Lately, I’ve been reading discussions about ETF fund flows. A lot of people link U.S. stock market risk appetite with whether crypto is going up or down, and it’s made me start taking a serious look at how I should organize my trading records from before.

Me back then: I only remembered to check exchange statements at the end of the year. Then I found a bunch of transfer records that didn’t match, and I just went blank. My current habit: I export a CSV once a month, right on the go, save it into folders by category, and for on-chain interactions I screenshot—keeping the wallet address and timestamp. There’s a lot more data now, and you can look it up on-chain, but when it actually comes time to reconcile at year-end, it saves me a ton of work.

Oh, and lately everyone’s been talking about how macro sentiment affects things—funds moving back and forth between BTC and altcoins. I personally feel that if you record every single action you take and you’re clear in your own head, it’s more grounded and reassuring than blindly chasing pumps and making dump decisions. For now, I’ll keep it like this—no need to lose it when tax season rolls around.