Uniswap shows you the fees your position earns, never what the pool’s rebalancing costs you. I ran the full numbers on five months of EURC/USDC liquidity, and the pool wasn’t what lost me money.
Binance’s screen only shows the last few weeks, and its export button offers three reports that don’t hold the same data. Here’s which one to ask for depending on what you need, how to go back several years in one go, and what to watch for once the file is open.
A token you never bought just showed up in your wallet, sometimes with a tempting dollar value or a website in its name. It can’t take anything from you as long as you leave it alone. Here’s what it’s after, and how to tell it apart from the real thing.
What a $1,000 bitcoin purchase really costs on 24 platforms, from 20 cents to about $28, which ones serve your state, and how much of your history each lets you get back. That last point matters more since Form 1099-DA.
A portfolio tracker asks for an API key, and you hesitate. That’s healthy: set up properly, the key can only read your history, and the exchange itself refuses everything else.
A DCA calculator tells you what dollar cost averaging would have returned. It doesn’t tell you how yours is doing, with your real buys, fees and transfers. Here is how to track it month after month, and what 35 months of a real bitcoin DCA actually show.
Aave shows you an APY, but that isn’t what you earn. Between that rate and your real yield sit three transactions paid in ETH, and on a small amount they can wipe out everything.
Your Ledger sits in a drawer, and you want to see its balance next to your exchanges without plugging it in every time. A public address is enough on most blockchains; on Bitcoin you need the xpub, and it deserves a few precautions.
Your exchange shows a green “Today’s PnL”, your wallet shows nothing, and you still don’t know how much you’ve made. The answer takes two numbers, realized and unrealized, worked out across all your accounts at once.
A crypto tracker spreadsheet has three jobs: what you hold, what it cost you, what it’s worth. Most free templates handle the last one and get the first two wrong as soon as your coins live on more than one account.
You bought bitcoin on Kraken, then on Coinbase, and each app shows its own “average cost”. Neither is yours: the only cost basis that counts is calculated across all your accounts at once.
