Politicians Trading Stocks

You can track Congress stock trades on this page, which compiles every U.S. Senator's and Representative's disclosed stock transactions from their STOCK Act periodic transaction reports. Each member is ranked by the Q Score and links to a full trade history with prices, dates, and estimated returns.

Yes. Members of Congress are allowed to buy and sell individual stocks, but the 2012 STOCK Act requires them to publicly disclose each transaction within 45 days. Quantellect aggregates those disclosures so the trades are searchable in one place.

Yes. Under the STOCK Act, every covered transaction by a member of Congress (or their spouse and dependent children) must be filed in a public periodic transaction report. This page surfaces those filings as a ranked, searchable list.

Congressional stock trading refers to members of the U.S. Congress buying and selling stocks and other securities while in office. Because lawmakers can access non-public briefings, their trades are disclosed under the STOCK Act and tracked here for transparency.

No, congressional stock trading is not currently banned. Several bills to prohibit or restrict it have been introduced in Congress, but none has become law, so members may still trade individual stocks subject to STOCK Act disclosure.