Members of Congress and senior executive-branch officials must publicly report many of their securities transactions. Those reports are public, but they are scattered across House Clerk PDFs, the Senate eFD system, and scanned ethics filings.
Bull & Gavel is a free news publication from ClearVoyant LLC that reports on public financial-disclosure filings. We compile the disclosed trades we have ingested from members of Congress and from executive-branch filers whose reports we can read (it is not a complete list of everyone who must file, and the filings themselves can be disclosed after the trade date, amended or incomplete). We note when a trade was reported more than 45 days after the transaction date shown on the filing. The STOCK Act's outer limit is 45 days after a transaction (or 30 days after the filer is notified, if sooner). Our count uses the dates printed on the report, cannot see extensions or the date the ethics office received the report, and is not a finding that any rule was broken. On the site we note when a reported transaction is in a sector we map to one of the filer's committees ("committee overlap"), and we set reported trades beside public policy actions — executive documents, agency moves, regulatory signals — on the same stock. We call that Convergence. It is a coincidence of public records, not evidence that anyone acted on non-public information.
We apply the same rules, flags and thresholds to every member of Congress and every executive-branch filer whose disclosures we publish, regardless of party or branch. We use the same counting method for every filer. We editorialize about patterns, never about parties.
Not investment advice, and not a stock-picking service. We tested this data for a trading edge and published the honest answer: after the disclosure lag, there isn't a reliable one. What the data is good for is public information — seeing what officials' reports disclose, for whose account, and when. Details in our methodology.
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