congressional-trading-disclosureslisted

Build a congressional-trading signal on the disclosure date instead of the transaction date, and price what the amount brackets cost you. TRIGGER - congressional trading, congress stock trades, STOCK Act, Periodic Transaction Report, PTR, House Clerk financial disclosure, disclosures-clerk.house.gov, efdsearch.senate.gov, Senate eFD, senator trade trackers, "copy the trades Congress makes", "backtest congressional trades", "what did Congress buy", amount ranges, "$1,001 - $15,000", "how do I weight a trade disclosed as a bracket", the 45-day filing deadline, late PTR filings, scraping the House or Senate disclosure sites. SKIP for corporate insiders and Form 4 transaction codes (insider-form-4), for fund holdings and 13F staleness (institutional-13f), for social posts and influencer panels (social-and-influencer-feeds), for EDGAR endpoints and XBRL point-in-time fundamentals (fundamental-and-macro-data), and for the general availability rule and the five-gate audit (research-integrity-guards).
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# Congressional trading disclosures **The transaction date is on the filing, and it is not the date the information existed.** A Periodic Transaction Report is due up to 45 days after the trade, and the routine penalty for missing that is a $200 fee. Keying a backtest on the transaction date is the same bug `../../../fin-core/skills/fundamental-and-macro-data/SKILL.md` documents for a fiscal period end, in a domain where it is easier to make because the filing prints both dates side by side. Everything marked ✅ Measured is printed by `scripts/congress.py` (numpy + pandas, seed 20260910, about 15 s, no network). Its filings are **synthetic and seeded** - the lag distribution is one this repo chose and then measured back, not a tally of real filings. Everything marked ✅ source-verified was read at the URL given, on 2026-09-10. ## 1. ✅ The regime, at primary sources | Fact | Value | Source, read 2026-09-10 | |---|---|---| | **PTR deadline** | *"Not later than 30 days after receiving notification of any transaction"*, and *"in no case later than 45 days after such transaction"* | **5 U.S.C. 13105(l)** (`uscode.house.gov`) | | Reporting trigger | *"the gross amount of a single purchase or sale transaction exceeds $1,000"* - **gross**, so a losing trade still counts | House PTR form CY2025 (`ethics.house.gov`), 5 U.S.C. 13104(a)(5)(B) | | **Late-filing fee** | *"$200 penalty shall be assessed against anyone who files more than 30 days late"* | 5 U.S.C. 13106(d); House PTR form;