# Explanation please **URL:** \ **Category:** Counterwallet\ **Created:** [December 13, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/explanation-please/4176 "2017-12-13T23:40:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![foldinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e8cbc/32.png) [@foldinger](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/foldinger)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/explanation-please/4176/2 "2017-12-14T09:46:18Z")
Yes BTC exchange at counterwallet is bad. It is better to exchange for XCP first at e.g. Bittrex. Then transfer to counterwallet and exchange for other assets not available on Bittrex. Buy or sell orders in counterwallet are directly written to the blockchain, also cancel orders which each cost fee. That is different to other exchanges. You need to adjust the transaction fee to use a custom low fee. But with current high BTC prices the best time to do any transaction or oders is weekends. > [@I try to buy some XCP, but order expires every time](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/i-try-to-buy-some-xcp-but-order-expires-every-time/4156): > > Hello! I tried to make some orders to buy XCP, but all of it expires after matches and pendings. Please take a look on my [orders](https://xchain.io/address/1BBj4yJSq3UUgAxiExiM2zMinbYxrzsmDX#orders)[in this link](https://xchain.io/tx/1135500) you can see that it matched to someones sell order. then they became pending for some hours and expires. my first order i place by the price 0.0005999 , but when it was finally placed the price became 0.0005998 . i guess because of rounding the numbers by the trade system. so this order should not find the pair, later i made another orders with higher … --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/explanation-please/4176)._