House Trades Watch — Congressional Stock Trade Digest

Skip the database. Get the brief.

The raw filings are public and free — so why pay? Because free trackers are
databases: you visit, search, filter, and read for fifteen minutes to find out
whether anything mattered. House Trades Watch is a brief. Three headline
bullets, one summary line, the trades worth your attention with the committees
those members sit on, and a watchlist that explains silence instead of printing
a zero.

The number everyone prints, and the one almost nobody does

Congress must disclose every stock trade within 45 days, and that clock runs
from the trade — a filing months late is late, full stop. But the filing also
records the date the member says they were notified, and an advisor-managed
account can notify someone long after the fact.

Every late filer gets both clocks. Here is an actual row:

Member	Committees	Trades	Days after trade	Days after notice
Michael Patrick Guest (R-MS03)	Ethics, Appropriations	3	241 days	1 day

A tracker that prints only "241 days" has just accused a member of the Ethics
Committee of sitting on three trades for eight months. He filed the day after
he was told. Both numbers come off the filing itself, and both are in the
report — because a brief you can't trust is worth less than the free database.

Headlines from a recent edition, copied exactly as the report printed them

• Portfolio sweep: Richard Dean McCormick (R-GA07) sold 25 positions in a
  single day (2026-07-30) — AAPL, ABT, ADI, ADP, APD — and bought BRK.B
• Filed late: Shri Thanedar (D-MI13), who sits on Agriculture,
  disclosed 2 trades 216–296 days after the trade date on the filing
  (statutory limit: 45 days)

Delivered inside your agent as Markdown, so you can follow up against the report
you just received — "only the semiconductor trades", "just the late filings",
"cross-check these against my portfolio" — and name members to watch when you
ask for the next one.

What you get

• Highlights — the window in three edited bullets, not a list dump
• By the numbers — trade count, buy/sell split, median trade→filing lag, and
  how many rows landed past the 45-day deadline, in a single line
• ⚠️ Filed past the 45-day deadline — every member who ran past the limit,
  both clocks, and the committees they sit on, stated as public fact
• Notable trades — up to 10 standouts, each with Buy/Sell, an amount
  badge, and why it made the list: large amount, oversight overlap (an
  Intelligence Committee member buying cybersecurity names is shown as exactly
  that), or several members trading the same ticker the same way. Capped at 2
  rows per member, so one filer's bond ladder never crowds the table
• New disclosures — every machine-readable trade; a member's same-day
  portfolio sweep collapses into one row, repeat trades group, full rows in the
  appendix
• Corrections to older filings — when a member amends a trade first
  disclosed months ago, it is listed by name instead of buried in a count
• 30-day trend — most-bought and most-sold with the members named; a ticker
  traded the same way by three or more members is labelled consensus
• Monday editions — a "Last week in review" block: volume, biggest trade,
  and late-filing count for the past seven days
• Watchlist — your members up front, with last-filing links and paper-filer
  warnings — never an unexplained zero
• Transparency — the parse rate is printed every run (100% on a typical
  day), every filing that could NOT be read is listed with a link, and a legend
  explains every badge in the report

How the numbers are kept honest

Amendments are reconciled before anything is counted. A corrected row replaces
the original. A row the member later deleted is marked withdrawn and dropped
from every total. A filing whose trade date was mistyped by a year is merged
with its correction instead of being reported as a ten-month-late disclosure.
Committee membership is listed as public fact, never as an allegation.

Input / Output

Input: optional watchlist of member last names.
Output: a Markdown report (Highlights / Notable trades / New disclosures /
Corrections / Filed past the 45-day deadline / 30-day trend / Watchlist /
Transparency) plus a short summary that leads with the story, not the table.

Details & caveats

US House coverage only (Senate planned). Filings lag trades by up to 45 days by
law. ~8 members (varies by year, incl. Khanna and Cole) file paper scans that
cannot be parsed — those are linked, never hidden.

Single network source: the official disclosures-clerk.house.gov portal. No other
endpoints, and no user data leaves the sandbox.

News-media-style dissemination of public statutory disclosures.
Not investment advice.