Show HN: A website that tracks every stock trade Congress makes

https://congress.kadoa.com/

by hubraumhugo • 2 months ago

63 25 2 months ago

congress.kadoa.com

Congressional trading data is relatively commoditized, but I couldn't find any open-source version with the features I wanted.

The data is lagged (median 28 days from trade to disclosure, and 19% miss this deadline), but there's still interesting patterns to explore.

Repo: https://github.com/kadoa-org/congress-trading-monitor

Let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements!

zitoshi• 2 months ago

Trumps not holding Micron?

hubraumhugo2• 2 months ago

At least it's not disclosed in any of his 278-T transactions (1,391 trades, which is not the full picture)

conditionnumber• 2 months ago

Cool. It looks like you're packaging the data as json files in the repo. Would be neat to see the pipeline that collects it.

hubraumhugo2• 2 months ago

The data pipelines need some more work to be OS ready, but it's on my list.

exabrial2• 2 months ago

I wish it were realtime. We could all be quazillionnaires.

tracker1• 2 months ago

I wish congress members, staffers and 2nd level family all had to pre-announce buy/sale orders by 1 business day.

exabrial2• 2 months ago

precisely!

Laurel1234• 2 months ago

It's crazy they don't need to, honestly.

dzhiurgis• 2 months ago

Can you make sure cmd+click works correctly

frasermarlow2• 2 months ago

Remind me to come check this tracker after the SpaceXAI IPO.

frasermarlow2• 2 months ago

On that topic: this is both entertaining and scary, especially the bit that says they fast-tracked into the NASDAQ 100 so whether you like it or not you have to buy into Elon Musk's financial house of cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHD8BDFYyGI

troyvit• 2 months ago

Naive question but you could move all your stuff out of NASDAQ before the IPO right? The downside is that you'd have to keep it out of NASDAQ until SPCX is finished cratering it?

There's a section in this article that offers some slightly different views on the IPO: https://rubbishtalk.com/world/dow-50k-2t-ipo-and-the-iran-de...

It make it more solidly clear how this really is an IPO for all 3 orgs: SpaceX, X, and xAI which helped me understand more of the video.

The Launch segment posted $4.1 billion in revenue but a $657 million operating loss, driven by roughly $3 billion in Starship R&D — a deliberate strategic bet, not a distressed business.

All in all it reflects a ton of what the youtube video says though (I haven't finished the video though). It adds some color.

3eb7988a1663• 2 months ago

Is there going to be any accountability to the people at NASDAQ who made this decision? Surely the big investors not on the inside of SpaceX must be mad about these shenanigans? Or is it all an insider's club, where each party is hoping for their own turn to make a big gift?

trick-or-treat• 2 months ago

What does imaginary portfolio mean? It's not clear whether you're claiming these numbers are real or imaginary.

bixdot• 2 months ago

Open-source repo + public source disclosures + reproducible pipeline already puts this above 90% of “AI insight” products.

ramon156• 2 months ago

Does it? Unusualwhales already provides the same data with a bit of insight. They also trade via shell companies (used to just call them straw buyers).

Id say its just another version

krunck• 2 months ago

It's the undisclosed trades hidden behind shell companies and family connections that we should all be scrutinizing.

photonair• 2 months ago

useful data. thanks for putting it together. what's some of your data source?

slater• 2 months ago

Could you add a column with the person's political affiliation?

tkcashman• 2 months ago

This is exactly the kind of visibility we need for our leaders. Unfortunately, these days many people are so jaded about them that we accept any malfeasance to be business as usual.

bicepjai• 2 months ago

How is this okay? Public service used to mean sacrifice. Now it’s just self-enrichment

_blk• 2 months ago

What do you mean? Prohibit trading while in office? I'd argue that it's a pretty big sacrifice to have to make your trades public while in office (but IMHO the reporting deadline should be sooner i.e. automated instant-reporting.)

imviky• 2 months ago

Great work and looks really neat. is the disclouse made within 45 days of the trade?

nexadecimal• 2 months ago

This looks cool. Exactly what I've been looking for.

scamdrill• 2 months ago

Nice job with this. Easy to use interface with timely info to keep people informed and improve transparency.

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