The Most Active Stock Traders in Congress
Members of Congress are not a monolith of buy-and-hold investors. A small group accounts for a strikingly large share of all the trading activity disclosed under the STOCK Act, the 2012 law that requires senators and representatives to report their securities transactions within 45 days.
Coldpine parses every one of those filings. Ranked below are the ten most active traders in Congress by number of disclosed transactions. These are behavioral rankings, how often a member or their household trades, not a measure of how well those trades performed.
Every figure comes from public STOCK Act filings, parsed and counted by Coldpine. “Trades” is the number of disclosed transactions. “Volume” sums the midpoint of each trade’s disclosed dollar range (filings report ranges, not exact amounts). Activity is not performance: a high trade count says nothing about returns.
| # | Member | Trades | Volume | Most traded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rohit Khanna House · CA · D | 12,617 | $224.7M | XSP |
| 2 | Michael T. McCaul House · TX · R | 4,129 | $417.4M | VTI |
| 3 | Josh Gottheimer House · NJ · D | 896 | $123.6M | MSFT |
| 4 | Alan Armstrong Senate · OK · R | 703 | $25.0M | AAPL |
| 5 | Richard Blumenthal Senate · CT · D | 488 | $49.5M | TKNO |
| 6 | Byron Donalds House · FL · R | 391 | $3.3M | WAT |
| 7 | Kevin Hern House · OK · R | 355 | $51.5M | HD |
| 8 | April McClain Delaney House · MD · D | 346 | $3.4M | TSCO |
| 9 | Marjorie Taylor Greene House · GA · R | 331 | $7.8M | UPS |
| 10 | Jared Moskowitz House · FL · D | 322 | $3.2M | SHW |
What the data shows
Rohit Khanna sits at the top of the list, with 12,617 disclosed transactions. The name they trade most is XSP. The spread between the most and least active members on this list is wide, which is the real story: Congressional trading is concentrated in a handful of frequent traders, while most members trade rarely or not at all.
Volume of trading does not tell you whether a member is good at it. For that, Coldpine scores every disclosed trade and tracks each member’s realized return against the S&P 500. That is a different list, and a far smaller one.
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Coldpine is a publisher of intelligence on public Congressional disclosures. This is informational only, not investment advice, and not a suggestion to buy, sell, or copy anyone’s trades. Figures are sourced from public STOCK Act filings and update as new disclosures are parsed.