Methodology

Congress trades

House Clerk periodic transaction reports (disclosures-clerk.house.gov: annual FD index + each e-filed PTR PDF) and Senate eFD (efdsearch.senate.gov); party/state from the bundled roster and unitedstates/congress-legislators

Fetched 2026-10-28 · window: filed 2025-10-28 to 2026-10-28

Scope: stock trades filed since 2026-08-29 for every member, plus up to 40 older trades for each of the 15 members with official portraits and up to 20 for the 10 busiest other traders (25+ trades in the window); no-ticker rows and exchanges left out

Insider trades (Form 4)

SEC EDGAR Form 4 (data.sec.gov submissions + filing XML); open-market purchases (code P) and sales (code S) only, one row per filing per direction

Fetched 2026-10-28 · window: filed 2025-10-28 to 2026-10-28

Scope: 15 executives with verified headshots (newest filings each) plus the 5 busiest other individual filers with 8+ open-market rows (newest 3 each): Javier Olivan, Douglas J. Herrington, Jennifer Newstead, Alexander D. Moore, Christian Kleinerman

Fund holdings (13F)

SEC EDGAR 13F-HR information tables (latest two quarters per manager); options (put/call rows) excluded

Fetched 2026-10-28

Scope: the 5 funds with manager photos plus the largest other managers by 13F value, 7 funds; top 15 holdings, 6 largest new and sold-out positions each

5% stakes (13D/13G)

SEC EDGAR full-text search (efts.sec.gov) for initial SCHEDULE 13D / 13G filings, last 60 days; per form the largest listed companies by SEC ticker-list order; 5% or more only; percent and shares from each filing's primary_doc.xml

Fetched 2026-10-28 · window: filed 2026-08-29 to 2026-10-28

Scope: design pass: newest 12

Executive orders

Federal Register API (federalregister.gov), presidential documents of type executive order

Fetched 2026-10-28

Scope: design pass: newest 10

Headlines

Yahoo Finance headline RSS per ticker (https://feeds.finance.yahoo.com/rss/2.0/headline?s=<T>); each item links its publisher; 'read' is the feed's own description cut to one sentence

Fetched 2026-10-28 · window: published 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-28

Scope: design pass: newest 40, at most 6 per publisher and per ticker

Committees and sectors

Committee assignments: unitedstates/congress-legislators (committees-current + committee-membership-current, public domain), standing committees plus Intelligence and Ethics, for every member in congress.json. Sectors: GICS-style sector per ticker, hand-mapped for the tickers in prices.json; unmapped tickers are Other.

Fetched 2026-10-28

Prices

Yahoo Finance public chart endpoint (query1.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart), daily close, split-adjusted; Stooq CSV blocked by a browser check; per ticker from 45 days before its earliest row (at least 365 days, at most 548)

Through 2026-10-28

Known gaps

• Senate eFD unreachable from this network (HTTP Error 403: Forbidden); 62 Senate rows carried over from the last snapshot (congress.json).
• Amounts for congressional trades are the value ranges members report, not exact amounts.
• Committee to sector mapping is VolaIntel's own hand mapping.