About

Congress trades. The public record should keep up.

The STOCK Act made congressional stock trades public. It did not make them usable — they land as PDFs and web filings scattered across two systems, on a lag, in ranges. We are the publication that turns that record into data, minutes after it appears.

The mission

Transparency, with a market pulse

Wolves of Capitol Hill exists for two audiences at once. For the public and the press, congressional trading data is accountability: members of Congress write the laws, sit in the briefings, and trade the stocks. For traders and builders, it is signal: a documented, legally mandated record of what powerful, well-briefed people do with their own money.

Both audiences need the same thing — the complete record, fast, structured, and honest about its limits. So that is the product: every disclosure from both chambers, parsed into clean data with its provenance intact, delivered minutes after filing to a dashboard, an API, webhooks, and inboxes.

We are a media and analytics publication. We disseminate public STOCK Act data to the general public, we link every trade to its source filing, and we publish our methodology — including the parts that make the data less convenient than a marketing page would like.

Sources

Two systems, one feed

House disclosures come from the Clerk of the House financial-disclosure system, where Periodic Transaction Reports are published as a mix of structured filings and scanned documents. We watch it continuously, pull every new PTR and amendment, and archive the source document alongside the parsed trades.

Senate disclosures come from the Senate eFD (electronic Financial Disclosure) system, which has its own formats and its own quirks — including paper filings that arrive as scans. Same treatment: continuous watch, immediate parse, source archived, every trade linked back to the filing it came from.

Methodology

What this data is — and is not

Because the law only requires ranges. Disclosures report amount buckets — $1,001–$15,000 at the small end, rising to over $50,000,000 — and never exact values. We publish the bucket exactly as filed. Any dataset claiming exact congressional trade amounts is making them up.

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