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Congressional Trades

Members of Congress trade stocks - and under the STOCK Act they must disclose every transaction. Quantora pulls the full stream of Senate and House filings and shows you who is buying and selling, by party, the net flow of dollars, the most-traded tickers, how long each member waited to disclose, and a link to every original filing.

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Congressional trading is one of the most-watched signals in retail markets - not because members are always right, but because they legislate and hold hearings on the very industries they invest in. The STOCK Act of 2012 requires senators and representatives to publicly report any stock, bond or fund transaction over $1,000 within 45 days. Those filings only disclose a range (for example, $1,001 to $15,000), so the dollar figures here are estimates built from the midpoint of each range. Watch two things especially: clusters, where several members buy the same name at once, and disclosure lag - the gap between when a trade happened and when it was reported. A long lag isn't illegal, but late filings (flagged here) are exactly what critics of congressional trading point to. Every row links to the original filing so you can verify it yourself.
Data aggregated from official U.S. House Clerk and U.S. Senate Electronic Financial Disclosure filings via the open-source congress-trading-monitor dataset (refreshed daily). Amounts are self-reported ranges; dollar estimates use range midpoints and are approximate. Disclosure timing is set by each filer. Public-record information for research and education only - not investment advice or a recommendation to trade any security.