Coldpine Research
Reading the tape on Congress.
Data and analysis on Congressional stock trading, from the team that parses every House and Senate disclosure. Sourced from public STOCK Act filings. Informational, not financial advice.
The Biggest Cluster Buys in Congress Right Now
When three or more members of Congress buy the same stock inside a 90-day window, we call it a cluster. Every active buy cluster, the members in each, how many still stand without the most active filer, and the sell clusters alongside, computed live from STOCK Act filings.
What Stocks Is Congress Buying Right Now?
The stocks members of Congress reported buying over the latest 90 days of reports, ranked by how many different members bought each one, so one busy filer cannot top the list. With what they reported selling, the sectors, the members with the most purchases, and how old the trades are by the time they are reported. Computed live.
Do Members of Congress Trade Options?
A few do, and one household accounts for most of it. Every options trade members of Congress have disclosed since 2023, member by member: calls and puts, index and single-stock contracts, whose account they sit in, and how the count changes with the largest filer set aside. Computed live.
Can Members of Congress Trade Stocks? The Rules
Yes. Members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children can buy and sell individual stocks if they report each trade within 45 days. What the rules require, how the reports work, where the 2026 proposal to stop members buying stocks stands after the House and Senate votes, and how promptly trades are reported. Reporting figures computed live.
Do Members of Congress Trade Crypto?
A few do, and it is a small share of what they report. Every crypto-linked transaction members of Congress have disclosed since 2023, in three groups: coins held directly, spot bitcoin and ether funds, and crypto-company stocks. Member by member, with who reported the most, the largest reported amounts, bitcoin and ether counted separately, and the split by party. Computed live.
Which States' Members of Congress Trade the Most Stocks?
California, by transaction count, and most of that is one member. Every securities transaction on the reports filed this year, grouped by the state the member represents, with the members behind each state's count, the largest filer's share, the ranking with each state's largest filer set aside, and the states with no reported trade. Computed live.
How Many Members of Congress Trade Stocks?
About one in four, going by the reports they file. Every member of the House and Senate with a securities transaction on a periodic transaction report this year, counted per person and set against the 535 voting seats, with how many reported a ticker-listed stock or fund, how many reported only family-account trades, and the House count for each year since 2023. Computed live.
Is Congress Buying or Selling Stocks?
Members of Congress disclose more purchases than sales, about three for every two. Most of that gap is one filer: without the largest, the split is close to even, and member by member about as many sell more than they buy as the other way round. Every disclosed purchase and sale counted in total, by year, by party, by the dollar ranges on the filings, and over the latest 90 days of reports. Computed live.
Does the House or the Senate Trade More Stocks?
The House discloses more transactions in total and the Senate more per member. Both chambers over the same months of 2026 reports, counted in total, per trading member and per seat, with how long each takes to report and what the purchases did over the next 90 days against the S&P 500. Shown with and without each chamber's largest filer. Computed live.
How Big Are Congress's Stock Trades?
Filings report every trade in a dollar range, so each one can be counted by size. About seven in ten transactions members of Congress disclose sit in the smallest range, $1,001 to $15,000, and fewer than one in a hundred is above $1 million. Every range counted four ways: all transactions, those with a ticker, without the largest filer, and member by member. Computed live.
Do Democrats or Republicans Trade Stocks Better?
Every disclosed stock purchase in Congress measured over the next 90 days against the S&P 500, split by party three ways: trade by trade, without each party's largest filer, and member by member. Neither party's purchases beat the index trade for trade, about half the members in each party do, and which party looks better depends on the count. Computed live.
What Sectors Do Members of Congress Trade the Most?
Every disclosed stock trade in a sector-classified company, ranked three ways: member by member, by raw trade count, and without the one household that makes up half the count. Technology leads on every measure, energy and defense are a small slice, and Republicans lean further into financials and energy than Democrats do. Computed live.
Whose Trades Are They? Spouses, Children and Congress's Stock Disclosures
Most stock trades Congress discloses are not made in the member's own account. Every disclosed trade counted by the owner named on the filing: spouse, dependent child, joint, or the member. About four in five sit in a family account, a single household accounts for more than two in five of all trades, and the typical member is closer to three in five. Computed live.
How to Track Congress Stock Trades
Every stock trade a member of Congress makes over $1,000 becomes a public record within 45 days. Where the House and Senate publish those reports, how to read one line by line, which dates matter, and how to follow a member, a stock, or a single filing day, with the record's shape computed live.
Does Congress Sell Before the Drop?
Is a congressional sale a warning? We measured every disclosed sale since 2023 against the next 30 and 90 days, side by side with the purchases and the S&P 500 over the same windows. What members sold went on to do about the same as what they bought, and the biggest drops on the list came after sales made in the middle of a collapse.
Which Party Files Late? STOCK Act Compliance by Party
Republicans miss the STOCK Act's 45-day disclosure deadline more often than Democrats in every way we count it, but the size of the gap depends entirely on the frame. Two Republican senators account for half of their party's late filings, and one Democrat's on-time volume dominates his party's total. Both frames, computed live.
Who Files Late? STOCK Act Deadline Compliance, Ranked
The STOCK Act gives members of Congress 45 days to disclose a trade. Most beat the deadline comfortably; a meaningful slice do not, and a small group of members misses it almost every time, sometimes by years. Here is the compliance record, member by member, from the filing dates themselves.
What Stocks Do Before Congress Discloses
Members of Congress can wait up to 45 days to tell the public about a trade. We measured what more than ten thousand disclosed purchases did between the trade date and the disclosure date, against the S&P 500 over the same window. The average is smaller than you'd guess, and the late filers are not.
Every Stock Nancy Pelosi's Household Has Traded
Every stock on Nancy Pelosi's financial disclosures, all of them listed under her spouse: the names traded most, how many purchases are call options, how fast she files, and how the purchases did against the S&P 500, computed live from STOCK Act filings.
Which AI Stocks Is Congress Buying?
The AI-linked stocks members of Congress disclose buying most, from a basket of 26 chipmakers, cloud platforms and AI software names: purchases, sales and buyers per stock, the share of all their purchases, how much rests on the largest filer, and the latest 90 days of reports. Computed live from STOCK Act filings.
Which Members of Congress Own SpaceX?
SpaceX went public on June 12, 2026 as SPCX. Every member of Congress who has disclosed a SpaceX trade, who held it before the IPO and who bought after, whose accounts the trades sit in, and how the post-IPO purchases moved against the S&P 500 over 90 days. Computed live from STOCK Act filings.
Which Members of Congress Own xAI?
Who in Congress has disclosed a stake in xAI, Elon Musk's AI company behind Grok, bought while it was private: the member, the amount, whose account, and what became of xAI after SpaceX acquired it in February 2026, from STOCK Act filings.
Which Members of Congress Actually Beat the Market
Trading often is not the same as trading well. Most members of Congress do not beat the S&P 500 on their disclosed purchases. Here are the few who do, measured by 90-day alpha vs SPY.
The Most Active Stock Traders in Congress
A small group of members accounts for an outsized share of all disclosed trading. Here are the ten most active, ranked by disclosed trades, straight from STOCK Act filings.
What Is the STOCK Act? Congressional Stock Trading, Explained
The STOCK Act is the 2012 law that requires members of Congress to disclose their stock trades. What it covers, what it requires, how disclosure actually works, and why enforcement is so weak.
Does Congress Actually Beat the Stock Market?
Members of Congress are often assumed to be savvy traders. Measured against the S&P 500 over the 90 days after each disclosed purchase, most are not. Here is the data, and the few exceptions.
The Most-Traded Stocks in Congress
Which stocks show up most across Congressional disclosures: the names members buy and sell the most, straight from STOCK Act filings and ranked by Coldpine.
New rankings, roundups, and explainers, published regularly.