Congress's 2026 trading report: who traded, who beat the market, who filed late

Members of Congress disclosed 5,485 trades made January 1 through October 22, 2026: 117 members, between $240M and $614M in reported ranges. 895 of the trades (16%) were filed after the 45-day deadline. The median trade took 26 days to show up in a filing.

These are disclosed trades, read from the House Clerk and Senate eFD filings. Nothing here suggests anyone traded on nonpublic information. A member who filed late or trailed the market isn't shown to have done anything wrong, and one who beat it isn't shown to have done anything right.

To cite: Greederboard, "Congress's 2026 trading report," greederboard.com/report/2026/, data through October 22, 2026. The page rebuilds nightly, so numbers move as new filings arrive. Underlying data: trades.csv · This report's tables by member (report-2026.csv).

Filings report each trade as a range, such as $15,001–$50,000, never an exact amount. The low and high totals add up every trade's bottom and top. The 9 trades with an open-ended top range count at their lower bound in both. Any dollar figure below marked "midpoint" uses the middle of each range, so it's an estimate: $427M for all trades.

1. The most active traders

The ten busiest members account for 3,848 of the 5,485 trades (70%). A trade here is one line on a filing, so a single rebalancing can add dozens.

2. Most-traded tickers and sectors

4,202 of the 5,485 trades carry a ticker; the rest are bonds, funds without a listed symbol and similar assets. Sectors come from each issuer's SEC industry code.

3. Who beat the market, and who didn't

Each member's disclosed stock and fund trades since January 2024 are rebuilt as a portfolio and compared with the same dollars put into the S&P 500 on the same days. Only the 67 members with at least 5 priced purchases are ranked, and the window is since January 2024, not 2026 alone, because a single year holds too few trades to compare fairly. 29 of the 67 beat the index. Pooled by dollars, Congress's trades returned +63.4% against +51.4% for the S&P 500 (+12.0 pts), through October 21, 2026.

Since January 2024. Returns are money-weighted, and trade sizes are range midpoints, so every member's figure depends on where in each range the real amount fell. Excess is in percentage points. A member with only a handful of purchases can post a large number from a few trades.

How much that assumption matters: rerun with every trade at the bottom of its range, the pooled result is +13.8 pts; at the midpoint, +12.0 pts; at the top, +11.6 pts. Across all three, Congress as a whole lands +11.6 pts to +13.8 pts against the index, and 29 of 67 ranked members beat it. Each member's own result is rerun the same way: the small line under each excess figure is its range, from the lowest to the highest of the three readings. None of the 20 members listed changes sign across the range; each beats the index, or trails it, at every reading. How the portfolios are built →

4. Who filed late

The law gives members 45 days from learning of a trade to file it. 16 of the 117 members who traded filed at least one trade after that. The ten with the most late trades filed 889 of the 895 late trades overall.

Late = filed more than 45 days after the trade date, as the filing records it. "Late reports" counts the separate filings those trades appeared in: one report can carry hundreds of trades, so a large count can come from a single late filing. "Longest overdue" is days past the deadline.

5. Trading volume by party

Trade counts, dollar ranges and late filings for Democrats, Republicans and Independents, side by side. The parties don't have the same number of members trading, so the per-member column is the fairer comparison.

Party is the member's current party. "Midpoint share" depends on range midpoints; the other columns don't. This is volume, not performance, and it says nothing about intent.