Members of Congress have to report their stock trades, and their spouses' trades, on a periodic transaction report within 45 days. The reports are public, but they are PDFs on two different websites, every amount is a range rather than a number, and by the time a trade is filed the price has often moved. That's why "what is Congress buying?" is easy to ask and hard to answer well.
With Equibles connected to ChatGPT or Claude, you can ask in plain English and get every disclosed trade with its dates, amount range and instrument. This guide walks through six prompts, worked through on Nancy Pelosi's disclosures and one stock her husband bought this summer, Bloom Energy. Every answer below is real tool output from November 9, 2026.
Before you start
Connect the Equibles MCP server to your assistant once: ChatGPT setup or Claude setup. After that, the assistant picks the right tool on its own; you never type a tool name.
1. What has Congress been trading this month?
Which stocks did members of Congress buy and sell most in trades disclosed over the last 30 days?
The assistant calls GetMarketWideCongressionalActivity, which adds up every member's disclosed trades by stock. Each trade counts at the midpoint of its amount range, and the window runs on the filing date, not the trade date:
- 113 stocks were traded in reports filed in the 30 days to November 9.
- Selling led. Costco had the most net selling, about $558,000 from two members, followed by Apple at about $375,000 and Microsoft at about $367,000.
- Buying was small. The largest net purchases were about $75,000 each of Datadog and Estée Lauder, both by one member.
- One name runs through the sell side. Representative Pete Sessions is among the sellers in all five of the top selling rows.
The full ranking is on the Congress trading leaderboard. A month of disclosures can be quiet or dominated by one member's portfolio, so look at who is behind each row before reading it as a trend.
2. Look up one member
Show me every stock trade Nancy Pelosi has disclosed in the last year.
SearchCongressMembers finds the member's exact name, and GetMemberTrades returns the trades:
- 25 trades in the 12 months to November 9: 18 purchases and 7 sales.
- All 25 are in her husband's name. The Owner column says "Spouse" on every row; members must report a spouse's trades as well as their own.
- 9 of the 25 are options, marked OP in the Asset Type column, against 15 in stock (ST).
- Each was filed 7 to 30 days after the trade.
Her full record is on Nancy Pelosi's trading page.
3. Read one disclosure properly
What exactly did the Pelosi household buy in Bloom Energy, when, and when was it filed?
GetCongressionalTrades for Bloom Energy shows four purchases:
- July 24, 2026: stock, $1,000,001 to $5,000,000, and options, $1,000,001 to $5,000,000.
- July 28, 2026: stock, $500,001 to $1,000,000, and options, $500,001 to $1,000,000.
- All four were filed on August 21, 28 and 24 days after the trades.
The ranges are as specific as the law requires, but the report itself often says more. The House Clerk's PDF (filing 20035143) describes each line: 10,000 shares plus 100 call options with a $100 strike expiring June 17, 2027 on July 24, then 5,000 shares plus another 100 of the same calls on July 28. When a position matters to you, open the filing.
4. Who else in Congress traded it?
Has any other member of Congress traded Bloom Energy this year?
The same tool lists every member's trades in the stock. Only one other: Representative Gilbert Cisneros bought between $1,001 and $15,000 of Bloom shares on January 30. Bloom's trades are on its congressional trades page.
5. What would following the trade have earned?
What did Bloom Energy close at on the trade dates, on the filing date, at its peak since then, and now?
GetStockPrices gives the daily closes:
- $184.89 on July 24 and $166.84 on July 28, the trade dates.
- $201.45 on August 21, the day the report was filed: 9.0% and 20.7% above the two trade-date closes.
- $295.78 at the highest close since then, on October 6.
- $173.24 on November 6, the latest close: 6.3% below the July 24 close, 3.8% above July 28, and 14.0% below the filing-day close.
Do this step before copying any trade. Anyone acting on the report could only buy from August 21, at a higher price than the household paid, and a buyer who held to November 6 was down 14%. The gap between trade and filing is the first number to check on any congressional trade.
6. How rich is the member, really?
What net worth has Nancy Pelosi disclosed in her annual financial reports?
GetMemberNetWorth reads the annual reports, where assets and liabilities are also disclosed as ranges:
- 2025 report (filed May 15, 2026): between -$66.6 million and $351.2 million.
- 2024: between -$2.0 million and $377.4 million.
The minimum is negative because it adds up the bottom of every asset range and subtracts the top of every liability range. The true figure is somewhere inside a band hundreds of millions of dollars wide, which is why any single "net worth" number for a member is an estimate. The ranking is on the richest members page.
Put it together in one prompt
Show me what members of Congress traded most in disclosures from the last 30 days. Then, for Nancy Pelosi, list her last year of trades with trade and filing dates, owner and instrument, pick her largest purchase, show its stock's closing price on the trade date, the filing date and today, and list any other member who traded the same stock this year.
To go further, ask which members trade options most, or which stocks have more than three members buying in the same quarter.
How to check what the assistant tells you
- Every amount is a range. Read "$1,000,001 to $5,000,000" as exactly that, and treat any dollar total built from ranges as a midpoint estimate.
- Look at the Owner column. Spouse, dependent child and joint trades are all reported by the member.
- Compare the trade date with the filing date before you think about copying a trade. The price you can get is the one after the filing.
- Open the original report for anything you would act on: the House Clerk and the Senate's disclosure site publish every filing, and the description line often gives share counts and option terms.
The same six prompts work for any senator or representative: swap the name. Add Equibles to ChatGPT or Claude to follow congressional trades yourself.
This guide is for education, not investment advice. Figures are as of November 9, 2026.