# Quantral Strategies: four model portfolios, rebuilt every Monday > Strategies is a new tab in Quantral: four 10-stock model portfolios built from insider buys, Congress trades and the voices we track on X and Substack, rebuilt every Monday and measured against the S&P 500. By Maya Koeva · 2026-09-28  Quantral now has a Strategies tab with four model portfolios, each a list of 10 stocks held in equal weight and rebuilt every Monday before the US open. One follows insider buys, one follows members of Congress, and two follow the voices we track on X and Substack. You see each list next to the S&P 500, with its chart, its stats, this week's changes and a week-by-week record. We ran each rule back over the data we already had before we launched it. In those hypothetical backtests, all four lists finished ahead of the S&P 500 over their periods, and all four also fell hard along the way: the worst peak-to-trough drops ran from 20.9% to 37.8%. The live record started with the list published on September 21, 2026, and the app keeps it apart from the backtest. ## The four strategies Hypothetical backtests, Monday open to Monday open, before trading costs, through the September 21, 2026 list. The S&P 500 column is SPY with dividends included, over the same weeks. | Strategy | What it follows | Weeks | Strategy (hypothetical) | S&P 500 | Max drawdown | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:| | Insiders | Insiders buying their own company's stock | 108 | +89.0% | +39.6% | -31.8% | | FinX stars | The most accurate voices on X | 24 | +23.7% | +17.4% | -37.8% | | Capitol | Stocks members of Congress reported buying | 111 | +96.9% | +53.7% | -20.9% | | Deep dives | Detailed bullish cases on X and Substack | 63 | +134.1% | +24.6% | -29.6% | The periods differ because each strategy needs its own history to run on. ### Insiders The 10 companies where insiders spent the most of their own money. The list comes from open-market purchases that officers, directors and large owners report to the SEC, picked mainly on the value of recent buys and combined with other signals we track. The list often holds small, volatile companies. Backtest from August 26, 2024 to September 21, 2026: +89.0% against +39.6% for the S&P 500, ahead of the index in 50.9% of weeks, with a worst drop of 31.8%. ### FinX stars What the most accurate voices on X are bullish on. Quantral grades every call from the X accounts it follows against what the stock did next, and each Monday the list takes the companies backed by the accounts with the best records, after size and liquidity filters. The group of accounts is small, so the list can bunch into a few themes. A bullish post is also an opinion, not a record of what its author bought. Backtest from April 6 to September 21, 2026: +23.7% against +17.4%, ahead in 54.2% of weeks, with a worst drop of 37.8%. That is the shortest record of the four and the deepest drawdown. ### Capitol The 10 companies members of Congress reported buying the most, from STOCK Act disclosures. Members can disclose a trade up to 45 days after they make it, so the list follows the filings, not the trades. Amounts come as ranges rather than exact figures, and the picks lean toward large tech. Backtest from August 5, 2024 to September 21, 2026: +96.9% against +53.7%, ahead in 58.6% of weeks, with a worst drop of 20.9%, the smallest of the four. ### Deep dives Companies with the most detailed bullish cases from the voices we follow. We read posts on X and Substack and separate a worked, evidence-backed case from a passing mention, across independent authors. The list gathers in the themes people write about most. The cases are opinions, and our reading of a post is automated, so it is sometimes wrong. Backtest from July 7, 2025 to September 21, 2026: +134.1% against +24.6%, ahead in 57.1% of weeks, with a worst drop of 29.6%. ## What you see for each strategy in the app Open the Strategies tab and pick one of the four. Each has the same five parts: - **A performance chart** against the S&P 500, dividends included. - **Key stats**, starting with the return against the S&P 500 over the same weeks and the worst drawdown. - **The current list**: the 10 stocks held this week, each at a tenth of the portfolio. - **What changed this week**: the stocks that came in on Monday and the ones that dropped out. - **The weekly record**, one row per week, so you can see the bad weeks as clearly as the good ones. The backtest and the live record have separate places in the app, and the backtest carries its label everywhere it appears. The current lists and the live record only exist in the app; this page is a snapshot. ## How to read the backtest numbers A backtest tells you how a rule would have done if someone had run it in the past. Nobody held these portfolios during those weeks, and we wrote the rules knowing how those years went. Treat the backtest as a description of the rule, and weigh the live record, which started on September 21, 2026, as it grows. **[How to verify a track record](/learn/how-to-verify-a-track-record)** explains why the live part is the one that counts. Two more checks: - **Costs are not in the figures.** A list that changes every week means trades every week, and spreads, commissions and taxes would take a share of the return. Small, volatile stocks, the kind the Insiders list holds, cost the most to trade. - **Drawdowns are the price of the return.** FinX stars fell 37.8% from a peak inside a 24-week backtest. If you would have sold at the bottom of that drop, the total return above would not have been yours. If you have used Quiver Quantitative, Autopilot, Composer or Unusual Whales, the idea will be familiar. Quiver publishes rule-based strategies built on public filings, with long backtests. Autopilot mirrors the portfolios of politicians and fund managers in a linked brokerage account. Composer lets you build and automate your own rule-based strategies. Unusual Whales runs two ETFs, NANC and KRUZ, that hold stocks members of Congress have disclosed. Quantral's strategies are built on the sources we track, with the backtest and the live record kept apart, and they sit next to the scores and graded voices you already use in the app. **[What is a model portfolio](/learn/what-is-a-model-portfolio)** covers how to read any of them. ## Also in Claude and ChatGPT The [Quantral MCP server](/mcp) has the same four strategies. Connect it to Claude or ChatGPT and you can ask for this week's Capitol list, what changed in Insiders, or how Deep dives has done against the S&P 500, and get the answer from the same data the app uses. ## Common questions ### What is Quantral Strategies? A tab in the Quantral app with four model portfolios: Insiders, FinX stars, Capitol and Deep dives. Each is a 10-stock, equal-weight list of NYSE and Nasdaq stocks, rebuilt every Monday before the US open and tracked against the S&P 500. ### Are the strategies stock recommendations? No. They are tracked model portfolios: a stated rule, the list it produces each week, and a record of how that list did. They show what insiders, Congress and the voices we track are putting money or conviction behind. You still decide what to research and what to buy. ### Why are the backtests so far ahead of the S&P 500? The backtests are hypothetical, before costs, and written with hindsight about those years, and each covers a different stretch of market. They also came with drops of 20.9% to 37.8% along the way. The live record, which started on September 21, 2026, is the fairer test, and the app shows it separately. ### How often do the lists change? Every Monday before the US open. The app shows what came in and what went out each week, and the weekly record keeps every past list. ### Where do the picks come from? Insiders uses open-market insider buys from SEC filings, the same ones on the [insider trading tracker](/insider-trading-tracker). Capitol uses STOCK Act disclosures, the filings behind the [Congress stock tracker](/congress-stock-tracker). FinX stars uses the graded calls of the X accounts we track, the same records behind the [leaderboard](/leaderboard). Deep dives uses bullish write-ups on X and Substack from the authors we follow. ### Who can see Strategies? Paid subscribers, on the web at app.quantral.com/strategies, on iOS and on Android. It is part of the existing subscription, with no separate charge. ## Try it Strategies is in the Quantral app on the web at [app.quantral.com](https://app.quantral.com), on iOS and on Android, and in the Quantral MCP server. It comes with the Quantral subscription, $14.99 a month or $119.99 a year, after a 7-day free trial. For the four strategies on one page, see **[Quantral Strategies](/strategies)**. Figures above are hypothetical backtests through the September 21, 2026 list, before costs. For the current lists and the live record, open the [Quantral app](https://app.quantral.com). --- *Quantral surfaces signals and context from public sources to support your own research. The backtest figures are hypothetical: nobody held these portfolios during those periods, and past results, simulated or live, do not predict future returns. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell.*