Methodology

All trades come from the US House Clerk's Periodic Transaction Reports — the official disclosures members of Congress are required to file under the STOCK Act of 2012. Member details (party, state, photo) come from the public-domain congress-legislators dataset, and stock prices come from public market data. We currently cover the US House; the Senate uses a separate disclosure system we may add later. Every trade row links to its original government filing.

The STOCK Act gives members up to 45 days to disclose a trade. So "recent" here means recently disclosed, not recently traded — and no tracker, including this one, can show you a trade before it's legally filed. We always show both the transaction date and the disclosure date so you can see the gap.

For each disclosed purchase, we measure the stock's return from the month the trade became public (not the trade date — you couldn't have acted on it before it was disclosed) to the latest monthly close, using dividend-adjusted prices. A politician's track record is the equal-weighted average of those returns across the buys we can price, limited to the last three years so it reflects current activity rather than a decade of market drift. "vs S&P 500" compares each buy to the index over the same window.

Limits, stated plainly: amounts are disclosed as wide ranges (e.g. "$1,001–$15,000"), so dollar figures use range midpoints. We score buys only, equal-weighted, in stocks we have price data for — this is an honest approximation of "what if you'd copied their disclosed buys," not a reconstruction of anyone's actual portfolio return. Sales, options, and untracked tickers are excluded.

HillStreetBets is information, not investment advice. Multiple members buying the same stock is a data signal, not a recommendation or evidence of coordination. Disclosures can contain filer errors. Do your own research, and treat past performance as history, not a forecast.