, hit the **Filter** button to add pairs matching your filters.
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Some exchange unfortunately just don't provide the data needed to filter pairs in this way, or their API rate limits are too strict to do it in a practical way. In that case likely just nothing happens when you hit the filter button.
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## Pair naming conventions
Gunbot uses a standardized format for entering trading pairs, this allows you to use the same syntax for all exchanges you might use.
Where possible it uses this notation: BASECOIN-QUOTECOIN
All pairs with BTC as base currency are written like: BTC-ETH, BTC-ATOM, BTC-ETH
All pairs with USDT as base currency are written like: USDT-BTC, USDT-ETH, USDT-XMR
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The base coin in Gunbot is the one used to buy another asset. Be aware that some exchange show pair names in the exact reverse order.
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## Symbol name exceptions
A small number of symbol names need to be written in a slightly different way than the exchange lists them on their site.
| Exchange | Symbol exceptions |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| binance | Use YOYOW instead of YOYO |
| bitfinex | For a few symbols, the API display name is required. These are:
IOTA = IOT
DASH = DSH
QTUM = QTM
DATA = DAT
QASH = QSH
|
| kraken | Use BTC instead of XBT |
## Pair naming for futures exchanges
On **Binance Futures** USDT margined pairs, naming works the same as for spot trading: USDT-BTC, USDT-LTC, etc. For coin margined pairs the correct format is: USD-BTC-PERP or USD-COIN-EXPIRYDATE.
The long and short sides on **Bybit** are split into separate pairs in Gunbot. Use USDT-BTC-LONG for the long side of your strategy and USDT-BTC-SHORT for the short side of your strategy. Each side pair can only open positions in that direction.
Pairs on **Bitmex** use almost the same symbols as on Bitmex itself, but with a hyphen-minus between the two asset names. Example: XBT-USD
Pairs on **Kraken Futures** follow the following conventions:
* Perpetual contracts: XBT-USD, ETH-USD, LTC-USD, etc.
* Monthly futures: XBT-MONTH, ETH-MONTH, LTC-MONTH, etc
* Quarterly futures: XBT-QUART, ETH-QUART, LTC-QUART, etc
Pairs on **Okex Futures** use the similar notation as on their site, with hyphens in between the different parts of the pair and swapping the symbols. Valid example: USD-BTC-201016
Pairs on **FTX** follow this pattern: XRP-PERP, BTC-PERP
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Make sure to use the correct [market type](/wiki/setup-and-general-settings/profile-settings/connect-exchange.md#market-selection), especially when using futures.
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## Override settings
Overrides are pair specific settings, overruling the assigned strategy. Every strategy parameter can be used as an override.
You can use this, for example, to set a different trading limit for a specific pair.
When adding overrides, you can choose from a list of all available strategy settings. See the strategy settings pages for which values are accepted for each individual parameter.
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Make sure to only add overrides for settings that actually have a function for the buy and sell methods of your strategy. See the strategy pages for detailed info about relevant settings.
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