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Congressional trade intelligence · scored daily

They trade on
information you'll never have.

SwampInsiders scores every congressional stock trade 0–130 and flags the ones worth acting on — so you don't have to read 10,000 filings a year.

535 members of Congress file STOCK Act disclosures. Most are noise. A few are committee insiders buying in their exact jurisdiction — ahead of policy decisions, federal contracts, and hearings the public hasn't heard about yet. We find those trades automatically. Every day.

51% win rate on High-signal trades — backtested out-of-sample
Only ~5% of trades score High — precision over volume
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For: active traders · retail investors who follow political money · swing traders watching policy

Live signal
SwampScore™
$NVDAPURCHASE
NVIDIA Corporation
0/ 130
LOW SIGNAL
Politician
Michael McCaul
Committee
House Foreign Affairs
Position
$250k+ Purchase
Disclosed
7 days after trade
Score breakdown
Committee Overlap ×1.15+69
Herding Cluster (3 peers)+15
Trade Impact ($250k+)+15
Politician Alpha (Sector)+10
Direction + Disclosure+6
Federal Award
SwampScore
97HIGH

What you get · by the numbers

51%
win rate on High-signal trades — backtested out-of-sample
5.1%
of all trades score High — rare by design, not by accident
10,000+
STOCK Act filings per year — we filter them down to the ones that matter
€0
to start — free tier shows scores on every trade, no card needed

Congress beats the market consistently — not because they're better stock-pickers, but because they trade what they regulate. Committee seats, hearing schedules, and federal contracts create a legal information advantage. SwampInsiders scores every trade against those factors so you can spot the ones that actually matter.

The problem with every other tool

You can see the trade.
You can't tell if it matters.

Capitol Trades shows you the filing. Unusual Whales posts it on Twitter. But none of them answer the real question: is this trade actually a signal?

"How do I know if there are real signals this week, or just noise?"

SwampScore gives every trade a 0–130 score. Only 5.1% qualify as High. The rest you can safely ignore.

"I don't know if this is rebalancing or signal."

Six causal factors — committee seat, herding, federal money flow, track record — separate conviction from noise.

"Is this congressman even on the right committee?"

Every trade is committee-mapped automatically. Direct jurisdiction scores 3× higher than tangential sector overlap.

"Are other members piling in at the same time?"

Herding is auto-detected. When 3+ peers buy the same ticker within 14 days, the score spikes +15 pts.

"I can't cross-reference government contracts manually."

USASpending.gov is synced daily. Federal contract within 90 days of the trade = +20 pts automatically.

"There's too much to filter through."

High / Medium / Low. Open an alert, read the label, decide in 10 seconds. That's it.

What SwampInsiders checks on every trade

Six questions.
Answered in seconds.

These are the checks a professional analyst would run manually — taking hours. SwampInsiders runs all six automatically the moment a filing hits gov.

1

Is this congressman on the committee that oversees this company?

2

Does this committee actually have market power?

3

Are multiple members piling in at the same time?

4

What's this politician's track record in this sector?

5

Did a government contract just land at this company?

6

Is this a self-directed position or a spousal account?

All six factors are computed automatically on every trade. The result is a single SwampScore (0–130) and a plain-English label: High / Medium / Low. You don't have to read the filings. You don't have to know the committee structure. We did it.

Behind the scenes

From Congress to your inbox
in hours.

Here's exactly how a trade goes from a congressman's brokerage account to a scored signal in your feed.

01Filed

Congressman discloses a trade via the STOCK Act. Up to 45 days after execution.

02Scraped

Our scrapers hit house.gov and senate.gov every 4 hours. New filings ingested automatically.

03Scored

Six factors computed instantly: committee overlap, herding, federal contracts, alpha, leadership.

04Verified

USASpending.gov cross-referenced daily. FEC donor data matched. Herding cluster auto-detected.

05Delivered

High signals (≥90) appear in your feed within hours. Real-time push alerts for Insider+ members.

Data sources: house.gov · senate.gov · USASpending.gov · FEC schedule_a · Senate LDA API · Congress.gov hearings·Scored trades are stored and permanently accessible — every signal is auditable.

Common objection

“By the time it's disclosed,
the market already moved.”

Only true for the wrong trades. When a congressman on the Armed Services Committee buys a defense contractor 10 days before a procurement announcement — the 45-day disclosure lag is irrelevant. The committee advantage creates a 6–12 month structural tailwind, not a single-day pop.

SwampScore only flags the trades where the underlying informational asymmetry is durable. Direct committee jurisdiction + herding + federal money flow = a signal that doesn't expire in 48 hours.

Trades where 45-day lag kills the signal

Single-event price reaction — market prices in the filing immediately.

Low score

Trades where committee jurisdiction creates 6-month alpha

Policy advantage + regulatory foreknowledge = persistent edge.

High score

Trades where herding confirms coordination

3+ peers buying in 14 days — not coincidence. Not priced in yet.

High score

Real trades · real scores

See the engine
score real trades.

Five documented congressional trades — with every scoring factor shown. One of them is a score we're proud to get wrong.

$NVDAHIGH · 97

Armed Services + $250k buy + 3 herding peers

Michael McCaul

$AMZNMEDIUM · 62

Senate Intelligence — broad jurisdiction, no herding

Mark Warner

$BALOW · 28

Armed Services member buys defense — but alpha is negative

Roger Wicker

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