Smart Money / Congress
U.S. House and Senate members disclose their stock trades under the STOCK Act. Gunpowder turns those public disclosures into ranked briefings — who is trading, who is trading in their own oversight sectors, and who files late.
Every disclosed trade is scored on size, committee-sector alignment, peer clustering, timing, and the member’s profile — so the consequential trades rise to the top.
We flag trades by members in sectors the committees they sit on directly oversee — the disclosures most worth a closer read.
The STOCK Act sets disclosure deadlines. We surface filings that landed late, with the disclosure lag in days.
Sourced from U.S. House Clerk disclosures and Senate filings — all public record. New to how the disclosure regime works? Read what the STOCK Act requires.
Gunpowder provides this as news and communications-media analysis of public disclosures — it is not trading advice or a recommendation.
Every disclosed trade gets a deterministic Congressional Score from 0–100 — no black box, no opaque AI weighting. The five factors below add up, so the consequential disclosures rise to the top of each briefing.
A high score doesn’t allege wrongdoing. It flags a disclosure worth a closer look — a large position, in a sector the member’s committee directly oversees, clustered with trades by other members in the same name, filed promptly by someone in leadership. Read it as a ranking of where to spend attention, and always weight it against the filing lag, since a trade can surface up to 45 days after the fact.
No. The score measures how noteworthy a disclosure is for analysis — size, committee overlap, clustering, timeliness — not its legality. It ranks attention, not wrongdoing.
A trade in a company or sector that a committee the member sits on directly oversees. It lifts the score because of the potential information advantage, but it is not itself a violation.
Disclosures arrive up to 45 days after a trade under the STOCK Act, and sometimes later. We flag the filing lag so you can weight recency yourself.
Yes. Disclosures are filed per member, so the data supports per-member portfolios and histories. The briefings surface the most active and most consequential members each period, and flag who is trading in their own committee’s sectors.