https://filedtrades.pages.dev/blog/ Articles on how Congress and insider trade disclosures work, what the data shows and how the numbers on this site are built. en Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://filedtrades.pages.dev/blog/did-copying-congress-beat-the-market/ https://filedtrades.pages.dev/blog/did-copying-congress-beat-the-market/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Filed Trades congress performance statistics Average returns after Congress and insider buys, measured against the S&P 500 from the day after each filing, with sample sizes and a plain reading. https://filedtrades.pages.dev/blog/how-congress-stock-trade-disclosures-work/ https://filedtrades.pages.dev/blog/how-congress-stock-trade-disclosures-work/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Filed Trades congress disclosures stock-act Members of Congress must report stock trades within 45 days, in dollar ranges. Here is what a filing contains, what it leaves out and why it arrives late. https://filedtrades.pages.dev/blog/what-is-an-insider-cluster-buy/ https://filedtrades.pages.dev/blog/what-is-an-insider-cluster-buy/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Filed Trades insiders insider-buying signals A cluster buy is three or more company insiders buying the same stock on the open market within 30 days. Here is why it gets attention and how to read it. https://filedtrades.pages.dev/blog/why-leaderboards-should-rank-out-of-sample/ https://filedtrades.pages.dev/blog/why-leaderboards-should-rank-out-of-sample/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Filed Trades methodology statistics Ranking people on the same trades used to pick them rewards luck. Splitting the record at a cutoff date shows whether a good past carried forward. https://filedtrades.pages.dev/blog/why-raw-trade-disclosure-data-needs-cleaning/ https://filedtrades.pages.dev/blog/why-raw-trade-disclosure-data-needs-cleaning/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Filed Trades methodology data-quality insiders Duplicate rows, doubled tickers and stripped decimals are all real problems in scraped insider and Congress trade feeds. Here is what we found and how we...