POLITICIANS · COPY-TRADE BACKTEST

If You Copied Nancy Pelosi

Representative · Democrat · CA

Every position below enters at the close on the disclosure date, the first day this was public, never the underlying trade date. A politician can trade weeks before the STOCK Act filing makes it known; you couldn’t have copied the trade any sooner than that, so neither does this backtest.

See the disclosed trades this is built from

Copying 8 disclosed buys since Jan 23, equal-weighted, held to 2026-10-21

+8.9%

Copy-trade return · 8 positions

+8.0%

S&P 500, same windows

+0.9%

Vs. index

Positions

Ticker	Disclosed	Entry	Last	Return	Index, same window
GOOGL	Jan 23	Jan 23 @ $327.93	Oct 21 @ $334.76	+2.1%	+12.2%
AMZN	Jan 23	Jan 23 @ $239.16	Oct 21 @ $262.37	+9.7%	+12.2%
NVDA	Jan 23	Jan 23 @ $187.67	Oct 21 @ $221.97	+18.3%	+12.2%
TEM	Jan 23	Jan 23 @ $65.32	Oct 21 @ $67.76	+3.7%	+12.2%
VST	Jan 23	Jan 23 @ $160.12	Oct 21 @ $156.14	−2.5%	+12.2%
BE	Aug 21	Aug 21 @ $201.45	Oct 21 @ $238.53	+18.4%	+1.1%
BE	Aug 21	Aug 21 @ $201.45	Oct 21 @ $238.53	+18.4%	+1.1%
INTC	Aug 21	Aug 21 @ $90.07	Oct 21 @ $92.96	+3.2%	+1.1%

How to read this

Entry is the close on (or the next trading day after) the disclosure date, never the underlying trade date, the whole point is honesty about when the public could actually act.
Price return only, dividends are excluded on both sides (the backtest and the index), which understates total return, especially for dividend payers.
Equal-weighted: every disclosed buy counts the same regardless of the actual dollar size of the trade or position.
Buys only, disclosed sells are not mirrored or subtracted; this tracks "what if you bought and held," not the entity's actual net position over time.
Past performance isn't predictive of future results. Not investment advice.

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