If you are looking for Coinbase Pro in Moonitor, the entry you want is called Coinbase. The name changed, the market did not, and this page explains both.
The short version: pick Coinbase, use the USD pairs, and your holdings are priced against the same order book you traded on.
What happened to Coinbase Pro
Coinbase retired Coinbase Pro as a separate retail product in 2022 and folded its features into the main Coinbase app as Advanced Trade. If you had a Coinbase Pro account, it became a Coinbase account, and the standalone site stopped being where you traded.
The platform underneath did not go away. It continues as Coinbase Exchange, and it is still where the order books and the public market data live. That feed is what Moonitor reads, and it is current.
Older versions of Moonitor listed it under the old name. It now says Coinbase, which is what the product is called.
Coinbase, Coinbase Pro and Coinbase Prime
Three names, one that matters:
- Coinbase is the retail app most people buy through, and it is the entry in Moonitor's exchange list.
- Coinbase Pro is the old name for the advanced trading platform. Same market, retired brand.
- Coinbase Prime is the separate institutional venue. Unless you know you use Prime, you do not.
If you bought coins in the regular Coinbase app, choose Coinbase in Moonitor. You are pricing against the same underlying market.
Dollars, not stablecoins
This is the practical reason to prefer Coinbase over most alternatives if you are American.
Nearly every other exchange quotes against USDT, a dollar stablecoin. Coinbase quotes mainly against actual US dollars, so BTC/USD is a real dollar price from a US regulated venue rather than a stablecoin price that tracks the dollar closely but not perfectly.
For portfolio totals the difference is normally small. It stops being small when a stablecoin loses its peg, which has happened before and will happen again. A portfolio priced in USDT inherits USDT's problems. One priced in USD does not.
Coinbase does list some USDT pairs too. Prefer the USD ones.
Setting it up
- In Add transaction, pick your coin and choose Coinbase as the exchange.
- Search for your pair. Use the USD version, for example
BTC/USD, rather than USDT where both exist. - Enter each purchase with the amount and the price you paid.
Enter buys one at a time rather than as a single averaged position, so Moonitor can work out your average cost properly. See how to track crypto profit and loss.
If you picked the wrong pair, it is not permanent. Settings has a Pricing section listing every coin and the market it is priced from, and you can change any of them.
Fees will make your figures look better than they were
Worth flagging on this exchange in particular. If you bought through the simple Coinbase interface rather than Advanced Trade, you probably paid a noticeably higher fee than the order book price suggests.
Moonitor records the price you enter. Enter the headline market price and your cost looks lower than it was, which makes your profit look larger than it was. Enter what you were actually charged: total paid divided by the amount you actually received.
Coins Coinbase does not list
Coinbase lists fewer assets than Binance or KuCoin, and it is slower to add new ones. If you hold something it does not list, price that coin through an exchange that does. All 16 are in supported exchanges.
