About Sheepleocrazy

Sheepleocrazy tracks the stock trades that members of the U.S. Congress disclose under the STOCK Act. It reads every Periodic Transaction Report filed with the Senate (since 2012) and the House (since 2015), turns them into one searchable list, and adds a few measures that are hard to see in the original reports: how late each trade was disclosed, how the stock did afterward compared with the S&P 500, and when several members traded the same stock at about the same time.

The name is a joke about following the flock. The site itself sticks to the record: it shows what members reported, links every trade to the original report, and never says or implies that a trade was improper.

Where the data comes from

• Senate: the Senate's public financial disclosure site, efdsearch.senate.gov, from 2012.
• House: the Clerk of the House's disclosure site, disclosures-clerk.house.gov, from 2015, when its index starts.
• Members: names, terms and committee assignments from the congress-legislators project.
• Prices: daily adjusted closes from Yahoo Finance, used only for the timing measures.

New reports are picked up twice a day, in the morning and the evening (Eastern time). The methodology explains how the reports are processed and where the data falls short.

Free, non-commercial, nonpartisan

There are no ads, no paywall, no accounts and no sponsors, and the data isn't sold. That's partly principle and partly the law: 5 U.S.C. §13107(c) forbids using these reports for commercial purposes. You can browse everything, download the trades as CSV from the trades page, or use the read-only API.

Sheepleocrazy is an independent project run by one person. It isn't affiliated with any party, campaign, government office or company, and it treats every member the same way.

Use of AI

Some Senate reports are scanned paper forms rather than electronic filings. Their text is read with the help of an AI model (xAI's Grok), and a person checks every trade before it appears. The same model suggests ticker symbols for asset names that don't match one, and drafts the short summaries on some member and stock pages. A person approves each suggestion and summary, and summaries are labelled as AI-assisted. AI never adds a trade on its own.

Privacy

The site counts page views per day, per page and per referring site (for example "Google" or "X"), to see which pages people find useful. It sets no cookies for visitors, keeps no IP addresses or browser details, and has no ads or third-party trackers.

Contact and corrections

Found a mistake, or have a question about the data? Email info@sheepleocrazy.com or send a message to @sheepleocrazy on X. A link to the page in question helps.

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