Invest like an insider.

Yes. Congressional trades are public record under the STOCK Act of 2012 — Congress publishes them precisely so the public can watch. Reading public filings and trading on what you read is legal for everyone. What members themselves may do with non-public information is Congress's problem, not yours.

Those apps mirror everything a politician does — good trades, bad trades, no exits, no risk control. This is a quantitative strategy that uses filings as its signal: each disclosed name is screened by rule, every exit is defined before the entry, and the portfolio moves to cash when nothing qualifies. In the backtest that discipline showed up as a −14% worst drawdown while the index itself fell −24.5%.

Straight from the public record: every filing members of Congress publish under the STOCK Act, through the House Clerk and the Senate's financial-disclosure office, parsed as it posts. Every row carries two dates — when they traded, and when the public found out.

Sometimes — 45 days is the legal maximum, and plenty of filings arrive within a week. The strategy is built for that reality: it trades on publication, holds positions for weeks rather than days, and the entire backtested record assumes exactly that lag. These are position changes by people with multi-year information horizons, not day trades.

They're backtested — and we'd rather tell you that in the FAQ than in a footnote. The figures come from applying the strategy's rules to historical data (QuantConnect, Jan 2022 – Jul 2026), not from a live account. Backtests are built with hindsight, exclude fees, and can't capture the strategy's own market impact. What they show is how the rules would have behaved — including holding cash through the 2022 bear.

The filings are free — the job isn't. Two government websites, scanned PDFs, amounts in ranges, no alerts. And reading them only gets you entries: you'd still have to decide which names qualify, how much to buy, and when to get out. The selection and exit rules are the part you can't copy off a government website.

In your own brokerage account, in your name. Follow the Hill never takes custody and never pools funds — the strategy's trades are mirrored into your account, and you can switch it off whenever you want.

You get a full year to decide. Tell us inside twelve months and every subscription dollar you paid comes back. To be precise about what that covers: it refunds our fees, not market losses. Nobody can guarantee an investment return, and we don't — what we guarantee is that you won't be stuck paying for something you don't want.

Follow the Hill is a paid subscription. We walk you through pricing before you commit to anything, there’s no lock-in — cancel whenever you want — and the 12-month money-back guarantee covers every dollar you pay us.

Real ones. The record is backtested, and live results will differ. The strategy is event-driven, so it depends on the continuing flow of disclosures — if filings dry up, it sits in cash rather than forcing trades. Monthly returns can deviate widely from the index in both directions, drawdowns still happen (−14% at the worst point of the backtest), and you can lose money. Never trade money you can't afford to lose.