It is amazingly confusing for me to understand whether to buy ETH or BTC to trade for ALTS. I plan on holding a good % of BTC and ETH in my portfolio, but when it comes to these fluctuating BTC and ETH prices, I'm never sure whether to buy one first to trade for ALT coins.
Any suggestions?
Buy BTC first, it is the main thing. The next you should go for is Ethereum or maybe Ripple (but mainly ETH)
you can even exchange any coin for another with ShapeShift. You can visit ShapeShift.com to exchange one coin to anotherfor example BTC to ETH or ETH to XRP. Some wallets even have got the ShapeShiftfeature so you can do the swap from there.