Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
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Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
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#2Where are they aggregating all this insider data from? Is there an index of stocks being traded by government insiders and officials that can be tracked in real-time?
Re: Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
#3Where are they aggregating all this insider data from? Is there an index of stocks being traded by government insiders and officials that can be tracked in real-time?
Real time? No. The legislators have to report their trades a couple months after they make them, IIRC.
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#4Where are they aggregating all this insider data from? Is there an index of stocks being traded by government insiders and officials that can be tracked in real-time?
It talks about that pretty high up on the site that is linked. Just go read it.
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#5Unsurprisingly, vast majority of $ traded in Energy and Industrials is by GOP, and in tech is by Dems.
Then there's this:
> Meanwhile, Republican Congressman Mark Green, alone, accounts for 99% of the stock purchases in oil and gas companies like USA Compression and Energy Transfer.
Look this guy up [1]:
> Green rejects the scientific consensus that human activity plays a key role in climate change.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_E._Green#Climate_change
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#6Where are they aggregating all this insider data from? Is there an index of stocks being traded by government insiders and officials that can be tracked in real-time?
> Like the US Senate, elected members in the US House of Representatives must disclose financial activity they or their spouse or their dependent children conduct while in office. These financial disclosures can be found here.
https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/data
Looks like the report gets filed shortly after the trade.
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#7Where are they aggregating all this insider data from? Is there an index of stocks being traded by government insiders and officials that can be tracked in real-time?
If I had to guess I'd say they're probably using EDGAR - https://www.sec.gov/edgar
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#8The title is "On Life, Liberty, and Stock Markets" (h2.. most prominent on page), or "Unusual Whales" (html.head.title). While this title might be a synopsis, it doesn't exactly hit the guidelines[https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html]
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#9The very people whose job it should be to stop this sort of thing are the ones who are profiting from it. How do you change this?
No really, how can we force congress to change the rules so that elected officials can't profit from inside information? Why would they ever vote for such a bill?
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#10The very people whose job it should be to stop this sort of thing are the ones who are profiting from it. How do you change this? No really, how can we force congress to change the rules so that elected officials can't profit from inside information? Why would they ever vote for such a bill?
Constitutional amendment?