How do you track congressional stock trades?
Last checked 28 August 2026
The filings are public and free. The House publishes PTRs through the Clerk of the House and the Senate through its Office of Public Records, both searchable on the web. Several free and paid tools index them; the practical difference between those tools is alerting, coverage beyond Congress, and how much analysis sits on top.
Reading the filings directly
Free, authoritative, and slow. The disclosures are published as documents rather than as data, so following a filer means checking a search page and reading PDFs. Fine for a specific question, impractical for staying current.
Free web trackers
Capitol Trades and Tracefour index congressional filings and are free to browse. They are a reasonable starting point if you want to look something up rather than be told when it happens.
Paid data platforms
Quiver Quantitative and Unusual Whales sell deeper datasets and an API, priced for people running their own analysis. Worth it if you want to query the data yourself; more than most readers need.
Alerting apps
This is the category Tracked Money is in: the point is being told when a filing lands rather than remembering to look. Compare the options — we keep honest comparisons that say where each rival is the better choice.
What to check before trusting any of them
Does it link each figure back to the source document? Does it show the filing date as well as the transaction date, so you can see the lag? Does it report sizes as the ranges that were actually disclosed, rather than a made-up precise number? Those three answers tell you most of what you need.
How Tracked Money uses this
Tracked Money reads these filings and tells you when one lands — congressional PTRs, insider Form 4s, 13F changes, dark-pool prints and federal contract awards. Every figure links back to the document it came from. Tracked Money has not shipped on the App Store yet.
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Tracked Money tracks public STOCK Act and 13F disclosures. This page explains public rules and is not legal or investment advice. Regulatory details were verified on 28 August 2026 and can change.