Reading Congressional Trades
Members of Congress trade individual stocks while sitting on the committees that write the rules for those very industries. They're required to disclose it under the STOCK Act — but the filings are buried where almost nobody reads them in time. Academic studies have found these trades tend to beat the market. We won't promise you that; we'll just put the filings in front of you.
A representative on the tech committee buying semiconductors is telling you something no press release ever will. The disclosures are public by law — the edge is simply reading them before they go cold.
One member buying is noise. Three buying the same name inside two weeks is a cluster — independent calls landing on the same stock. And when that cluster runs bipartisan — both sides buying despite agreeing on nothing else — it's about as loud as this data gets.
Trades are disclosed days to weeks after they happen, and we update as new filings post. That makes this a read on conviction, not a real-time trigger. Treat a fresh cluster as a reason to look, not a reason to chase.
We turn the raw filings into a 0–100 read per stock and a leaderboard of who's most active, by party and chamber. It's one of several sources, not the whole answer — it earns its weight when it lines up with the rest of the board.
This is free, legally-required data that's nearly useless buried in a government portal. Pulling it the day it posts, scoring it, and flagging the clusters is one more edge on the pile — not a crystal ball, just a window most people never bother to open.