A plain-English guide grouped by the page where each element appears.
Calculations used to rank politicians.
Models the member’s portfolio from trade dates. Positions use the geometric midpoint of disclosed dollar brackets; low- and high-bound reruns create the displayed percentage range. Every simulation starts at 0%.
Models an outsider copying on filing dates. Every buy adds one equal-size unit; repeat buys add units. Full sales close the stock, partial sales halve its units, and dollar brackets are ignored.
A buy succeeds when it beats the S&P 500 over the selected 30 or 90 days; a sale succeeds when it underperforms. A trade is ineligible until that full future horizon has happened and prices exist.
Calendar days from trade to filing. Green is 0–22, grey 23–35, amber 36–45. Red overrides the median color when the relevant scope contains any filing above the 45-day limit.
Totals disclosed low and high bounds. Sorting uses the arithmetic midpoint of the displayed range.
Fields in the filing-day transaction feed.
Traded is when the transaction occurred. Filed is when it became public. Period access uses filing date, and one filing may contain several transaction rows.
The bracket for one transaction. Sorting uses its midpoint. See Home (Leaderboard) — Money traded for aggregation.
Compares the stock with the S&P 500 from the trade date through the latest close. Sales are neutral.
Opens the original House Clerk or Senate disclosure. It is evidence, not a calculated value, and is never sortable.
Calculations used to rank tickers.
Counts distinct politicians who disclosed at least one trade in the selected filing-date period.
Buy share is buys ÷ (buys + sells); exchanges are excluded. Above 55% is net buying, below 45% net selling, otherwise mixed.
The same aggregate range appears here. See Home (Leaderboard) — Money traded.
One member’s analysis and disclosed-trade table.
The page period is gated by filing date, not trade date. Both dates are shown so readers can see when the event happened and when outsiders learned about it.
Estimated Returns and Equal-Weight Returns reuse the ranking definitions. See Home (Leaderboard).
Money follows the leaderboard range method. Price coverage reports how many visible disclosures can be joined to comparable prices.
Both reappear on each disclosure row. See Home (Filings) — Stock since and Source.
One ticker’s analysis and politician activity table.
The page period is gated by filing date, not trade date. Both dates remain visible and sortable.
See Home (Stocks) — Members and Buys vs sells and Net direction.
See Home (Leaderboard) — Money traded.
See Home (Filings) — Stock since and Source.