About This Project

House Stock Trades is a transparency-focused project that tracks and visualizes U.S. House Representatives' stock trades.

The site analyzes publicly available financial disclosure data from members of Congress and overlays that with historical stock prices to allow better insight into how trades align with political activity.

This can provide valuable insights into trades, as the House's disclosure website only provides PDFs that cannot be organized by date and lacks many features that would improve transparency.

Purpose

This project aims to highlight potential conflicts of interest and market timing by elected officials. By bringing visibility to this data, users can better analyze patterns, volume, and timing of political trades.

Only public stock trades are included - assets like real estate and bonds are excluded to keep the focus sharp and relevant.

Data Sources

All financial data is scraped or processed from official filings found on the House Financial Disclosure portal.

Stock prices are matched using archived market data for accuracy and aligned by date to track legislative influence.

About the Developer

This site was built as a personal side project to blend civic interest with web development. All source code for this project is available on my GitHub repository.