Congress WatchBacktest copying a member of Congress
Pick a politician and see what would have happened if you had bought and sold the same stocks a few days after each filing became public. The simulation only uses information that was public at that moment.
Darrell E. Issa: 2026-01-01 to 2026-11-09
$10,000 invested became $10,000 by copying Darrell E. Issa, against $10,799 in the S&P 500: 8.0 percentage points behind the index.
Portfolio value (teal) and the same deposits in SPY (red). Green dots are copied purchases and red dots copied sales (at most 300 are drawn). Returns are time-weighted, so deposits do not count as gains.
Gain or loss by month
Monthly return of the whole portfolio, cash included. Green months gained, red months lost; darker means a bigger move.
Copied trades by month
Buys and sells the simulation executed each month; darker means more.
What was left out
- 0 copy orders were not placed (no price history, no cash left, or the 20-position limit).
- 22 disclosed lines could not be copied: 21 bond or other debt, not an ordinary stock or ETF; 1 unsupported asset type.
The latest disclosure is dated 2026-11-05. Trades filed after that date are not in the dataset yet.
No disclosed trades matched these settings, so the portfolio only holds cash.
22 disclosed trade(s) were excluded: 21 bond or other debt, not an ordinary stock or ETF; 1 unsupported asset type.
Hypothetical result with a 3-day delay, 5 basis points slippage, no fees and no leverage. See the methodology. Not investment advice.