Methodology
Where the trades come from, what each figure means, and what is not measured.
Sources
STOCK Act Periodic Transaction Reports filed by members of Congress (House and Senate), plus executive-branch OGE 278-T filings, as ingested by Signal8. Amounts are the disclosed ranges. Coverage is whatever has been ingested, not a claim of completeness.
What each figure means
Filed is the date the report was filed. Traded is the transaction date the report states. Amount is the reporting band as filed; it is never turned into a single number. Owner is who held the asset: the member, a spouse, jointly, or a dependent child.
Days to file is the number of calendar days from the transaction date to the filing date. A trade is counted as late when that is more than 45 days. Estimated profit and loss, per member and on the top traders ranking, is computed from the disclosed ranges and market prices: an estimate, never the filer's own figures, and labelled as one wherever it appears.
What is not measured
When a report leaves out a date, an amount or a ticker, the page says "Not measured" rather than show zero or guess. A trade with a missing date is left out of the late count in both directions. An asset with no listed ticker, such as a fund or a bond, is named as filed and has no stock page.
Someone with no trade on this site has no disclosed trade in CongressScan data, which is not proof that they never traded. Reports can be amended after they are filed, and CongressScan can be late or wrong. Write to support with the filing if something looks off.
Free and paid
Free: the politician, the stock, whether it was a purchase or a sale, and the filing date, for every trade, plus the counts on each page and the late filer list. The CongressScan plan adds the amount, the trade date, the days to file, the owner and estimated profit and loss. See pricing.
Not investment advice
CongressScan publishes public disclosure data for information only. It does not recommend buying or selling anything.