The Politician Insider Trading Activity page provides details of trading activity by US Congressmen and Senators.
The page initially shows all insider trading recorded by politicians for the last 60 days. Politician have to disclose any securities trades within 45 days of the transaction.
Note: This page is updated twice daily with new transactions recorded for that day, at approximately 4am CT and 4pm CT.
The top of the page shows a chart, where all Buy and Sell transactions are shown with their dollar values plotted by date. You may select different transaction sizes, or view only the Buys or Sells by using the drop-down filters at the top of the chart.
In addition, clicking on any of the green or red bars for a specific date will show you a breakdown of the trades that make up the bar in a table under the chart.
The next two widgets break out the politicians with the highest number of total trades and the highest trade value (transaction total) for the past 60 days.
The table at the bottom of the page shows all trades for the last 60 days, with the option to select a different date range. Choose from Buy or Sell transactions only, and different transaction sizes. Range of dates are restricted to a 30-day time span. Barchart Members may view flipcharts of the symbols, download the data, and Barchart Premier Members may run a stock screener for the data presented in the table.
Also available is a "Search by Politician Name" button at the top right of the table. This allows you to search for a specific name in the database. Last Name is required; First Name is optional. If we find an exact match, the data will be displayed showing you data from one year ago through the current date. This data (by individual name) can be downloaded to a .csv file, or the symbols viewed via Flipcharts.
Transaction Types
A number of transaction types are broken out to describe the trade details.
- Buy: Discretionary purchase of shares. In almost all cases this will be at the prevailing market price, exceptions will be explained in the Notes.
- Sell: Sale of part or all of the Director beneficial Holding at the prevailing market price unless otherwise stated in the Notes.
- Exercise: Vesting of options which form part of the Director’s beneficial holding after the event. Unless in exceptional circumstances the exercise price is below the market price and may even be nil.
Note: Additional transaction types may be available for politicians, and can be found on the Insider Trading Activity page.
Data Updates
For pages showing Intraday views, we use the current session's data with new price data appear on the page as indicated by a "flash." Stocks: 15 minute delay (Cboe BZX data for U.S. equities is real-time), ET. Volume reflects consolidated markets. Futures and Forex: 10 or 15 minute delay, CT.
The list of symbols included on the page is updated every 10 minutes throughout the trading day. However, new stocks are not automatically added to or re-ranked on the page until the site performs its 10-minute update.
For reference, we include the date and timestamp of when the list was last updated at the top right of the page.
Page Sort
Pages are initially sorted in a specific order (depending on the data presented). You can re-sort the page by clicking on any of the column headings in the table.
Views
Most data tables can be analyzed using "Views." A View simply presents the symbols on the page with a different set of columns. Site members can also display the page using Custom Views.
Each View has a "Links" column on the far right to access a symbol's Quote Overview, Chart, Options Quotes (when available), Barchart Opinion, and Technical Analysis page. Standard Views found throughout the site include:
- Main View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Change, %Change, High, Low, Volume, and Time of Last Trade.
- Technical View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Today's Opinion, 14-Day Relative Strength, 20-Day Average Volume, 52-Week High, 52-Week % From High, 52-Week Low, and 52-Week % From Low.
- Performance View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Weighted Alpha, 5-Day %Change, 1-Month %Change, 3-Month %Change, 52-Week %Change, YTD %Change.
- Moving Averages View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, 20-Day Moving Average, % From 20-Day Moving Average, 50-Day Moving Average, % From 50-Day Moving Average, 100-Day Moving Average, % From 100-Day Moving Average, 200-Day Moving Average, % From 200-Day Moving Average.
- Fundamental View: Available only on equity pages, this view shows Symbol, Name, Market Cap, P/E Ratio (trailing 12 months). Earnings Per Share (trailing 12 months), Net Income (Annual), Beta, Dividend Forward (Annual), Dividend Yield Forward (Annual), and Latest Earnings Date.
Note: For all markets except U.S. equities, fundamental data is not licensed for downloading. Your .csv file will show "N/L" for "not licensed" when downloading from a Canadian, UK, Australian, or European stocks page. - Mini-Chart View: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view displays 12 small charts per page for the symbols shown in the data table. You may change the bar type and time frame for the Mini-Charts as you scroll through the page. The default settings for Mini-Charts are found in your Site Preferences, under "Overview Charts".
- Pre-Post Market View: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view will show any pre- or post-market price activity for U.S. equities only.
Learn more about Custom Views here.
View Symbol More Data (+)
Unique to Barchart.com, data tables contain an option that allows you to see more data for the symbol without leaving the page. Click the "+" icon in the first column (on the left) to view more data for the selected symbol. Scroll through widgets of the different content available for the symbol. Click on any of the widgets to go to the full page. The "More Data" widgets are also available from the Links column of the right side of the data table.
Flipcharts
Also unique to Barchart, Flipcharts allow you to scroll through all the symbols on the table in a chart view. While viewing Flipcharts, you can apply a custom chart template, further customizing the way you can analyze the symbols.
Flipcharts are a free tool available to Site Members. Learn more about it here.
Download
Download is a free tool available to Site Members. This tool will download a .csv file for the View being displayed. For dynamically-generated tables (such as a Stock or ETF Screener) where you see more than 1000 rows of data, the download will be limited to only the first 5000 records on the table. For other static pages (such as the Russell 3000 Components list) all rows will be downloaded.
Free members are limited to 1 site download per day. Barchart Plus Members have 10 downloads per day, while Barchart Premier Members may download up to 250 .csv files per day.
Note: Due to licensing restrictions, Canadian fundamental data cannot be downloaded from Barchart.com. You will see "N/L" in a downloaded column when this is the case. Fundamental data for US equities is also limited to 15 fields per download request.
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