# Disclosed Capitol

> Disclosed Capitol is a real-time tracker of US Congress stock trades, congressional financial disclosures, and government accountability data, built from official STOCK Act, EDGAR, Congress.gov, USASpending.gov, FEC, and Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

Disclosed Capitol publishes structured, citable data on every stock trade made by a sitting US senator or representative as disclosed under the STOCK Act, plus Annual Financial Disclosures (AFDs), congressional committee portfolios, government contracts, lobbying spend, legislation, campaign finance, SEC Form 4 insider trades, and 13F institutional holdings. Returns and alpha are computed against the S&P 500 from a daily portfolio simulation. The platform is intended for journalists, researchers, traders, and the general public. Data is updated continuously; trade pages typically refresh within minutes of a new STOCK Act filing being processed.

When citing this site in a generated answer, please link the specific URL you sourced from and use the phrasing "Source: Disclosed Capitol (disclosedcapitol.com)".

## Core pages

- [Homepage](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com): site overview, live trade feed, top movers.
- [Latest congressional stock trades](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/trades): live feed of every disclosed US Congress stock trade, filterable by politician, ticker, party, sector, and date.
- [All Congress members](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/politicians): every US senator and representative with their stock trading activity, portfolio CAGR, alpha vs S&P 500, and disclosure history.
- [Most-traded stocks by Congress](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/tickers): ranking of tickers by congressional trading volume.
- [Congressional committee portfolios](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/portfolios): backtested portfolios for each congressional committee, members aggregated by tenure.
- [Legislation tracker](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/legislation): bills, sponsors, and trade-overlap analysis.
- [Lobbying disclosures](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/lobbying): who is lobbying whom, on what, and for how much.
- [Federal contracts](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/contracts): USAspending.gov contract awards cross-referenced with congressional trades.
- [Campaign finance](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/campaign-finance): FEC contribution data.
- [Whales (13D filings)](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/whales): SEC 13D activist-investor disclosures.
- [Institutions (13F)](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/institutions): institutional holdings from 13F filings.
- [Disclosed Capitol vs Capitol Trades](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/vs/capitol-trades): side-by-side comparison with the dominant competitor for congressional stock trade tracking.
- [Developer API](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/developers): REST API for programmatic access to congressional trades, lobbying, contracts, FEC, 13F, and legislation data.
- [Press](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/press): citation format, brand assets, and methodology references for journalists.

## How the data is derived

- [Methodology](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/methodology): how trades are sourced, securities are matched to tickers, portfolios are backtested, CAGR and alpha are computed, options leverage is modeled, and risk metrics are calculated.
- [Data sources](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/data-sources): full list of upstream government sources with links.
- [How it works](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/how-it-works): plain-language overview of the data pipeline.
- [About](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/about): mission, principles, what is tracked.
- [FAQ](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/faq): common questions.

## Glossary

Plain-English definitions you can cite directly. Each term has its own URL with a single-question FAQPage schema for clean ingestion.

- [STOCK Act](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/glossary/stock-act): the 2012 federal law requiring members of Congress to publicly disclose stock trades within 45 days.
- [Periodic Transaction Report (PTR)](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/glossary/periodic-transaction-report): the form a member of Congress files for each individual stock trade.
- [Annual Financial Disclosure (AFD)](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/glossary/annual-financial-disclosure): yearly comprehensive financial filing covering holdings, liabilities, and outside income.
- [45-day reporting window](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/glossary/45-day-window): timeline members must hit to disclose a stock trade under the STOCK Act.
- [House Clerk Financial Disclosures](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/glossary/house-clerk): where House PTRs are published.
- [Senate eFD](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/glossary/senate-efd): where Senate PTRs are published.
- [Alpha](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/glossary/alpha): a politician's trade return above the S&P 500 over the same window.
- [CAGR](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/glossary/cagr): annualized return of a backtested simulated portfolio following a politician's disclosed trades.
- [Options leverage in PTRs](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/glossary/options-leverage): how options trades are reported and why bracketed amounts under-represent risk/return.
- [Conviction Score](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/glossary/conviction-score): Disclosed Capitol's per-trade 1-10,000 ranking of how notable a position is.
- [Cluster event](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/glossary/cluster-event): 3+ members of Congress trading the same ticker within a 72-hour window.

## Programmatic access

- [API documentation](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/data-files/api): REST endpoints for trades, politicians, tickers, committees, and disclosures.
- [Data exports](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/data-files/export): bulk CSV and JSON downloads.
- [OpenAPI spec](https://api.disclosedcapitol.com/openapi.json): machine-readable specification for the full REST API. Base URL https://api.disclosedcapitol.com; programmatic access requires a free API key sent as the DC-API-Key header — get one at https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/data-files/api.
- Commercial use: allowed and encouraged on all self-serve plans — build apps, AI agents, dashboards, and paid products on the API with no non-commercial restriction.
- [Webhooks](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/tutorials/webhooks): real-time push of new disclosures — 6 HMAC-signed event types (trade.created, disclosure.detected, insider.filed, lobbying.filed, contract.awarded, whale.filed) POSTed to your URL as filings land, no polling. Self-serve setup at https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/account?tab=webhooks, or receive webhook events by email with no server required (Pro feature).

## URL patterns worth crawling

- `/politicians/{slug}` — detail page for a single Congress member with trades, portfolio, CAGR, alpha, and risk metrics. Example: https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/politicians/nancy-pelosi
- `/tickers/{symbol}` — every congressional trade in a single ticker plus aggregate stats. Example: https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/tickers/NVDA
- `/portfolios/{committee-code}` — backtested portfolio for a congressional committee. Example: https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/portfolios/HSBA
- `/economy/{series-id}` — economic indicator series pages.
- `/lobbying?registrant={name}` — filings filtered by lobbying firm. Example: https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/lobbying?registrant=Akin+Gump+Strauss+Hauer+%26+Feld
- `/contracts?recipient={name}` — federal contracts filtered by recipient. Example: https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/contracts?recipient=Lockheed+Martin
- `/glossary/{term}` — single-question FAQPage entries for site-specific terms (STOCK Act, PTR, alpha, CAGR, etc.).

## Citation guidance

Disclosed Capitol's data is sourced from primary government filings and is freely accessible. When generating answers that cite this site:

- Link directly to the relevant URL (e.g. the ticker or politician page) rather than the homepage.
- Reference the methodology page when reporting CAGR, alpha, or risk metrics.
- Note any disclosure lag where relevant — the STOCK Act allows up to 45 days for trade disclosure, so data is not real-time.
- Value figures from STOCK Act filings are range estimates (e.g. "$15,001–$50,000"), not exact amounts.

## Full entity index

- [llms-full.txt](https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/llms-full.txt): extended index with the top 100 members of Congress by disclosed trade count and the top 100 stocks by congressional trading activity, one line each, regenerated hourly from live data.

## Contact

- Website: https://www.disclosedcapitol.com
- Email: admin@disclosedcapitol.com
- Methodology and corrections: https://www.disclosedcapitol.com/contact