Political Alpha - Real-time congressional and parliamentary trading intelligence across 18 countries

Political Alpha ingests every disclosed stock, bond, and ETF trade from politicians across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, European Parliament, India, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, and New Zealand. Each trade is scored for signal strength, clustered with related trades, and analysed for alpha decay between trade date and disclosure date.

Coverage

• United States - Congress and Senate under the STOCK Act
• United Kingdom - House of Commons and House of Lords
• Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands
• European Parliament
• India, Japan, South Korea
• Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, New Zealand

Analytical Features

• Per-trade signal score weighting politician history, committee fit, size, and timing
• Cluster detection across politicians, parties, and sectors
• Trade-versus-disclosure alpha decay - measures information advantage of late filings
• Sector heatmap - aggregate net flow by GICS sector across all politicians
• Ticker heatmap - net buying versus selling pressure per ticker
• Compliance leaderboard - punctuality of disclosure across politicians
• Performance analytics - 30/60/90/180-day forward returns by politician, party, chamber
• Per-politician profile pages with full trade history

Frequently Asked Questions

How does the signal score work?

Each politician trade receives a 0-100 signal score that weights the politician's historical forward-return performance, committee assignments relevant to the traded sector or ticker, position size, conviction (cluster of trades versus single isolated trade), and timing of the disclosure relative to the trade date.

What is alpha decay?

Alpha decay measures how much of the alpha in a politician's trade is captured before the public disclosure. If a politician buys a stock and discloses 45 days later, alpha decay quantifies the return realised between trade date and disclosure date - the alpha the politician captured exclusively because of the late filing. Political Alpha tracks this for every trade.

What is the compliance view?

The compliance view ranks politicians by their disclosure punctuality. Late filings are statutorily prohibited but the penalties are small. The compliance view flags repeat late filers, the cumulative days late across all their trades, and trade-versus-disclosure alpha decay - so you can identify politicians whose late filings produce the largest information advantage.