Who's trading
what.
Every disclosed Congressional stock trade — filer, ticker, bracketed amount, trade date, filed date, days late. STOCK Act receipts. No speculation.
Disclosure on paper. Enforcement on vibes.
The STOCK Act requires every sitting member of Congress — and their spouses and dependents — to publicly file a Periodic Transaction Report within 45 days of any stock trade above $1,000. It has been the law since 2012. It is the only mechanism the public has to see what the people writing the rules are doing with the markets those rules govern.
Enforcement is a $200 administrative fine. Reporting by Insider, Business Insider, and the Campaign Legal Center has documented dozens of members filing months or years past the 45-day window with only the standard slap. No criminal STOCK Act case has ever been brought. The members who consistently outperform the S&P are not anomalies — they are a structural feature of the post-2012 system.
The roll.
Most active in the seed.
Ranked by trade count, then by lower-bound dollar volume. As we backfill, this ranking shifts to a 12-month rolling window.
Where the raw filings live.
House Clerk Disclosures
Periodic Transaction Reports for every sitting House member, spouse, and dependent. Filterable by member.
Senate eFD
Electronic Financial Disclosures for every sitting senator. Free account required to search.
Capitol Trades
Continuously updated mirror of every PTR with charts, returns vs. S&P, and per-member portfolios.
Quiver Quantitative
Alt-data feed of Congressional trades with strategy backtests. Where the Pelosi-ETF idea came from.
ProPublica — Congress Trades
Investigative reporting on STOCK Act violations and the late-filing pattern.
OpenSecrets — Personal Finances
Member-by-member net worth, asset allocations, and historical disclosures.
What this is. What it isn't.
What is the STOCK Act?
The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 requires sitting members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children to publicly disclose any stock trade above $1,000 within 45 days of the transaction. It also bars members from using non-public information obtained through their official duties for personal trades.
Why are the dollar amounts shown as ranges?
STOCK Act disclosures are filed in bracketed ranges, not exact dollars. Common brackets include '$1,001 - $15,000', '$15,001 - $50,000', '$50,001 - $100,000', and so on up to '$50,000,001+'. Gen Us shows the bracket exactly as filed.
What happens if a member files late?
Late filings carry a $200 administrative fine. Enforcement is weak and inconsistent. Reporting by Insider and Business Insider has documented dozens of members filing months or years late with only the standard fine applied. There has been no criminal STOCK Act enforcement to date.
Does this prove insider trading?
No. Gen Us reports only filed facts: what was traded, the bracketed amount, the trade date, the filing date, and any delay past the 45-day window. We link to the raw filing or to authoritative reporting. We do not allege illegal activity; that's a question for the SEC and DOJ. The pattern across members is the editorial story.
Where does Gen Us get this data?
House trades come from the Clerk of the House Financial Disclosures portal. Senate trades come from the Senate eFD (Electronic Financial Disclosures) system. We cross-reference with Capitol Trades, Quiver Quantitative, and ProPublica's STOCK Act reporting for completeness.
Why isn't every trade here yet?
We're shipping the surface with a hand-curated seed of recent high-signal trades. A full PTR ingest pipeline (House + Senate portals, daily refresh, JSON normalization) is the next build. Until then, treat this page as a curated index, not a complete ledger.
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