{
  "id": 15828830,
  "title": "How to track congressional stock trades with Claude, and what the disclosures leave out",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/how-to-track-congressional-stock-trades-with-claude-and-what-the",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-21T01:17:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/daniel_oliveira_4bd55d35d/how-to-track-congressional-stock-trades-with-claude-and-what-the-disclosures-leave-out-3p4"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "To track congressional stock trades using Claude, first connect Claude to the Equibles MCP server. In a chat, open Customize → Connectors → Discover, search for Equibles, click Connect to Claude and Authorize, then switch it on. Use Claude Code to add the connector and sign in with /mcp.\n\nTo determine what Congress has been buying, ask Claude: \"Using Equibles, which stocks did members of Congress buy most in trades disclosed over the last 90 days?\" The agent will call GetMarketWideCongressionalActivity with days=90, providing the ticker, buyers, trades, and estimated net flow. Remember, the flow is an estimate and members disclose ranges, not exact amounts.\n\nNext, to find out who in Congress trades a specific stock, ask Claude: \"For one ticker, GetCongressionalTrades lists every disclosed trade. Snowflake (SNOW) over the last year: Trade Filed Member Type Range Account...\" The agent will return all disclosed trades for the stock, including the filing date, amount range, asset type, owner, and account. Note the lag between the trade date and filing date, as it can be up to a month.\n\nFinally, to understand what a member trades, ask Claude: \"Using Equibles: 1. List the stocks Congress bought most in disclosures from the last 90 days. 2. For the top 3, show every underlying trade with trade date, filing date, amount range, asset type, owner and account. 3. Add the days between trade and filing, flag options and spouse accounts, and say how many members are behind each row.\" Claude will provide a detailed breakdown of the top stocks, including the number of members involved in each trade, the asset type, and whether it's an option or spouse account. Remember, the disclosure does not provide exact amounts, rationale, or investment advice.",
  "summary": "All outputs are real tool calls to the Equibles MCP server from 21 October 2026, trimmed. Every congressional trading tracker shows the same table: who bought what. The table is the easy part. The hard part is reading it: when the trade happened versus when it was disclosed, how much money a \"$1,001 to $15,000\" row really is, and whether a row is stock at all. Here is how I ask an AI agent those…",
  "key_points": [
    "Connect Claude to Equibles MCP server for tracking congressional stock trades",
    "Ask Claude to identify most bought stocks by Congress in last 90 days",
    "Request Claude to list detailed trades for top 3 stocks, including filing dates and amount ranges"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Integrating the Equibles MCP server into Claude transforms fragmented congressional disclosures into searchable datasets, allowing users to identify trading patterns and the time lags inherent in public filings.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}