# The best Congress stock trackers in 2026: politician stock tracker apps compared
> Seven Congress stock trackers compared: Capitol Trades, Quiver Quantitative, Unusual Whales, InsiderFinance, Autopilot, Quantral and the official House and Senate disclosure sites. Which politician stock tracker is free, which shows how trades did, which copies them, and what each costs.
By Maya Koeva ยท 2026-10-13
A Congress stock tracker reads the same public paperwork as every other: the trade reports
members of the House and Senate file under the STOCK Act. The trackers differ in what they do
with a filing once it lands. Some list it, some put a return next to it, one places the same
trade in your brokerage account, and one grades the member who filed it.
This page compares seven politician stock trackers on the questions that decide which one you
open: does it cover both chambers, does it show how late each trade was filed, does it show
how the trade did, what does it cost, and does it run on a phone. We make Quantral, one of the
seven. We checked every competitor fact below on the vendor's own site on October 13, 2026, and
where a site did not state something, the table says so.
One name clash before the list. Capitol Trades is a free tracker run by the data company 2iQ.
Capitol is also the name of a Quantral strategy. The two are unrelated.
## Congress stock trackers at a glance
| Tracker | Best for | How trades did | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| | Checking a trade at the source | No | Free |
| | A free table of every trade | Trade price only | Free |
| | Member returns and backtests | Return per trade | Free tier, paid plans |
| | Finding the members with a winning record | Every trade graded and measured against the S&P 500, per member | From $9.99/mo (yearly) |
| | Options traders | Yearly report | Free (2-day delay), $50/mo |
| | A second free table | Pelosi portfolio vs S&P 500 | Free, paid from $55/mo |
| | Copying Pelosi's trades | Portfolio returns | Not stated |
All of them cover both chambers except Autopilot, which follows Pelosi and a few other named
portfolios. Capitol Trades and the official sites are web only; the others have mobile apps.
The delay is the same everywhere. Members have up to 45 days to report a trade, and every tool on
this list, ours included, reads the filing, not the trade. No tracker gets a trade sooner than the
disclosure goes public, so the choice comes down to what each one does with it.
## The primary source: House Clerk and Senate eFD
Every politician stock tracker starts from two government sites. The
[House Clerk's financial disclosure page](https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/FinancialDisclosure)
lets you search reports and download them by year, from 2008 to 2026, under Section 8 of the
STOCK Act. The [Senate's eFD site](https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/home/) holds reports for
senators, former senators and candidates from 2012 on. Before you can search it, you have to tick
a box agreeing that you will not use the reports for a commercial purpose, among other uses the
law prohibits.
Both are free, and a filing appears there before any tracker picks it up. They are also hard
to read: a House trade report is a
PDF per filing, amounts come as bands such as $1,001 to $15,000, and nothing tells you what the
stock did afterwards. Use them to check a trade a tracker shows you, and for details the trackers
drop, such as an option's strike and expiry.
**Best for:** checking any trade at the source, free, before you trust a tracker's version of it.
## Free trade tables
### Capitol Trades: the free table with every trade
Capitol Trades states on its own site that it is free for the public. The data comes from 2iQ,
an insider-transaction data company, and the about page describes a mix of automated collection and analysts checking the records. The trades table
covers both chambers and lists, for each trade, the member, the stock, the publish date, the
trade date, a "filed after" count in days, the owner (self, spouse or child), the side, the size
band and the price at the trade. Member pages add committee memberships and preferred sectors,
and stock pages show which members traded the name. A weekly newsletter and an X account cover
new trades.
It does not tell you how a trade turned out. You get the price on the trade date and work out
the rest yourself. We found no app on its site.
**Best for:** a free, searchable record of every House and Senate trade, with the filing delay
on each row.
### InsiderFinance: a free Congress table inside a paid options platform
InsiderFinance's main product is an options flow dashboard. Its Congress trades page is open
without an account and filters by chamber, party, size and side. Each row shows the reported
date, the traded date and a delay in days, and a chart ranks the stocks with the largest net
buying and selling by Congress over 60 days. A separate Pelosi page shows her estimated portfolio
value and its return against the S&P 500. The paid dashboard, $75 a month or $55 a month billed
yearly, is built around options flow rather than Congress data. It has iOS and Android apps.
**Best for:** a second free Congress table, if you trade options and want politician trades in the
same place as the flow.
## Trades with returns attached
### Quiver Quantitative: returns, a leaderboard and a backtester
Quiver puts a number on each trade. Its Congress trading page shows an estimated excess return
of the underlying stock since the transaction, and it rolls those up into per-member figures:
30-day and one-year returns, win rate and drawdown. The site labels these results hypothetical
and based on backtesting. The recent trades feed and the most active traders table are open to
everyone. The Politician Stock Portfolio Leaderboard, the current holdings of its Congress strategies and
the Congress Backtester, which lets you build and test your own rules on the data, sit behind Quiver Premium.
The Premium price appears only after you create an account. Quiver also sells an API and has iOS
and Android apps.
**Best for:** checking how a member's trades did, and building your own rule on Congress data.
### Unusual Whales: Congress trades for options traders
Unusual Whales is an options flow platform with a politics section. Its politics pages show
recent trades with the trade date and the filing date side by side, top traders by party, the
stocks members hold most, and a yearly Congress trading report; the 2025 edition leads with the
share of members who beat the S&P 500. A free account sees the whole platform two trading days
late. Paid plans start at $50 a month, or $42 a month billed yearly, and every listed tier
includes politician trade information. There is a mobile app and an API.
**Best for:** options traders who already pay for flow data and want Congress trades on the same
screen.
## Copy trading
### Autopilot: the Pelosi Tracker, placed in your brokerage
Autopilot is the copy-trading answer. You pick a portfolio, connect a brokerage such as
Robinhood or Schwab, and Autopilot places the trades in your account. Its largest portfolio by money
invested, Pelosi Tracker+, follows the trades Nancy Pelosi's household files, and the site lists other
politician and investor portfolios, some built by Quiver and Unusual Whales. Its FAQ says
positions update as soon as a report is filed, and that it does not copy options, short
positions or crypto. Ongoing copying needs a paid subscription; the site does not state a
price. The FAQ describes an iOS app.
Copying a filing still means buying weeks after the member did. In her August 2026 report, Pelosi
disclosed Bloom Energy purchases made on July 24 near $185 and July 28 near $167; by the day the
filing went public the stock was $201.45. Our
[Nancy Pelosi stock tracker](/blog/nancy-pelosi-stock-tracker) lists every trade she filed and
how each one has done since.
**Best for:** hands-off copying of one politician's disclosed trades, if you accept the delay.
## Graded by who is trading
### Quantral: every member graded, Congress inside the score
Quantral treats every House and Senate member who files as a voice with a track record. Each
disclosed purchase or sale is dated to the day the filing went public and graded on what the
stock did next. Each member's profile shows how many trades were right, how often they beat the S&P 500
and by how much on average, on the same leaderboard as the X, Reddit, Substack and YouTube voices
we grade, and the filing document sits one tap away.
Graded that way, Congress as a group got a touch under 44% of its trades right as of September
21, 2026, and the members with enough graded trades to rank sat between 51% and 59%. A list of
trades cannot show you which members those are.
**[Congress stock trades are now graded voices](/blog/congress-stock-trades)** explains the
grading and the first scoreboard.
Congress trades also feed the 0 to 100 score Quantral gives each stock, next to insider buys and
the graded voices. Open a company and a member's buy sits in the same signal list as what the
graded accounts on X and Reddit are saying, with the reason behind the score. For a ready-made
list, the [Capitol strategy](/strategies/capitol) takes the companies members disclosed buying
most in recent weeks and rebuilds a 10-stock, equal-weight model portfolio every Monday before
the US open. Its page shows the record against the S&P 500, with the backtest kept apart from
the weeks since launch.
The limits. Quantral costs money after the trial. It does not place trades for you, it has no
bulk data API (the [MCP server](/mcp) lets Claude or ChatGPT pull the same trades and records
into a chat), and if you want a raw table of every filing to sort, Capitol Trades does that job
for free. The [Congress stock tracker](/congress-stock-tracker) page shows how the app lays it
out.
**Best for:** knowing whether a member of Congress has been right before you act on their next
filing, with Congress trades scored next to insider buys and graded investors in one place.
## Which politician stock tracker should you use?
- **Free, every trade, both chambers:** Capitol Trades. InsiderFinance as a second table.
- **Checking a trade at the source:** the House Clerk and Senate eFD sites.
- **How a member's trades did, in returns:** Quiver Quantitative.
- **Whether a member has been right, graded trade by trade:** Quantral, which also puts those
trades into a stock score and the Capitol strategy.
- **Copying trades into your brokerage:** Autopilot.
- **Congress trades next to options flow:** Unusual Whales or InsiderFinance.
- **One ticker instead of a tracker:** Subversive's two ETFs, NANC for stocks Democratic members
and their spouses trade and GOP (KRUZ until March 2025) for Republican members.
Two tools cover most needs: a free table to see the filing, and a graded read to decide whether
this member's filings deserve your attention.
## What no Congress tracker can tell you
A filing tells you a member, a spouse or a child bought or sold, inside a size band, up to 45
days ago. It does not tell you why. A sale can be a tax move, a gift or a switch from shares to
options. Our Pelosi page shows December 2025 sales of Apple, Nvidia and Amazon shares followed
days later by call options on all three, which a plain trade list reads as bearish.
The same holds for company insiders, who file faster and with exact amounts. If that is the
paperwork you want, the [insider trading tracker](/insider-trading-tracker) covers it, and
**[Quantral vs OpenInsider](/learn/quantral-vs-openinsider)** compares the free insider table with
the graded view.
## Common questions
### What is the best free Congress stock tracker?
Capitol Trades. It is free, covers the House and the Senate, and shows how many days after the
trade each filing arrived. InsiderFinance's Congress page is also free, and Barchart keeps a
free list of politician trades from the last 60 days. The House Clerk and Senate eFD sites are
the free originals.
### Is there a politician stock tracker app?
Yes. Quiver Quantitative, InsiderFinance and Quantral have iOS and Android apps, Autopilot runs on
iOS, and Unusual Whales has a mobile app. Capitol Trades is a website, and it works in a phone
browser.
### What happened to House Stock Watcher and Senate Stock Watcher?
When we checked on October 13, 2026, neither housestockwatcher.com nor senatestockwatcher.com
resolved. Both were free sites built on the House and Senate disclosures. For the same raw data,
use Capitol Trades or the official House Clerk and Senate eFD sites.
### Is Capitol Trades the same as Quantral's Capitol strategy?
No. Capitol Trades is a free tracker run by 2iQ. Capitol is a Quantral model portfolio: the 10
companies members of Congress disclosed buying most, rebuilt every Monday and tracked against the
S&P 500. The two are unrelated.
### How late do Congress stock trades show up?
The STOCK Act gives members up to 45 days to report a trade over $1,000. On the trackers that
show the gap, recent filings arrived anywhere from about one to five weeks after the trade. No
tracker can show a trade before the member files it.
### Can you copy Congress stock trades?
Autopilot places politician trades in your brokerage account for you, and Quiver and
Unusual Whales both build portfolios on Autopilot. Quantral's [Capitol strategy](/strategies/capitol)
publishes a 10-stock list each Monday with its record, and leaves the decision to you. Any copy
starts from the filing, weeks after the member traded.
### Do Congress stock trades beat the market?
Some members do, many do not. Unusual Whales' 2025 report found that 32.2% of members beat the
S&P 500. In Quantral's grading, Congress as a group got a little under 44% of its trades right as
of September 21, 2026, while the members with enough graded trades to rank landed between 51% and
59%. Each member's profile in Quantral also shows how often their trades beat the S&P 500. The filing
tells you what a member did; the grade tells you whether that member's filings
have been worth following.
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*Competitor details and prices were read on each vendor's own site on October 13, 2026 and will
drift; check the provider before you pay. Quantral figures for Congress describe the members who
file and are a dated snapshot from September 21, 2026. Quantral surfaces signals and context from
public sources to support your own research. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation
to buy or sell.*