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Congress
The Congress Trading Reality Check: does copying politicians actually beat the market?
We tested all 19,670 disclosed House stock buys since 2013, entering on the disclosure date you could actually trade. The median member loses to the S&P — and the Pelosi headlines aren't what they seem.
July 18, 2026 · 6 min · #pelosi #backtest #survivorship
Methodology
Does our own trading bot actually work? The honest backtest.
We audit everyone else's edge, so here's ours. Our insider-cluster strategy's out-of-sample alpha is +3.5% per trade — but a 44% win rate and a flat in-sample number mean it's small and within noise. Shown in full.
July 18, 2026 · 6 min · #backtest #routine-opportunistic