Congressional stock trades

Whose trades aged best

Median excess return versus the S&P 500 six months after disclosure. A member is ranked once 10 disclosed trades of a side have six months of prices behind them: 57 qualify after purchases, 67 after sales.

A hit after a sale is the stock trailing the index. An option counts by the way it points and is measured on the stock: a bought call or a sold put as a purchase, a bought put or a sold call as a sale. Members who cleared the bar: 57 after purchases from 6,093 settled trades. Past outcomes are context, not a forecast.

The trades that aged best

Single disclosed trades whose stock moved furthest the way the trade pointed over the next six months, against the S&P 500. One row per member, stock and filing day; the amount is the range filed. Options are marked and measured on the stock by the way they point.

What members are trading

The stocks the most members traded in the last 90 days, how many bought and sold, and whether company insiders filed open-market buys on the same stock in that window.

Who reports late

The STOCK Act gives a member 45 days from a trade to report it. Of the 6,736 trades filed in the last year, 1,421 (21%) came in past that limit; the median trade took 27 days to reach a report.