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Differences between ledger and trades history
Last updated: August 24, 2026
There are two main kinds of account history that clients can view or export: Ledger and Trades.
Ledger history
Ledger history focuses on changes to account balances.
It answers questions like:
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How much was debited from a currency balance? (and the reason for it, e.g. fees, withdrawal, trading or the result of settled or otherwise closed trades using margin).
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How much was credited to a currency balance? (and the reason for it, e.g. deposit, trading or the result of settled or otherwise closed trades using margin).
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How many fees, and in which currency, were paid to Kraken?
Working with Ledger history:
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To find what a currency was traded for, look for a matching refid.
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To find which open spot margin position specific rollover fees are associated with, look for a matching refid.
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If you see several deductions from different currencies but with the same
refid and type 'margin', that's likely the result of a liquidation.
For more details, see explanation of ledger fields.
Trades history
Trades history focuses on the execution details of spot transactions (the matching of sell orders with buy orders and vice versa) with or without the use of margin.
It answers questions like:
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What was a balance traded for?
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The exchange rate for that trade?
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The order type used?
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Which executions were related to a specific order?
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The fee estimate in terms of the quote currency (NOT necessarily the actual amount that was deducted).
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The level of leverage used (for spot trades made using margin).
Note:
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Trades history only shows executed or partially executed orders. It does not show cancelled/untouched orders.
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Trades history does not include the details of transactions conducted via the Buy Crypto Widget or Kraken app. This information will only be present in the Ledger history.
For more details, see explanation of trade fields.
Example: the same trade in each view
Suppose you buy 0.05 BTC with EUR at a price of €60,000 per BTC (total cost €3,000.00, fee €7.80). Here is how that single transaction appears in each type of history:
Ledger history — two entries (one per currency), linked by the same refid:
refid | type | asset | amount | fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
TSTRD1-EXMPL-000001 | trade | EUR | -3,000.00 | 7.80 |
TSTRD1-EXMPL-000001 | trade | BTC | +0.05 | 0.00 |
Trades history — one entry showing the execution details:
ordertxid | pair | type | price | cost | fee | volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OEXMPL-000001 | BTC/EUR | buy | 60,000.00 | 3,000.00 | 7.80 | 0.05 |
Key differences to notice:
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The Ledger records the trade as balance changes: EUR is debited and BTC is credited, each as a separate entry sharing the same refid.
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The Trades history records the trade as a single execution, including the pair, price, order side and volume — details that do not appear in the Ledger.
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The fee in Trades history is an estimate in the quote currency, while the Ledger shows the fee actually deducted from your balance.