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.
Pete Sessions: 2026-01-01 to 2026-11-10
$10,000 invested became $10,000 by copying Pete Sessions, 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
- 31 copy orders were not placed (no price history, no cash left, or the 20-position limit).
- 465 disclosed lines could not be copied: 385 executes before the backtest start; 52 bond or other debt, not an ordinary stock or ETF; 12 filed before the transaction date (inconsistent dates); 7 no usable ticker; 7 unsupported asset type; 1 transaction type not simulated (exchange); 1 transaction date is in the future (source error).
The latest disclosure is dated 2026-11-05. Trades filed after that date are not in the dataset yet.
31 copy order(s) were rejected; see the transaction log for each reason.
465 disclosed trade(s) were excluded: 385 executes before the backtest start; 52 bond or other debt, not an ordinary stock or ETF; 12 filed before the transaction date (inconsistent dates); 7 no usable ticker.
Hypothetical result with a 3-day delay, 5 basis points slippage, no fees and no leverage. See the methodology. Not investment advice.