S&P 500 7,650.50 +0.17%
Nasdaq 26,522.55 +0.39%
S&P/TSX 35,806.65 −0.19%
Apple 336.13 −0.26%
Nvidia 222.27 +1.34%
Microsoft 493.78 −0.80%
Shopify 179.34 −0.37%
Royal Bank 284.45 −0.17%
CAD/USD 0.7149 +0.02%
CLOSED · 02:55 ET
Market ClerkRecap
Sun Sep 20 · markets closed2 signals on Sep 19263 insider buys this week · $115.4MCIRO short report next: Sep 29The week ahead

Standings

DAY 26 OF THE EXPERIMENTMARKED AT CLOSE · SEP 20, 2026AVG PTS VS INDEX

Market Clerk logs stock calls from insiders, Congress, TV pundits, an AI and one human, then marks every one against the S&P 500 or the S&P/TSX each night. Zero is the index. Losses stay up.

Our signals
Cluster buys, self-scored
+2.5
353 fired · 107 of 262 beating
The Bot
Claude, one pick a week
−1.8
3 calls · 2 of 3 beating
Congress
Copy-trade, 15 members ranked
−0.4
best: Cleo Fields +14.2
The Pundits
BNN + CNBC, 5 tracked
−3.4
41 picks · 13 of 41 beating
The Human
Adam, operator's lens
−11.4
1 call · 0 of 1 beating
The Index
S&P 500 · S&P/TSX
0.0
the bar everyone clears or doesn't

Every number is a real call, logged at the close on the day it was made and marked against its market's index every night since. Losses stay up. Nothing is deleted.

Every callHow we score
USSECTORS · TODAY
Tech−0.4%−$2.8BFinancials−0.2%−$1.1BHealth+0.7%−$604.1MDiscretionary−0.8%−$70.4MIndustrials+0.4%+$324.6MComms−2.6%−$58.9MStaples−0.2%−$45.6MEnergy−2.0%−$3.8BMaterials−1.4%−$14.6MUtilities−0.4%−$67.2MReal Estate+0.2%+$9.5M
TSXSECTORS · TODAY
Tech+0.2%−$4.4MFinancials+0.4%−$85.6MHealth−0.5%−$1.4MDiscretionary−0.7%−$14.4MIndustrials−0.8%−$6.8MComms−3.2%−$99MEnergy−0.7%−$80.7MMaterials+0.2%−$31.9MUtilities−0.0%−$4MReal Estate−0.7%

Today

2 SIGNALS
EVENT
INM filed an 8-K: Delisting notice
EVENT
TELA filed an 8-K: Delisting notice
Every day, with the outcome

Everyone we score

AVG PTS VS INDEX · ZERO IS THE MARKET
Cleo Fields Congress, copy-trade15+14.2Rebecca Teltscher Portfolio Manager6+3.0Our cluster-buy signal self-scored262+2.5Jim Cramer Host17−1.1The Bot Claude3−1.8Chris Blumas Portfolio Manager3−6.0Barry Schwartz President & CIO12−6.3Markwayne Mullin Congress, copy-trade15−10.1Adam the human1−11.4
Every call, plus 95 members of Congress and the funds we copy-trade

Insiders bought

7 DAYS
TickerWho boughtValue
FOXExecutive Chair, CEO$10.3M
CRBG10% owner$7.4M
CV10% owner$5M
AXIA3Director$2.7M
GIIICEO$1.1M
263 buys this week, $115.4M

Congress disclosed

LATEST
TickerMember and tradeAmount
PGDavid Taylor, buy · 9d late$1K–$15K
IBPDavid Taylor, buy · 9d late$1K–$15K
PEPScott Scott Franklin, buy · 22d late$1K–$15K
PEPScott Scott Franklin, buy · 22d late$1K–$15K
NVOScott Scott Franklin, buy · 22d late$1K–$15K
Every disclosure, with the lag shown

Shorts moved

FINRA AUG 31
TickerCompanyChange in shares short
BLLYF80 MILE PLC SHS (United …+87.1M
CNQCanadian Natural Resourc…+55.5M
SANBanco Santander S.A., covering−55.3M
HNTGFHENGTEN NETWORKS GROUP L…, covering−54.5M
XIACFXiaomi Corp Common Shares, covering−53.3M
Most-shorted and biggest moves, US and Canada
THE TIME MACHINE
$10,000 of NVDA in 2016 is $2,835,077 today.
Pick any ticker and any year back to 1990. Real closes, compared with just buying the index. Nothing hardcoded.

The operator's lens

ALL ANALYSIS
FILINGS · 10-K ITEM 1A · SEP 2026
Apple rewrote a third of its risk factors. Here is what moved.
Two annual reports, 314 sentences each, and only one in three survived untouched. Tariffs, a new line on AI training data, and a quieter word about where the iPhone gets built.
EXPLAINER · OPERATOR LENS · SEP 2026
Stock buybacks: rocket fuel or smoke machine?
US companies spend around a trillion dollars a year buying their own shares. Sometimes that compounds your ownership; sometimes it launders stock-based compensation. How to tell which one you own.

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