The more I look at it, the more I feel that at the end of the year, the thing that really drives me crazy isn’t the market—it’s going through the transaction records… Put simply: if you just recklessly go all-in with a quick trade / cut in and out, then in December it’ll give you back the exact same thing.

Why I can stay a little calmer: I’ve got a pretty plain, boring habit. Every time I switch positions or make big deposits or withdrawals, I jot down in my notes a sentence like “what I was acting on,” and then I throw the trade details exported that day, plus the on-chain transfer hash, into the same folder and save it month by month. I’m not trying to be super meticulous—just making sure I can connect “where this came from and where it went.”

Also, lately it’s not like people haven’t been complaining that the on-chain data tools and the address label system are pretty laggy, and that they might even mislead you—so I’m not really comfortable trusting automatic categorization 100% right now. I’d rather keep one extra layer of original proof myself. That way, when it’s time to declare / reconcile, I won’t have to rely on memory to make up a story… for now, that’s all.