# Congress stock trades are now graded voices in Quantral > Every member of the House and Senate who files a STOCK Act disclosure is now a voice in Quantral with a graded track record, next to the X, Reddit and Substack accounts we already grade. A purchase is a bullish call, a sale a bearish one, and the grade says what happened next. By Maya Koeva · 2026-09-21  Congress stock trades are in Quantral. Every member of the House and the Senate who files a disclosure under the STOCK Act is now a voice in the app, with a call history and a graded track record, on the same leaderboard as the X, Reddit and Substack accounts we already grade. A purchase reads as a bullish call, a sale as a bearish one, and each one is graded like every other call in the app. Graded that way, fewer than half of member trades as a group work out, and a handful of members do better than that. A filing tells you a representative bought Netflix. The grade tells you whether following that trade would have worked. ## What a STOCK Act disclosure is The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, passed in 2012, does not stop members of congress from owning or trading stock. It requires them to say so in public. Any transaction above $1,000 in a member's own account, a spouse's, or a dependent child's has to be reported within 45 days in a periodic transaction report. House filings go to the Clerk of the House, Senate filings to the Senate's electronic financial disclosure system, and both are public the day they appear. One report can cover several trades. Each line names the member, the asset and its ticker, the owner, whether it was a purchase or a sale, the date of the trade, the date of the filing, and the size as a band rather than a figure: $1,001 to $15,000, $15,001 to $50,000, and up from there. STOCK Act disclosures are a public record of what members of congress did with their own money, published on a delay, in ranges. It is a textbook piece of [alternative data](/learn/alternative-data-sources), and much less useful raw than it looks. ## What you see when a member files Open a member's profile and each filing is a call on a stock: a buy shows as bullish, a sale as bearish, dated to the day the filing became public, with the disclosure document one tap away. Open the stock instead and the same call sits in that company's signal list next to everything else said about it. Over time the calls add up to a record you can read the way you read any other voice's: how many, how many were right, and what the recent form looks like. ## The first scoreboard Members rank once they have enough graded calls to mean something, the same floor every other voice clears. Eight have cleared it, all of them filed from the House. Sorted by how much record there is to read: | Member | Chamber, party, state | Graded calls | Correct | |---|---|---:|---:| | Marjorie Taylor Greene | House, R, GA | 170 | 97 | | Bruce Westerman | House, R, AR | 154 | 79 | | Jared Moskowitz | House, D, FL | 108 | 55 | | Michael T. McCaul | House, R, TX | 75 | 40 | | Byron Donalds | House, R, FL | 74 | 39 | | Thomas H. Kean Jr | House, R, NJ | 69 | 37 | | Tim Moore | House, R, NC | 63 | 32 | | Cleo Fields | House, D, LA | 59 | 35 | Eight members, eight hit rates between 51% and 59%. Cleo Fields tops that range with 35 of 59, Marjorie Taylor Greene comes next at 97 of 170 (a closed record: Greene resigned from the House in January 2026, and Fields has announced a run for a Louisiana state Senate seat instead of re-election), and the other six sit within a few points of even. Widen it to every member filing, including the records too thin to rank, and the picture tilts the other way: 9,502 graded calls, 4,215 of them correct, a touch under 44%. The most-followed trades in American politics work out less than half the time, with a couple of members in front. That is not a verdict on anyone: it is what a slow, partial, month-late record of someone's own money looks like once you grade it against the stock. A list of trades cannot tell you that. A grade can. Three recent filings, as they reached the app: - **[Byron Donalds](https://app.quantral.com/authors/223958)** filed on September 15 for trades from mid-August: a purchase of $1,001 to $15,000 of NFLX (Netflix), and partial sales in the same band of HWM (Howmet Aerospace) and PH (Parker-Hannifin). One report, one bullish call and two bearish ones, all dated September 15. - **[Thomas H. Kean Jr](https://app.quantral.com/authors/223939)** filed on September 12: purchases of MTZ (MasTec) and LIN (Linde), and partial sales of MSFT (Microsoft), GOOGL (Alphabet), JNJ (Johnson & Johnson) and AMCR (Amcor), each $1,001 to $15,000 apart from the Microsoft trim at $15,001 to $50,000. - **[Cleo Fields](https://app.quantral.com/authors/223997)** files buys and little else. AAPL (Apple) on September 2, TSM (Taiwan Semiconductor) on July 30, NVDA (NVIDIA) on July 16, each $1,001 to $15,000, part of a run of megacap and chip purchases going back through the spring. ## Where it shows up in the app Members are voices, so they show up where voices show up. - **Search a member by name** the way you would a handle, and the profile opens with the calls and the record. - **A Congress label sits on the profile**, next to the member's photo, so you can see the calls came from filings rather than posts. - **On a company page**, a member's trades sit in the same signal list as everything else said about that stock. Open Microsoft and the Kean trim is in the run, with a link through to the filing document. - **On the leaderboard**, members rank from their first graded call, same as anyone else. No separate board, no head start. - **Through the [Quantral MCP server](/mcp)**, so you can follow politician stock trades from inside Claude or ChatGPT and get the same calls and records back in the chat. ## Common questions ### Is it legal for members of congress to trade stocks? Yes. Members may own and trade stock, and the STOCK Act asks for disclosure: report the transaction within 45 days, in public, with the size in a band. Bills to ban the practice outright have been introduced over the years and none has passed. Quantral grades the resulting filings the way it grades any other public call. ### How fast do congress stock trades show up? They show up once they are public, which the law decides rather than we do. The 45-day window is the outer limit, and in this data the typical gap between trade and filing runs about a month. ### Do you cover the Senate as well as the House? Both chambers, House Clerk filings and Senate eFD filings alike. The eight members with enough graded calls to rank today all filed from the House, which follows from where the filing volume is. Senators build records the same way, one filing at a time. ### Is Nancy Pelosi included? She is, with 18 graded calls and 9 of them correct, most recently purchases of Bloom Energy and Intel filed on August 21. She is not standing for re-election in 2026, so that record is more likely to settle than to grow. ## Try it Search any member by name in the app, on the web at [app.quantral.com](https://app.quantral.com), on iOS, or on Android, and read the calls next to the record. Start with a 7-day free trial. To check the workings rather than take them on trust, **[how to verify a track record](/learn/how-to-verify-a-track-record)** is the method, and it works on anyone, us included. Counts above are a snapshot from the morning of September 21, 2026. For the current records, open the [Quantral app](https://app.quantral.com). --- *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.*