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Aurornistoday at 2:27 PM3 repliesview on HN

The fact that Nancy Pelosi became the meme for congress members trading stocks is more political than anything. The actual top performing congressional portfolios never make as much news. Pelosi doesn’t make as many trades as other members like Marjorie Taylor Green, who gets a free pass for some reason.

And everyone ignores the fact that her husband is a professional in the finance and venture capital world. Investing is literally his job.

Anyway, if you want to track her trades there are ETFs to do it. It’s not an exclusive investment thing. If you’re in the US you could buy them from your broker right now.

There are also countless sites that will push the Nancy Pelosi portfolio to your inbox, but they’re universally spammy and almost always pushing some other agenda too.

As a rule: If they’re focused specifically on Nancy Pelosi and not looking at top congressional trades as a whole, they’re more interested in pushing a political content than financial content.

Oh, and it’s important to know that you can’t actually track congressional portfolios in real time. The disclosures are delayed so you can only track them after the fact. If you believe they’re front-running insider info then the changes may have happened before you could possibly get the signal to buy or sell.


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jimbohntoday at 3:16 PM

MTG is part of the side that has won the social media influence game (via bots/russians/etc.), so of course, she doesn't get as targeted.

kortillatoday at 2:31 PM

MTG gets a pass because she’s relatively new and mostly irrelevant. She’s also not on the side you expect to be better about avoiding shading money schemes given all of the public positioning.

One smacks of hypocrisy while the other is a dirt bag behaving exactly as expected.

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HardCodedBiastoday at 3:46 PM

MTG does better than Nancy?

https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Marjo...

https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy...

Sure doesn't look like it.

It looks like she buys and holds, unlikely nancy. And it looks like she bought some AMD which had great returns (oh how I wish I bought it) and held it.

Looks like a false claim to me.