Caleb, a few pointers -
First, always clear your log right before you begin tracing. There is a lot of data captured so this helps narrow it down.
Next, I’d use a special viewer to work with the XML tags. I like notepad++. If you tell it that your doc is XML you can actually collapse records. It makes it much easier to navigate and then drill down.
As far as your specific problem - I’m not sure, I wouldn’t expect that it is making any transactions.