Public Trades, Your Fills and Account Records: A Checklist
Identify what a public trade, an own fill and a ledger entry can establish. Keep source scope, related identifiers and completeness visible.
Classify the record before interpreting it
A public trade record describes activity in a market. An own fill record describes an execution associated with your account, and a ledger entry describes a movement in an asset balance. They may share a price, time or reference, but they answer different questions. Classify the source before using a row as evidence about your own order or account.
Separate market observation from own execution evidence
A public market observation can help establish that a trade occurred on the documented pair. It does not identify that trade as yours simply because the numbers resemble an expected execution. Retain the source scope and collection time. When the question is whether your own order filled, look for an existing own execution record associated with the relevant identity rather than a coincidental public match.
Link own fill identifiers to related account movements
Own execution records and account movements can be linked through documented identifiers. Kraken's authenticated trade history describes fills and can include related ledger identifiers; its ledger documentation describes assets, amounts, fees and balances. Preserve the relationship rather than collapsing every row into a profit entry. A transfer, an execution and a fee can require different interpretations even when they belong to one review.
Record extraction scope and unresolved history
Completeness is another property of the evidence. A finite response or exported page may cover only part of the history. Record the extraction range, any known boundary and unresolved omissions alongside the rows you kept. The absence of a row in that limited set is not automatically proof that an event never happened; likewise, a list of recent rows is not a complete account audit.
Use the provenance checklist
The CSV offers fields for scope, identifiers, event time, extraction range and source reference. Keep private records offline while completing it; the download itself is blank and collects nothing. The TXT helps review what each source can establish. This guide organizes provenance rather than calculating cash reconciliation, funding totals, returns or whether an account's entire history is correct.
Documented venue distinctions
These statements apply to the named provider and documented product. They do not imply identical rules elsewhere.
- Kraken public trades describe the market for a pair, without establishing ownership of an observed execution. Official reference.
- Kraken authenticated trade history describes own fills with order and optional related ledger identifiers. Official reference.
- Kraken ledger documentation describes asset movements, fees and balances; a finite response is not automatically a complete history. Official reference.
Hypothetical case
Hypothetical public market trade matches an expected price and time. It remains a market observation. An own authenticated fill record provides separate execution evidence, and related ledger identifiers can support a separate movement review.
Six questions for your record
- Is this a public market record, own fill or ledger entry?
- What source and product produced it?
- What identifier links it to the order or account movement?
- What time field does the record describe?
- What extraction range or page boundary is known?
- What conclusion is supported and what remains unknown?
Keep your own record
The CSV contains column headings only. The TXT contains the review questions and blank note spaces. Keep original evidence separately, preserve identifiers as text and leave missing facts unknown. Neither file sends data or performs an account check.