Congress Stock Trade Tracker
U.S. politicians disclose their trades — late, quietly, and most people never read them. We do. See what Washington is buying and selling. Trade where Washington trades.
What is the Congress Trade Tracker?
The Congress Trade Tracker aggregates public stock trade disclosures filed by U.S. Senators and Representatives under the STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, 2012). Every member of Congress is legally required to report personal securities transactions — buys and sells — within 45 days of execution. These filings are public record, but they are scattered across government databases and rarely surface where traders can act on them.
Why congressional stock trades matter
Members of Congress sit on committees that oversee defense, technology, healthcare, energy, and financial regulation — sectors where policy decisions move markets. Academic studies, including the widely cited "Abnormal Returns from the Common Stock Investments of the U.S. Senate" (Ziobrowski et al., 2004), found that Senate portfolios outperformed the market by approximately 85 basis points per month. While debate continues over the exact cause, the structural information advantage is real: legislators see regulatory proposals, classified briefings, and budget decisions before the public does.
This tracker shows you the trades as soon as they are publicly disclosed. The 45-day lag means these are not real-time signals — but clusters of buying in a sector, or a high-profile legislator accumulating a position, can still be meaningful context for your own research.
How CHESKO 2.0 uses congressional data
CHESKO 2.0 is the Ballad Markets AI fund manager desk. It ingests congressional trade disclosures as one of several signal layers — alongside insider Form 4 purchases, squeeze momentum from the Ballad Scanner, and Price Action AI confluence — to build a structured view of where institutional and politically connected capital is flowing.
When a congressional trade aligns with an accumulation pattern on the scanner and an insider buy in the same ticker, CHESKO flags it as a high-confluence candidate. No single signal is acted on in isolation. The human layer — Rafael Acevedo’s house view — reviews every position before any paper execution. This is not algorithmic copy-trading. It is structured research.
Data sources and methodology
- Source: Quiver Quantitative congressional disclosure aggregator + FMP Senate/House latest endpoints (free tier fallback). Both draw from EDGAR and eFD disclosures.
- Coverage: U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Includes equity buys, sells, and exchange-traded funds.
- Lag: Disclosures are required within 45 days of the transaction. Most legislators file within 30 days.
- Disclaimer: This tracker is informational only. Congressional trades are not predictive and do not constitute financial advice.
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CHESKO 2.0 is an AI fund manager that uses congressional trades, insider buys, and machine-learning confluence to position before the crowd — with a real human market read in the loop.
Data from public congressional disclosures. Informational only · not financial advice.