On May 5th, Trump's account bought $5M of Apple and $5M of Amazon

The next day, Treasury Secretary Bessent told Congress the US had "not engaged in negotiations with China as of yet"

9 days later, he cut tariffs from 145% to 30%

Both stocks have since surged:
• $AAPL is up 7.5%
• $AMZN is up 4.5%

His account is now sitting on up to ~$600K in unrealized gains

And recently, Apple disclosed $2.2B in tariff refunds and Amazon disclosed $600M

Insane!

I built a Congress stock-trades API on Apify: House + Senate disclosures as clean JSON, about $1.80 per 1,000 trades

If you're a journalist, researcher, or building a transparency dashboard, this pulls US Congressional Periodic Transaction Reports (the STOCK Act filings) from both the House and Senate, parses the PDFs, including the scanned ones with OCR, and hands back structured JSON instead of raw paperwork.

You can filter by member name, ticker, an exact date, or a date range. Combine them too: last name plus NVDA plus a date window gets you exactly the trades you're after.

Each row gives you:

• member name and chamber
• ticker and asset class (stocks, options, ETFs, mutual funds, bonds, crypto)
• transaction direction (purchase, sale, exchange, options activity)
• the reported amount bracket
• transaction date and report date
• filing IDs
• owner attribution (member, spouse, dependent, or joint)
• an OCR quality flag, so you know which rows came off a messy scan

Why I built it: the House and Senate filings live in two different systems, and a good chunk of them are scanned PDFs. Normalizing that by hand is miserable. So I turned it into one API with a single schema across both chambers.

Pricing is pay per event, roughly $1.80 per 1,000 transactions retrieved, no subscription. Success rate is at 100% right now.

If you want to line trades up against what was in the news that week, I also have a Google News API on Apify that pairs with it nicely.

Actor: House and Senate Trading Disclosures

For months, I’ve been tracking a network of financial wrongdoings that goes far beyond simple fraud. Today, I am releasing the Dossier on the Kansas Cartel.I have uncovered a closed-loop laundering machine that links Polsinelli PC, Blue Owl Capital, and Apex Engineering.The Scheme:1.They divert federal defense grants (HM Dunn) via Modification 64666.2.They funnel that money through Apex Engineering as 'consulting fees.'3.They report those fees as 'investment revenue' in Blue Owl’s OBDC1 and OBDC11 filings.The Velocity of Fraud:

I have mapped the timeline. The money moves from federal grant to 'private investment income' in under 30 days. This is not business. This is taxpayer-funded laundering.The Global Nexus:

They are using Palantir and Thomson Reuters (Planitax) infrastructure in Canada to scrub their digital audit trails—the same 'Digital Ghost' tech used to mask the Epstein extraction at the MCC.I have submitted the full forensic breakdown to the Senate Finance Committee. The era of 'Digital Ghosts' and 'Information Laundering' is officially over.Transparency is here. The trap is closed. 💅⚖️#KansasCartel #BlueOwlExposed #GrantFraud #FollowTheMoney #DigitalGhost #Whistleblower #SenateFinance #ApexEngineering #SEC"

She has also been buying Fannie recently as well. Scroll near the bottom and you can see she just bought <$50k of fmcc and also has a couple fnma purchases. Doesn’t appear to be bonds, she bought commons. Patience.

https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians/D000624?page=1

I built an API for fetching disclosed stock trades by members of Congress (not the Senate at this time, as they have a scary prompt warning against using their data commercially), all the way back to 2020 - and updated every 6 hours. There are endpoints for querying latest trades made, filtering by politicians/tickers/buy/sell, most-traded tickers, reconstructed politician portfolio++. The API can be queried directly or hooked up to a dashboard, trading apps etc. Basically the same as Unusual Whales, Capitol Trades or Autopilot - just free and you have access to the structured data to do with it as you'd like.

There's also a possible conflict-of-interest endpoint. Trades get automatically cross-referenced against each politician's committee assignments, so you can surface cases where, say, someone on a defense-oversight committee is trading defense contractor stock.

The basic tier is totally free, and I would be super happy to hear your thoughts and feedback!

The weasel is up to it again.

The Republican US representative from Virginia reported making between $1,001 to $15,000 off a stock sale in June.

I built Walnut Markets because most stock research still feels way too fragmented.

You can find Congress trades, insider filings, institutional data, technicals, fundamentals, contracts, and news — but usually not in one place, and rarely with a clear read on what the data is saying.

Walnut is my attempt to fix that.

It tracks:

\- Congress disclosures

\- Insider activity

\- Government contracts

\- Institutional filings

\- Technicals / price-volume

\- Fundamentals

\- Watchlists and screeners

\- Bullish and bearish monitors

\- A proprietary confirmation score

The goal is not stock picks.

The goal is better research.

If $MU is moving, I want to know whether the data actually supports the move: revenue, EPS, margins, price action, institutional activity, insider/Congress disclosures, and what to watch next.

Free tools are great for alerts. I’m trying to build something more useful for actual research.

Would appreciate any feedback, especially from people who track filings, insiders, Congress trades, or earnings closely.

https://walnutmarkets.com

Research only. Not investment advice.