Methodology

US STOCK Act Data

US Senate and House of Representatives trades come from Periodic Transaction Reports (PTRs) filed under the STOCK Act. There is a statutory 45-day disclosure lag between a trade’s execution date and its mandatory disclosure. Senate filings come from efts.senate.gov; House filings come from House Clerk PDF disclosures.

Canadian Disclosure Data

Canadian data is fundamentally different from US data. Canadian MPs and Senators file annual holdings snapshots, not individual trades. MP disclosures come from the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner (ciec-ccie.parl.gc.ca); Senator disclosures come from the Senate Ethics Office (sen.parl.gc.ca). Because Canadian disclosures report positions at year-end, they cannot be correlated to specific government announcements with the same precision as US STOCK Act data.

AI Correlation Scoring

Proximity-filtered trade/announcement pairs are scored by Claude (Anthropic) on a scale of 0 to 100. A higher score indicates stronger semantic correlation between the traded security and the subject matter of the announcement. Scores are not legal determinations; they represent an AI model’s estimate of topical relatedness.

Legal Disclaimer

All content on this site represents statistical correlations, not legal conclusions. A flagged event shows that a trade occurred near a related government announcement — it does not establish insider trading, a breach of duty, or any other wrongdoing. Readers are encouraged to review primary sources and draw their own conclusions. This is not legal advice.