{"id":186,"date":"2026-03-18T16:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/?p=186"},"modified":"2026-06-14T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:46:34","slug":"earning-1m-through-crypto-obsessive-tracking-in-a-good-way-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Earning \u00a31M Through Crypto: Obsessive Tracking (In A Good Way, Honest)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first year trying better ways to earn through crypto comes to an end in under 2 weeks (on 31 March, but 29 March is the closest Sunday), so I&#8217;ve been looking back at the year, at the losses, at the gains, at&#8230; how I don&#8217;t have any easy way to see what&#8217;s gaining and what isn&#8217;t. \ud83d\ude32<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I have my weekly numbers all neatly stored in Excel, with percentages and blah blah blah, but I don&#8217;t have a visual aid to really <em>see<\/em> how things are going.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even have a specific yearly target!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kinda obsessive about tracking, as you may have noticed, so I dug out the stuff I made for the 1% trading setup and had a think.<\/p>\n<p>The goal when I started was to double my investment each year. That&#8217;s a good goal for now, but I&#8217;ll expand it to doubling each category of my investment.<\/p>\n<p>Doing 1% trades and compounding the earnings, doubling needs about 70 trades in a year, depending on rounding errors.<\/p>\n<p>My original tracking followed the 1% increase every 1\/70th of a year (5 days and change), with dates going green when achieved or red when missed.<\/p>\n<p>It looked like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.publish0x.com\/prod\/fs\/images\/28ffbac6af31dda8202dcc868df687b82250a5928ceedbf78100ac6f946fae5f.png\" alt=\"Old tracking\" width=\"697\" height=\"264\" data-id=\"2med0gamK2Jg1bDN\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I figure I&#8217;ll use that again, so I replicated it 4 times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One for Trading (total)<\/li>\n<li>One for Copy Trading<\/li>\n<li>One for Banking (total)<\/li>\n<li>One for Dual Investment (because I hope it&#8217;ll gain massively)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It looks like this (the $ numbers are also replicated 4 times, off to the right, out of sight):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.publish0x.com\/prod\/fs\/images\/6e895dccb5fd21ba82300b1f5a7413aca3fa0ec03532f6d1a5c672245f2c2ab6.png\" alt=\"Excel tracking\" width=\"783\" height=\"473\" data-id=\"nR3a8klRyAegQpqE\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>In Excel<\/h2>\n<p>Setting up the dates and $ numbers is easy.<\/p>\n<p>Only the 1st date and $ entries are fixed. The others are all calculated from them, so you can easily change the start date\/amount and have everything re-figure itself.<\/p>\n<p>The $ increases are &#8220;=previous cell * 1.01&#8221;, the dates to hit are &#8220;= previous cell + (365\/70)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Getting the cells to change colour is the tough bit, mostly because Excel&#8217;s conditional formatting is bizarrely counter-intuitive (i.e. built really badly).<\/p>\n<p>You need 2 rules for each cell (though you only build them once and tell it to apply the same rule to the whole block).<\/p>\n<p>The red rule checks that the number in the $ block is bigger than the current amount (i.e. you haven&#8217;t hit the target) and that TODAY() is greater than the date in the date block.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s &#8220;=AND(number &gt; $current, TODAY() &gt; date)&#8221; &#8211; don&#8217;t forget the &#8220;current&#8221; value will be an absolute address, so it&#8217;s always the same cell.<\/p>\n<p>The green rule checks that the number in the $ block is less than or equal to the current amount. You can do that one with the rule builder, but don&#8217;t forget to make the current amount an absolute address again.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it. As the totals change, the trackers update with green\/red signals!<\/p>\n<h2>This Week&#8217;s Tracking<\/h2>\n<p>We have to check that it works, of course, so here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s tracking (based on Sunday&#8217;s numbers) with a lot of lovely greens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.publish0x.com\/prod\/fs\/images\/d28f56aad178c924d9da4d3399b2c6585c728b09b17042eee850973c861152ef.png\" alt=\"This week's tracking\" width=\"791\" height=\"479\" data-id=\"jeWozk679JKZ6NKA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both Banking and Trading would be well ahead of schedule to double, as you can see by future dates going green. And boo, copy trading sucks!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll set up the start dates and numbers when the new year starts, on 29 March. I&#8217;ll update my original 1% tracking to match, as well &#8211; might as well have the big total, starting at my original $14,000, to see if I can push through the negative and double it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you use any visual aids for tracking? 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