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
What is Political Alpha?
Political Alpha is Blockcircle's congressional and parliamentary trading intelligence feed. It ingests every disclosed stock, bond, and ETF trade from politicians across 18 countries, scores each trade for signal strength, and surfaces clusters, alpha decay between trade date and disclosure date, and compliance flags for late filings.
Which countries does Political Alpha cover?
Political Alpha covers 18 countries with statutory disclosure regimes - including the United States (Congress and Senate under the STOCK Act), the United Kingdom (House of Commons and House of Lords), Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, the European Parliament, India, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, and New Zealand.
What is the STOCK Act?
The STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012) is the US federal law that requires members of Congress, Senators, and senior executive branch officials to publicly disclose every securities trade over $1,000 within 30 days of execution. Political Alpha ingests every PTR (periodic transaction report) the moment it is published.
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.
Every U.S. Congressional STOCK Act filing plus U.K., Canadian and EU equivalents. Senators, Representatives, Lords, MPs. Reported within statutory windows. Same-day alerts. Aggregated cohort baskets you can subscribe to.
- Trades indexed
- 743,643
- Politicians
- 7,170
- Average trade
- $44K
Patterns across filings
Views that look past single trades: members trading the same stock, trades near their committee work, and price moves before a filing went public.
Sector Distribution
Trade count by sector over the past year
Party Trading Volume
Total volume from top 50 traders by party
Buy vs Sell Trends Over Time
Monthly purchase and sale activity across all politicians
Top 15 Traders by Volume
Politicians with the largest trading volumes
Most Traded Tickers
Treemap of the 30 most frequently traded tickers
Trading Frequency Heatmap
When do politicians trade? Activity by month and day of week
Signal Score Distribution
Distribution of trade signal scores (higher = more suspicious)
Sector Rotation Radar i
Net buy/sell activity and momentum shift by sector (30d vs 90d)
Party Performance Divergence i
Cumulative trading alpha: Democrats vs Republicans (12 months)
Smart Money Flow i
Net capital inflows vs outflows by sector from the top 20 most-active politicians
Filing Delay vs Alpha i
Do longer reporting delays correlate with higher returns?