Congress trading, explained
Deep dives on who in Congress is trading what, how the disclosure system really works, and free tools to track it yourself.
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Track Record
Every member's curated picks measured against the S&P 500, side by side.
Copy-Trade Calculator
See what $10,000 copied into a politician's trades would be worth today.
Most Active Traders
Who files the most stock trades in Congress, ranked.
Best Performers
The curated-alpha leaderboard: who actually beat the market.
Politician trackers
The full, sourced record for the most-watched traders.
Nancy Pelosi
The most-watched trader in Congress, and why most people copy her wrong.
Tommy Tuberville
Trading defense stocks from the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Ro Khanna
The loudest voice for a trading ban, and the household that keeps trading.
Josh Gottheimer
One of the most prolific traders, on the committee that oversees the banks he trades.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
From a dormant portfolio to hundreds of trades and a 476% reported gain.
Dan Crenshaw
The intelligence-subcommittee chair who owned zero defense stocks.
Rob Bresnahan
The ban-bill author who kept trading Medicaid stocks.
Mike Kelly
The Cleveland-Cliffs trade that drew a rare House Ethics reproval.
Josh Hawley
The senator with nothing to track, and the ban bill he keeps pushing.
By sector
Where committee power and stock positions overlap.
Defense
The sector where Congress is effectively the only customer.
Big Tech
Who holds Apple, Google, Meta and Amazon during active antitrust oversight.
AI & Semiconductors
Chip stocks, export controls, and the trades around them.
Energy
The sector where federal decisions move the stocks most directly.
Pharma & Biotech
FDA approvals and Medicare pricing make the federal layer dominant.
Health Insurance
Five conglomerates whose margins ride on policy in a few committee rooms.
Crypto & Stablecoins
Who is writing the rules while holding the assets.
Tariff Trades, 2025
The trades clustered around the April 2025 tariff selloff and pause.
Trade deep-dives
Single trades, taken apart.
Guides & explainers
How the disclosure system actually works.
The STOCK Act
The 2012 law that made congressional trades public, and what it does not do.
STOCK Act Loopholes
The 45-day delay, the $200 fine, and the gaps that remain.
The Congressional Trading Ban
Where the effort to ban member trading actually stands.
Ban Bills Compared
Every active reform bill, side by side.
How to Read a Disclosure
Every field, bracket and owner code in a PTR, decoded.
The Spouse Loophole
Why most high-profile trades are legally a spouse, and why it matters.
Committee Conflicts of Interest
When lawmakers trade the sectors their committees oversee.
Insider Trading Examples
The documented cases, from Collins to Burr to Pelosi.
Do They Beat the Market?
What the academic evidence actually says about copying Congress.
Political Intelligence Investing
How information advantage turns into market positions.
Compare & review
How Kapitol.ai stacks up, and what the alternatives do.
vs Unusual Whales
The smarter alternative for congressional trade intelligence.
vs Autopilot
Curated signal versus blind auto-mirroring of every trade.
vs Capitol Trades
Raw disclosure browsing versus scored, explained picks.
Best Congress Trackers
The major tracking tools in 2026, ranked and reviewed.
NANC ETF Review
The fund that tries to replicate Democratic congressional trades.
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