# Congress-Bets

> Free email alerts when US Congress members buy or sell stocks

Congress-Bets is a free service that tracks stock trades made by members of the United States Congress. Under the STOCK Act (2012), all members of Congress must publicly disclose stock transactions within 45 days of the trade date. Congress-Bets monitors these filings and sends email alerts to subscribers.

## What Congress-Bets Does

- Tracks stock trades disclosed by 160+ US politicians (House and Senate)
- Sends free email alerts when tracked politicians buy or sell stocks
- Shows each politician's estimated yearly returns and trading history
- Displays current open positions (net buy positions from disclosed trades)
- Provides both politician returns (based on actual trade dates) and copycat returns (based on disclosure dates, simulating what a retail investor following their trades would earn)

## Key Politicians Tracked

The most-tracked politicians include Nancy Pelosi, Tommy Tuberville, Dan Crenshaw, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and many others. Users can select any combination of 160+ active and former members of Congress.

## How It Works

1. Users visit https://congress-bets.com and select politicians to track
2. They enter their email and verify it
3. The system checks for new trade filings every 4 hours
4. When a new disclosure is filed, subscribers receive an email with trade details (ticker, buy/sell, size, dates)
5. A welcome email shows the selected politicians' current holdings and recent trades

## Data Sources

- Capitol Trades (recent trade disclosures via RSS)
- House Financial Disclosure reports (historical trades from PDFs, 2008+)
- Senate Electronic Financial Disclosures (historical trades, 2012+)
- Yahoo Finance (stock price data for return calculations)

## Performance Metrics

- **Politician return**: Estimated return using trade-date close prices (what the politician actually earned)
- **Copycat return ("You")**: Estimated return using next-day open prices after disclosure date (what you'd earn copying their trades with the public disclosure delay)
- Returns are volume-weighted averages per year

## Important Notes

- Congress members have up to 45 days to disclose trades, so there is always a delay
- Trade sizes are reported in ranges (e.g., $1,001–$15,000), not exact amounts
- This is NOT financial advice — data may be incomplete, delayed, or inaccurate
- The service is completely free with no paid tier

## Pages

- Home: https://congress-bets.com/
- About: https://congress-bets.com/about
- Privacy Policy: https://congress-bets.com/privacy
- Manage Subscription: https://congress-bets.com/manage

## Contact

Congress-Bets is an independent project. For questions, use the email subscription management tools on the site.