Deribit trading journal: the transaction log, inverse contracts and options

Last checked: 8 October 2026. Exchange menus, fees and rules change, so confirm on the exchange’s own site before you rely on them.

Deribit is the largest crypto options venue and also lists futures and perpetuals. Coinbase completed its acquisition of Deribit on 14 August 2025, and the exchange continues to operate under its own name. For a journal, the important facts are about the contracts, not the owner: inverse settlement, continuous funding, and options with very different risk shapes from a perp.

Export the transaction log

1. Open the Transaction Log for the account and currency you want.
2. Set the timeframe and run the query.
3. Download the CSV. It covers only the current account or subaccount and the selected currency, so repeat for each.

For a full year in one go, the main account can request a yearly export: Transaction Logs › Export, choose the year (2023 onward), add any CC recipients and confirm with your security key. It covers every asset and subaccount and is sent by email.

The CSV columns include Date, Instrument, Type, Side, Amount, Price, Mark Price, Index Price, Cash Flow, Funding, Fee rate, Fee charged, Change. If you need older history or automation, the API method private/get_transaction_log returns up to 1,000 rows a call with a continuation cursor.

Deribit’s help page and its API docs describe the reach of the website export differently. If an older year is missing from your download, use the API.

Inverse contracts: R in BTC or R in USD?

Deribit’s BTC perpetual is inverse: you trade a dollar amount, and profit is paid in BTC. Profit in BTC is size in USD × (1/entry − 1/exit) for a long. That curve means a dollar move up is worth less BTC than the same dollar move down.

Options: the premium is your risk

When you buy an option, the most you can lose is the premium. That is your 1R, and you do not need a stop for R to work.

Funding is continuous

Deribit perpetual funding accrues continuously into your session P&L, quoted as an 8-hour rate applied to the time you actually held, and settles daily at 08:00 UTC. It appears in settlement entries in the log rather than as its own type. There is no funding window to sidestep, and a position opened at 07:59 UTC settles a minute of funding a minute later. Read the Funding column next to each settlement and add the amounts for the time you held each trade.

In the RB Trading journal

• Use a separate account per currency. A BTC-settled account and a USDC account should not share stats. The journal keeps accounts separate and can still show them together.
• Import through the generic mapper. The log already has Instrument, Side, Amount and Price. Delete the Fee rate column and rename Fee charged to Fee, so the mapper picks up the amount rather than the rate. Keep only trade rows, removing settlement and transfer rows before import.
• Add funding to the swap field from the settlement rows, and set the stop on each perp trade so R appears.
• For options, the premium is the risk. Log the option price as entry and exit, and write the premium plus fees in the notes as 1R. The R-multiple calculator gives you the figure in one step.

Deribit spot trades also appear in the transaction log and currently carry zero trading fees. Check Deribit’s fee page, as a new schedule took effect on 1 August 2026.