Exporting Bitget trade history and keeping cost-basis notes that hold up later
Record keeping sounds dull until the moment you need it: a question from your tax adviser, a disputed deposit, or simply wanting to know whether a strategy actually made money. Bitget keeps your history, but the exports only help if you download them regularly, keep the originals intact and write down the context the files leave out, such as why coins moved to another wallet. This guide covers where the exports live, how to store them and which notes are worth adding. It is not tax advice; ask a qualified adviser how German rules apply to you.
Where the history lives in Bitget
On the web, open Assets and then the order or transaction history area. Spot orders, futures orders, deposits, withdrawals and internal transfers sit under separate tabs, and each has its own filter for date range and coin. Futures records also include funding payments and realised profit and loss, which are easy to miss if you only look at fills. Before exporting, scroll through a month you remember well and check that what you see matches your memory; if it does not, investigate now rather than later.
Download in manageable chunks
Use the export or download option on each tab and choose a date range. Long ranges may be limited per request, so working month by month is usually smoother. Name each file with the account, record type and period, for example spot fills for March, and put them in one folder per year. Keep the downloaded files exactly as they arrived. Do your sorting and formulas in a copy, so that the original can always be produced if someone asks where a figure came from.
Add the context the files do not contain
Exports list what happened, not why. Keep a short log beside them: which withdrawals went to your own hardware wallet, which deposits came from another exchange, and when you converted small balances. Note the transaction hash for every on-chain move, since that is what links the Bitget record to the wallet on the other side. Without this, a transfer to yourself can look like a sale when you or an adviser review the year.
A routine that takes ten minutes a month
Pick a fixed day, export the previous month from every tab you used, and update the log. While you are in the account, open Security and glance at the device list and recent login history. Unknown activity is much easier to deal with when it is a few days old than when you notice it in a yearly review.
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Scenario checkpoint
- Export spot, futures, deposit, withdrawal and transfer tabs separately for each month
- Keep the original downloads untouched and work only in a copied spreadsheet
- Log the transaction hash and purpose of every withdrawal to a wallet you control