House trade report card
Members of the U.S. House must publicly report their stock trades. This site collects those reports and asks: if you had copied each member's trades once they became public, how would you have done compared with simply buying the S&P 500 (a fund of 500 large U.S. companies)?
Loading results… In this look back at past trades, copying would have worked best: buying each of their trades the day after it was disclosed would have returned , against for the same dollars in the S&P 500.
This is a backtest of past disclosures, not investment advice. Members report trades weeks after making them, amounts are reported as ranges, and option trades are copied as the underlying stock, so a follower cannot match their results exactly. Past results do not predict future ones.
Copy-trade results by member
What you would have earned by buying each member's disclosed purchases at the close after the report was filed, sized like their trades, and selling when they disclosed a sale. "Edge" is that return minus the S&P 500's with the same dollars on the same days. "Delay cost" is how far their stocks moved, in their favor, between their trade and the report: the part of their gain a follower could not get. Members with fewer than 3 copied buys are not ranked. Tap or click a member to follow them; a ✓ marks the ones you follow. The chart and follow list below combine everyone you pick.
Copy portfolio vs the S&P 500
Follow list
Positions the members you follow bought and have not reported selling, newest report first. "Their weight" is the share of that member's copied portfolio the position makes up today. "Example amount" shows how the sum in "If you had put in" would split: equally across the members you follow, then by their weights. "Example shares" is about how many shares that comes to at the last closing price. "Member paid" and "Copy paid" are average prices when the member traded and when a follower could first have copied the trade. The 52-week bar shows where the last price sits between the year's low and high. Prices are closing prices from the last update, not live quotes, and past prices are adjusted for dividends and splits. This illustrates past reports; it is not a suggestion to buy or sell anything.
— has the top grade (—). Of — trades with a month of prices after them, — beat the S&P 500 by 10 points or more in the following 30 days. Pick a member in the report card to read the timing note on each of their trades.
Members per grade
Click a bar to show only that grade in the report card. Click it again to show all.
How grades work
Each part is a percentile rank against the other members, from 0 to 100.
- Performance, 50%
- How each trade did against the S&P 500 from the trade date to today. A purchase scores when the stock then beat the index; a sale scores when the stock then lagged it. Larger trades count more. Members whose trades are all bonds or private funds get a neutral 50.
- Activity, 25%
- Number of trades and estimated dollar volume, using the midpoint of each reported range.
- Committees, 25%
- Influence of the member's committee seats, with extra for chairs and ranking members, plus the share of their trades in sectors those committees oversee.
- Grades
- A is 80 and up, B 65, C 50, D 35, F below 35.
Report card
"Vs S&P 500" is the size-weighted average of each trade's return minus the index's over the same period, signed so positive helped the member. Click a member to see their trades below.
Trade timing
How each stock moved against the S&P 500 in the 7, 30 and 90 days after the trade, signed so positive means the timing helped the member (a stock rising after a purchase, or falling after a sale). A trade is well-timed when that 30-day figure is +10% or more. A large move soon after a trade can point to news the member traded ahead of; the ticker links to a news search for the 30 days after the trade. Timing alone does not show the member knew anything in advance.