Congressional Trader
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TrackerUpdated May 11, 2026

Congressional Stock Trading Tracker

Congressional Trader turns public STOCK Act disclosures into a searchable tracker for lawmakers, tickers, sectors, and notable trades.

What the tracker covers

Members of Congress and covered family members must disclose many stock, option, and securities transactions under the STOCK Act. The public filings include the lawmaker, transaction date, filing date, asset, transaction type, and a dollar range rather than an exact amount.

A useful tracker needs to preserve that uncertainty instead of pretending the data is exact. Congressional Trader keeps amount ranges visible, shows filing delay, and routes each trade into politician, ticker, sector, and state pages.

  • Search by politician, ticker, party, chamber, state, and transaction type.
  • Use notable trade flags to find large, fast-filed, or committee-relevant disclosures.
  • Follow politician and ticker pages when you want repeat monitoring instead of one-off browsing.

How to interpret a disclosure

The trade date is when the transaction happened. The filing date is when the disclosure became public. That gap matters because the legal window can make a trade weeks old before the market sees it.

Purchases, large reported ranges, fast filings, and committee overlap usually deserve more attention than small routine sales. None of those signals proves intent or predicts returns on its own.

Best next step

Start with the live feed if you want the newest filings. Use the leaderboard if you want historical performance context. Use politician pages if you care about a specific lawmaker's pattern over time.

How to read this research

Public source

Built from House and Senate STOCK Act disclosures, not anonymous tips.

Range-aware

Reported amounts are shown as disclosure ranges instead of fake precision.

Context first

Filing delay, transaction type, and committee relevance are treated as separate signals.

Weekly trade digest

Five notable congressional trades, source links, and plain-English context every Sunday.

Next research paths

FAQ

Is congressional stock trading data public?

Yes. STOCK Act disclosures are public, but they are spread across official House and Senate systems and can be difficult to monitor manually.

Are disclosures real-time?

No. The law allows delayed reporting, so a newly filed disclosure may describe a trade that happened days or weeks earlier.