Members of Congress are required to disclose personal stock trades within 45 days under the STOCK Act. Argus Terminal monitors every disclosure in real time and correlates it against the legislative calendar — surfacing patterns that precede committee hearings, votes, and regulatory actions.
Get Early Access — $19/moThe STOCK Act made these disclosures public. The problem is they're buried in PDFs, filed at irregular intervals, and scattered across House and Senate databases. By the time a congressional trade makes the news, the move has already happened.
Since 2012, members of Congress and their spouses must report stock transactions worth more than $1,000 within 45 days of the trade. These filings are public record — but tracking 535 members across two different filing systems manually is practically impossible.
Academic research has consistently found that congressional stock portfolios outperform market benchmarks. The pattern is clearest when multiple members trade the same ticker within a short window — especially near committee hearings, regulatory announcements, or floor votes on relevant legislation.
Three layers of analysis, automated.
The CONGRESS-TRADES agent monitors House and Senate financial disclosure databases continuously, parsing new filings as they are submitted — not on a daily batch schedule.
Every trade is cross-referenced against the legislative calendar — upcoming committee hearings, scheduled floor votes, and pending regulatory actions affecting the relevant sector or company.
When multiple members trade the same ticker within a defined window — or when a single member's trade aligns with a near-term legislative event — the agent surfaces a structured alert with context and confidence score.
Structured output — not a news headline.
// Sample output for illustration. Not financial advice.
House and Senate disclosures monitored across all 535 members. Includes spouse disclosures where filed. No manual checking across two separate databases.
Trades by members who sit on committees relevant to the traded sector carry additional weight in the confidence scoring — a Finance Committee member trading a bank stock reads differently than a general member.
Disclosures include transaction type (buy/sell/exchange) and a value range. Argus surfaces both — so you know whether the signal is a small hedge or a significant directional move.
Congressional trade signals don't surface in isolation. They're weighted alongside SEC insider filings, short interest data, and earnings momentum — so you see the full picture, not just the political angle.
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