Lately, I've been a bit anxious about taxes and reporting. Honestly, I'm not afraid of earning less; I'm just worried about reconciling accounts at the end of the year and questioning my life choices... My current rough method: every time I make a large trade, I take a screenshot, export transaction records and deposit/withdrawal records from the exchange and save them to the cloud monthly. On-chain, I label my frequently used addresses (otherwise, in a few months, I might forget what that transaction was for). The most annoying thing about DeFi is all the small interactions; I at least make sure the "entry/exit" points match up. The rest I leave uncalculated for now, to be filled in gradually later.

The recent hype about rate cut expectations has been quite noisy too. The US dollar index and risk assets are moving together, up and down, as if the whole world is looking for reasons to surge. But I actually prefer to organize my records well, so I don’t get caught making impulsive moves when the market heats up.

What I fear most isn’t missing out on opportunities, but losing my trading history and having to rely on memory to piece everything together at the end of the year—an awkward situation.