Congressional Trader

Congressional Trader is a monitoring platform for the stock trades of U.S. lawmakers. Members of the House and Senate must disclose their trades under the STOCK Act; this platform aggregates those public filings into a unified dashboard, so tracking congressional trading activity stops requiring the manual reading of disclosure documents.

What does it show?

The core is a real-time feed of stock purchases and sales as lawmakers disclose them. On top of that sit the analytical layers: historical win rates measure each politician's stock performance against the S&P 500, and committee overlap analysis places trades in the context of the sectors a legislator oversees through committee assignments — the combination most followers of congressional trading actually care about. Custom alerts notify users the moment a tracked politician files a new disclosure, positioning them ahead of broader market reactions to the news. Expert analysis explains the significance of notable trades and wider trends for users who want interpretation, not just data.

Who is it for?

Retail investors who treat congressional disclosures as a trading signal, researchers and journalists covering conflicts of interest, and politically engaged observers who simply want visibility into how lawmakers trade around the sectors they regulate. The same dashboard serves all three — the investor reads it for the feed and alerts, the journalist for the committee overlap.

When would someone use it over the raw filings?

The filings are public but hostile to consumption: scattered documents, inconsistent formats, and no aggregation. Congressional Trader's value is the transformation into a queryable, watchable stream — performance metrics, context, and notifications layered over data that would otherwise require assembling by hand. For anyone checking more than occasionally, the dashboard replaces a recurring research chore.