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Trump's stake is now approximately $55B, on paper. Emphasis on "on paper".

Around 200 Pelosis of net worth: https://www.quiverquant.com/congress-live-net-worth/


Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions. This combines a few previous projects, where I collected data on corporate campaign contributions, with some new work tracking individual donations.


Note that you can click on a row to see information about corporate donors, congressional stock trades, and more.


Note that these are only rough estimates, based on politicians' disclosed holdings.

Estimates are updated on an hourly basis, using stock price data.


I combined a few different datasets to create this tool.

In the future, I'd like to add data showing which companies are lobbying on the different pieces of legislation proposed by a politician.


This is my tweet, thanks for sharing!

If anyone is interested, I built a dashboard that tracks the performance of individual congressional stock trades here:

https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/

It also allows you to search for trades by stock, instead of needing to parse through thousands of disclosure forms.

I do want to mention one weakness of my data, which is that I don't currently parse hand-filed disclosures. Most politicians do electronic filings, which are easy to scrape, but some still file by hand. Working on a solution for that, which should hopefully be live before too long.


What is the lag between the trade and the public disclosure ? My guess pretty long so probably fairly useless data. [edit] The tweet's one example shows a month for that particular example "This came after purchases of up to $115K of $LMT by Representative Scott Franklin on September 12th, which were disclosed on October 11th."

So can't see how building a trading bot that trades on information at least a month old even if info at the time was good would give any big advantage. This strategy is going to be fairly useless imo over the long term even if you assume the politicians trading was better than the overall market.


Pass it into chatgtp see what it comes up with.


Now that it’s multimodal you can pass it the photo and it will probably output whatever data you want.


Heh, yeah, whatever you want indeed. I wouldn't trust it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1QzVQn8hH8


I mean, never trust any OCR


You should track how their returns compare to indexes


Where do you get the data?



If you're interested in the ability to search by stocks and information on how individual trades are performing: https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/

If you're interested in the source data: https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/FinancialDisclosure https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/home/


The market was roughly flat between when the strategy went live (in may of 2022) and when the post was made.

The backtest goes back further though, which is what is shown in the graph. Could be improved by having a line on the graph showing when it went live.


Am I missing something? This threads post was made yesterday. Is there a different “end date” mentioned that I’m not seeing?


Here's a list of most of the dashboard's features:

- Track lobbying spending over time by publicly traded companies

- See what issues companies are lobbying on

- See the companies with the most lobbying spending over the past quarter

- Look up who's lobbying on a particular issue

- See the performance of a portfolio comprised of the top lobbying spenders.


The CEO of Coinbase has sold more stock in his own company than usual the last couple of months: https://www.quiverquant.com/insiders/COIN


That mortgage isn't going to pay itself...

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/crypto-ceo-brian-armstrong-...


Here's an excerpt from one of the latest reports from SEC [1] about CEO selling stock:

> The transactions reported on this Form 4 were effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the Reporting Person on August 26, 2022, during an open trading window.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000120919123...


Up until very recently, CEOs could always plan to sell then cancel or not based on insider information.


Did you also notice that the price is 300% higher over the last couple of months?


I was speaking of sales in terms of share count, not dollar value.


300% up seems like a good time to sell more than usual


Doesn't mean much. With as much SEC scrutiny as the company is currently undergoing, he'd be a fool to run afoul of insider trading laws, which strongly implies that he's not in possession of any material non-public information. Besides, there are lots of reasons to sell, but only one reason to buy. Based on that chart, I'm far more interested in what Fred Ehrsam is thinking…


You don't think the CEO of the company has material non-public information???


I think if the CEO of the company has material non-public information and is trading based on it, then there is a 100% chance the SEC, which is already looking closely at the company, will come down hard on him, including disgorgement and massive fines, and even potentially working with the DOJ to file criminal charges and put him in prison—all of which they're dying to do in their effort to assert their authority over cryptocurrency, as Brian Armstrong is acutely aware if he has any attorneys worth half a damn.

So I believe he very probably does not currently have any material non-public information, or at the very least is not trading on the basis of having it.


I think the usual strategy to not run afoul of insider trading laws is to schedule the sales several months in advance.


It is, under rule 10b5-1. But so what? The CEO goes through with a sale of stock that was planned and announced months ago, at a time when he definitively had no material non-public information, and everyone goes shocked Pikachu face? It makes no sense.


Having to plan it months in advance takes some of the short term trading aspect away. You can have no idea what markets will be doing months from now.

You obviously have material non public information as CEO, but you could just as easily lose by trying to trade that as win when there’s such a long delay involved. Everybody else gets to see what your trade is, with plenty of notice, and can front run you.


> You can have no idea what markets will be doing months from now.

Knowing the market conditions for your trade is normal and expected. Taking away that information is a bad thing, a necessary evil at best.


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