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Life & fun · May 10, 2020

Tracking stock trading by US Senators

Track stock trading activity by members of U.S. Congress. View recent trades, search by politician or stock, and see the most active traders in the Senate and House of Representatives.

Tracking stock trading by US Senators launched on May 10, 2020 with 119 votes, #297 of 4,813 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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In plain words

This tool tracks stock trading activity by United States Senators. It allows users to monitor what stocks members of Congress are buying and selling, providing transparency into their financial transactions. The service is designed for investors and citizens interested in following congressional trading patterns and potential conflicts of interest. It compiles publicly available Senate financial disclosure data into an accessible format for research and observation purposes.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

The Stock Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act requires U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives to publicly file and disclose any financial transaction within 45 days of its occurrence. We download those disclosures, parse them for stock trades, fetch the stock's performance in the time following the transaction, and calculate each politician's cumulative return from their trades. Track the returns and profits of stock portfolios held by U.S. politicians in Congress on our Politician Stock Portfolio Leaderboard. Available to Quiver Premium subscribers. Disclaimer: The performance results shown are based on historical backtesting and are hypothetical in nature. Backtested performance does…from quiverquant.com

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