Ah, yikes! Good point. One has to factor in not only the trading fees but the potential fees incurred in preparing ones taxes (or having them prepared by a third-party as many in the US usually do -- I wouldn't even want to know what my tax guy would charge for that kind of volume!)
You could. For me, 1 BTC is a negligible amount that was worth not having to manage the abstraction overhead of a simulation mode.