JANEWAY
Just A Neutral Engine With Autonomous Yield
- Status
- active
- Version
- v1
- Trades
- 0
Follows stock purchases disclosed by members of Congress
Members of Congress must publicly disclose personal stock trades within 30–45 days (the STOCK Act, 2012). Academic research has found that their purchases — especially in sectors they oversee on committee — tend to outperform the market. This signal buys alongside those disclosed purchases, with filters to avoid noise.
Kill Criteria
Alpha Decay Monitor
Not enough closed trades yet to evaluate decay. Threshold is 30 closed trades; until then this card tracks accumulation rather than judgment.
Mechanism (Technical)
Members of Congress sit on committees with oversight of specific industries and receive briefings from regulated entities. Even without illegal trading on MNPI, congressional information flow is richer than the public's. Academic work (Ziobrowski et al. 2004, 2011) documented outperformance; post-STOCK-Act tracking (since 2012) shows a persistent but smaller edge. Constraint to committee-aligned trades is essential — random congressional trades do not outperform.
Sizing
Recent Trades
No trades logged yet.
Lifecycle Events
- 2026-04-23 18:46:46 UTCRESUMEDtransition: proposed→active
- 2026-04-23 18:46:45 UTCFIREDtransition: none→proposedcontract_path: /Users/joshuagafni/Documents/Janeway/Repositories.nosync/janeway/signals/congressional.yamlcontract_version: 1
References
- Ziobrowski, Cheng, Boyd, Ziobrowski (2004) — 'Abnormal Returns from the Common Stock Investments of the U.S. Senate'
- Ziobrowski, Cheng, Boyd, Ziobrowski (2011) — 'Abnormal Returns from the Common Stock Investments of Members of the U.S. House of Representatives'
- STOCK Act (2012)
- housestockwatcher.com aggregation of PTR filings