NelsonIQ is the only platform that cross-references 16 independent intelligence layers on every congressional stock trade. We don't just show you what they bought — we show you why they bought it, who helped them hide it, and whether smart money agrees.
Join Free on Discord →Members of Congress have up to 45 days to disclose their stock trades. During that window, they profit from information you cannot see.
Congress can wait up to 45 days to reveal a trade. By then, the stock has already moved. The filing penalty? $200. The profit? Often six figures.
The most active congressional traders route the majority of transactions through spouses, children, or family trusts — making trades harder to trace back to them.
Every other platform shows you the same STOCK Act filing and stops. One layer of data. No context. No connections. No score. Just a stale filing.
Most platforms scan filings and stop. We go 15 layers deeper. Every trade gets scored 0–100 based on how many independent signals converge.
When a lawmaker buys stock in a company their own committee regulates, funds, or investigates — they are trading in their own backyard. We flag every one automatically.
Smart lawmakers don't trade in their own name. They use a spouse, a child, or a family trust. We score how often each lawmaker hides behind proxies.
Three lawmakers from different parties buying the same stock in the same month is not a coincidence. They're reading the same briefings. We detect every cluster.
When a CEO and a senator both buy the same stock within days of each other — two people with different information sources reached the same conviction.
Call volume spikes to 4x normal on the same day a lawmaker files a purchase? Someone else knew too. We flag every unusual spike that coincides with a congressional trade.
A lawmaker's former staffer now lobbies for the company whose stock the lawmaker just bought. We track every former staffer turned lobbyist and connect them back.
Vote YES on restricting an industry, then buy stock in that industry. We compare every roll-call vote against every trade and flag the contradictions.
We measure how much each lawmaker profits between trade date and public filing. Some consistently capture 3–5% before anyone else can act. We track who they are.
Chiefs of staff and senior counsels attend the same briefings — and they trade too. When a staffer and their boss buy the same stock the same week, the signal strengthens.
A company PAC donates to a lawmaker. Weeks later, that lawmaker buys the stock. We cross-reference FEC records with trading activity and flag when the money flows match.
A lawmaker visits Taiwan, then buys semiconductor stocks three weeks later. We track where Congress travels and what they trade afterward.
A lawmaker sells a stock. Two weeks later, Hindenburg publishes a short report. Did they know? We check whether lawmakers exit before short attacks drop.
A $3B DoD contract gets awarded. The lawmaker on the funding committee already owned the stock. We connect USAspending.gov contract awards to congressional trades.
A company gets an accelerated patent grant. A lawmaker on the tech committee bought the stock a month earlier. We correlate USPTO activity with congressional trades.
For Tier 1 trades (score 85+), we auto-draft Freedom of Information requests to the relevant agency. We pursue what happened behind closed doors. No other platform does this.
[Lawmaker] → [Spouse Trust] → [Buys Stock] ← [Contractor] ← [Committee]. The full path from political power to market position in one visual chain.
Other platforms give you the filing. We give you the full picture.
| NelsonIQ $29/mo |
GovGreed $25–49/mo |
Unusual Whales $60/mo |
Capitol Trades Free |
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| Intelligence layers | 16 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| Family proxy detection | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Revolving door tracking | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hypocrisy engine | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| SEC insider synergy | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Staffer trading | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Alpha decay measurement | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| FOIA auto-filing | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Causal chain mapping | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Government contracts | ✓ | Partial | ✗ | ✗ |
| Options flow | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Campaign finance | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bill correlation | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
A lawmaker files a stock trade through the STOCK Act. The filing is buried in PDFs across two government websites. Most people never see it.
Our engine cross-references the trade against 16 data sources — committee seats, family proxies, insider buys, options flow, lobbying, contracts, and more. Each trade gets a conviction score.
High-conviction trades hit your Discord instantly. Full ticker, full reasoning, full causal chain. You see what Congress knows before the rest of the market catches up.
Every alert includes the lawmaker, the trade, the proxy type, the score, every triggered intelligence layer with plain-English explanation, the causal chain, and FOIA status.
This is what $29/mo looks like. Free users see this same structure — with the ticker and deep analysis locked.
These rates will never be available again once founding closes.
Start at $29. When Pro launches, founding members get early access and discounted upgrades. Your base rate never changes.
Join NelsonIQ free and see what 16 layers of intelligence look like. When you're ready for the full picture, founding member pricing is waiting.
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