Glossary
Members of Congress can trade options the same way they trade stocks. PTRs include strike + expiration but not exact contract quantities.
Members of Congress are not restricted from trading equity options under the STOCK Act. Periodic Transaction Reports (PTRs) for options include the underlying ticker, the option type (call or put), the strike price, and the expiration date — but the AMOUNT field uses the same bracket system as stock trades, which under-represents the leverage.
A $50,001–$100,000 call option position with a strike well above current price could be a 10-bagger if the stock rallies, or zero if it expires worthless. The same bracket on a stock represents a much smaller potential return distribution.
Nancy Pelosi is the most-tracked example: she has historically used long-dated deep-in-the-money call options on individual technology names (NVDA, GOOGL, MSFT), which behave like leveraged stock positions. Her portfolio CAGR is materially boosted by this leverage.
Disclosed Capitol parses option strike + expiration from every PTR and tags options trades distinctly. A separate options-only filter is available at /trades?asset_type=Option.