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Show HN: See the stock trades your representative is making

#1
Hey HN,

I am the creator of senatestockwatcher.com and im finally happy to say that the same data that is filed from the House of Representatives is now live for everyone to watch, report against, and use.

https://housestockwatcher.com

When Senate Stock Watcher was released, the US was in the midst of an election year and after the COVID market crash the SEC had opened some investigations on 3 Senators for insider trading allegations. My interest in politics and finance lead me to build that website, but the number one question I always got was "where is the houses' data?"

The House of Reps exclusively files their transactions reports in PDF forms that vary wildly in quality and format, so OCR was not a trustworthy and tenable solution. There is a supporting platform for the community to contribute to this dataset so that it can eventually be 100% complete.

To date, I have transcribed over 690 transactions. There are literally hundreds of thousands more to go. If you would like to help on this front - you can also go to: https://contributor.housestockwatcher.com

This data is available, totally open, in both JSON and CSV format so that people more savvy than me can uncover trends and patterns.

Re: Show HN: See the stock trades your representative is making

#3
What do you see as the primary use-case for this, especially in light of new proposals to limit congressional stock trading?

For example, is there a plan to surface the names and faces of the top congresspeople based on their suspicious activity? And then automatically tweet about it or something?

Re: Show HN: See the stock trades your representative is making

#10
Well this is fascinating. Thanks for making it. The SEC probably already does this kind of analysis but it makes me wonder if you could look at historical data to see which trades represented the highest gains or most relevant timing.

From there you could to try to identify which congresspeople engage in the most insider trading.

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