Congress Trading Monitor

What it is A dashboard that tracks every stock trade disclosed by members of the U.S. Congress and senior executive-branch officials, cross-references it against real market prices, and runs two autonomous, AI-driven paper-trading engines that act on those signals — one on Trading 212 (stocks), one on Capital.com (leveraged CFDs on metals, oil, FX, and Nasdaq 100).

Components & how it works

Frontend — React (Vite) SPA styled with Tailwind CSS on top of a re-skinned GOV.UK Frontend component set (tables, tags, summary lists, breadcrumbs) for dense financial data; a custom "kit" library adds the buttons, nav bar, and data tables. Dark "terminal" theme by default, with a light mode toggle driven entirely by CSS custom properties.

Data pipeline — server-side scrapers (houseScraper.js, senateScraper.js) pull disclosures directly from the Clerk of the House, the Office of Government Ethics, and the Senate's eFD system, normalize them, and pre-render static per-filer and per-ticker JSON that the SPA fetches on demand.

Market data — Yahoo Finance and Financial Modeling Prep feed live prices, used to compute each disclosed trade's return and excess return vs. SPY from trade date to today.

AI decision layer — a thin proxy (server/ai.js) forwards prompts to the Anthropic Messages API; the model reasons over each disclosure plus live chart data to produce BUY/SELL/HOLD decisions with written rationale, which a human can review before (or instead of) letting the engine execute automatically.

Trading engines — two independent, mutually-exclusive loops (autoTradeLoop.js for Trading 212 stocks, capitalcomTradeLoop.js for Capital.com CFDs), each with its own risk sizing, stop-loss/take-profit tiers, trailing stops, and daily/weekly circuit breakers; both trade on demo/paper accounts only.

Everything else — a command palette (⌘K) for fast navigation, a follow/watchlist system for specific filers or tickers, and a chat page that lets you ask the AI questions directly over the underlying dataset.