How CongressSignal works
No edge cases, no black box. Here’s exactly how a congressional filing becomes a signal on your phone.
Where the data comes from
Every transaction we surface originates from a mandatory public filing. House members file Periodic Transaction Reports with the Clerk of the House; Senators file with the Secretary of the Senate. Both are required under the 2012 STOCK Act. We poll both portals continuously and ingest each new disclosure as it appears.
How we parse it
Disclosures are filed as PDFs — often scanned, inconsistently formatted, and not machine-readable. We run each filing through an extraction pipeline that pulls the member, asset, transaction type, date, and disclosed dollar range, then matches the asset to a live market ticker. Anything ambiguous is flagged for human review before it reaches the feed.
How performance is scored
The leaderboard ranks members by the price performance of the tickers they disclosed, measured from the transaction date over a trailing 12-month window. Because filings disclose a dollar range rather than an exact amount, these figures are directional indicators of trade quality — not audited, realized returns.
What the alerts contain
A signal includes the member, their party and state, the ticker, the transaction type, the disclosed dollar range, the filing date, and that member’s historical track record. Insider and Autopilot subscribers receive these in real time; the free Watchlist tier receives a delayed, abbreviated version.
What we do not do
We do not provide financial advice, recommend specific trades, or guarantee outcomes. We do not predict future filings. CongressSignal is an information service: we make public disclosures fast, clean, and legible. Every investment decision is yours.
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