I built a system that tracks every stock trade members of Congress make.
It scores which ones are worth paying attention to.
30,000+ trades indexed. Flagged trades hit ~70% over 2 months. Ignored ones: 49%
The edge is real. I'll be posting what it catches. π
If a member of Congress outperforms the S&P by 20%+ for 3 straight years, that's not skill. π
That's insider information with extra steps.
Name ONE retail trader who beats the market by that margin.
Reminder: Congress sold over $100M in stock in the weeks before the COVID crash.
That's not a conspiracy theory. That's public disclosure.
I built Capitol Lens so retail traders could see the same patterns.
All in real time, all for free.
In February, my system flagged something unusual...
30+ members of Congress started buying the same stock within weeks of each other.
A Senator on Banking put $5M+ in over multiple weeks.
The ticker in the replies. π
When 3+ members of Congress *from both parties* buy the same stock in the same month.... Pay attention!
Bipartisan clusters are the strongest signal in my model.
They rarely agree on anything. When they agree on a trade, there's always a reason
Members with committee oversight over a sector consistently outperform in that sector.
Banking Committee --> financials.
Armed Services --> defence.
HELP Committee --> biotech.
This isn't random folks, and its not luck. It's information asymmetry.
Congress traded over $180M in individual stocks last year.
89% of those trades weren't worth shit.
The 11% that were? Beat the S&P by a wide margin.
Knowing which trades matter IS THE GAME.
I'm not a Wall Street guy. I'm a student.
Congress has to disclose their trades. Nobody was organizing the data into something more than a spreadsheet.
So I built Capitol Lens.