Your completed Steam trades are in View Trade History, reached from Inventory through Trade Offers or the three-dot menu. If you are tracing an item, keep that record separate from pending offers and Community Market transactions: they answer different questions about what happened.
The record you are looking for
Trade History is the record to use when you want to review completed trades on your own account. It is not a running list of every offer you have sent or received, and it is not your selling history on the Community Market. An offer that never completed belongs in the offer records instead. Trade history is the right place to start only if the item may have changed hands through a completed trade.
Steam account access to have ready
Sign in to the Steam account whose trades you want to check. The documented route starts from that account’s Inventory. You do not need a link to someone else’s profile to inspect your own record.
Open Trade Offers from your Inventory
Open Inventory, then select Trade Offers. Steam identifies the Trade Offers page as one route to trade history. You can also reach the same steam trade log from Inventory’s three-dot drop-down.
Select View Trade History
On the Trade Offers page, select View Trade History. That takes you to your completed-trade record, so an offer that is still pending does not belong there. A declined or canceled offer never became a completed trade; inactive offers have a separate offer history that is the better place to check what happened to one of those requests.
A pending offer is also different from a trade hold. An offer awaits action, while a hold delays the movement of items in a trade. Steam’s trade restrictions also include market holds, market purchase cooldowns, and Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) Trade Protection; those labels do not all describe the same delay.
Scan your completed trades
Look through the entries for the item and the trade you need to identify. If it is not among the first entries shown, continue through the available history rather than assuming a fixed cutoff: Steam’s trade-history API documentation describes paging through earlier trades but states no fixed historical cutoff. That is not a promise that a particular entry will be easy to locate in the account interface.
You cannot tidy this record by removing an unwanted entry, according to a Steam Community answer. That is a user’s answer, not a stated Steam deletion policy. If an entry is unfamiliar, treat it as a security concern and use the response below. A completed trade should not be confused with an eligible CS2 Trade Protected trade, which may have a specific reversal route and consequences.
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Open the matching record for offers or sales
If the event is missing from completed trades, match the event to the account record that actually tracks it:
| What happened | Where to look |
|---|---|
| An offer became inactive, including one that was declined or canceled | Offer history, rather than completed Trade History |
| You sold or bought an item on the Community Market | Community Market activity or Account Details |
| You want to trace a change in the items held by your account | Inventory changes |
| You want to review an account purchase | Purchase history |
Steam treats these as separate account records. In particular, a Market sale will not turn up just because you search further back through completed trades.
Inspect another account’s public inventory
Someone else’s profile may let you inspect their currently visible inventory. Visibility depends on whether they have set it to Public, Friends Only, or Private; a Public inventory is visible to anyone, while a Private one is visible only to its owner.
An inventory is not that person’s completed-trade log. Seeing a CS2 skin there does not tell you its previous owners or what anyone paid for it in a private trade, and another user’s trade history cannot be opened through their public profile. If you are assessing an item or a prospective trade, use the visible inventory for what it shows now, not as proof of the item’s transaction history.
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Locate your Steam Trade URL
If you meant the link people use to send you offers, go from Inventory to Trade Offers, then select Who can send me trade offers? Your Steam Trade URL appears near the bottom of that page, which also has an option to generate a new URL.
Sharing the URL lets someone send an offer that you can accept or decline. It does not give them access to your account or completed-trade history. If you intend strangers or a third-party trading site to use the link, your inventory needs to be Public, according to Tradeit’s Trade URL guide.
When the trade does not match what you expected
- An offer is pending, or items have not moved. Check the offer’s status first. If a trade is under a hold, the items are delayed rather than simply waiting for you to accept an offer. Recent Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator changes, password changes, or a login from a new device or browser can be associated with trading delays. Enabling the authenticator after an active hold begins does not clear that hold; its timer must expire.
- You cannot trade and suspect an account restriction. Check the restriction shown on your Steam account before assuming that a missing history entry explains it. An account limitation, an offer awaiting action, and a trade hold call for different responses; Trade History is a record of trades, not a way to remove a trading restriction.
- A trade or offer is unfamiliar. If the offer is still pending, cancel it before it completes. If an unauthorized transaction has occurred, change your Steam password, secure the associated email account, and review your Steam Guard confirmations, as the account-security guidance advises.
- You want to undo a completed trade. Check whether it qualifies for Steam’s CS2 Trade Protected self-service reversal rather than treating cancellation of a pending offer as the same thing. Eligible protected trades can be reversed within seven days, but the reversal terms say that doing so returns all protected trades from that period and imposes a 30-day trading and Community Market restriction on the initiating account.
Completed trades have their own record
Your own completed-trade record is accessible through Inventory and Trade Offers. An inactive offer or a Market transaction belongs in its separate account record, while another person’s public inventory shows visible items rather than their private trade log. That distinction determines where to look next when an item, offer, or sale is not where you expected it. If you want a simpler way to manage your CS2 skins going forward, you can trade CS2 skins on Skinvault or browse skins available to buy on Skinvault without the back-and-forth of Steam offers.
