Congress Copy Calculator
See if copying Congress beats the S&P 500
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Tijn Knapen

Congress Copy Calculator - See if copying Congress beats the S&P 500

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Members of Congress trade stocks, and the law makes every trade public. This free tool lets you test whether copying them actually beats the market: pick a member, pick a dollar amount, and see what copying all their disclosed trades would be worth today, next to the same money in the S&P 500. Just pick and compare.

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Tijn Knapen
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Hey Product Hunt 👋 You've probably seen the headlines: a member of Congress posts a stock return that makes hedge funds look slow. And every one of those trades is public by law. So I kept wondering, if you'd just copied them, would you actually be ahead? I couldn't find a simple way to check, so I built Copy Congress. Pick a member, pick a dollar amount, and it shows what backing every trade they disclosed would be worth today, against the same money in the S&P 500 over the exact same dates. Some results are wild. Copy Marjorie Taylor Greene's trades and you'd be up 37%, against 16% for the S&P 500 over the same window. Others barely beat the market, or lose to it. Either way you can just check, free, no account.