Here’s the dashboard tracking trading by U.S. Senators.
Senate Stock trading vs. S&P 500
A while back I did a little write-up on which politicians I actually think browse this sub, I’ll copy that below:
Honorable Mention: Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (VA-10)
Comstock lost her 2018 re-election bid and I don't necessarily think she is a WSBer (she doesn't trade nearly as many meme stocks as the other guys on this list) but I do blame her for turning off the ATM that was 2016-2018 $MU.
She bought \~$75,000 worth of Micron Technology stock on 6/25/18, just days before the first stretch in years when the stock wasn't literally printing money. MU lost half its value in the next 6 months, and still hasn't recovered to the price she purchased it at.
#5. Rep. Alan Lowenthal (CA-47)
Favorite meme stocks: SPCE, GLD
Lowenthal is actually one of the more successful traders on this list, having gotten in to $GLD in September of 2019. He also timed his exit from $SPCE pretty well, selling about half of his position right at the mid-February peak.
If I had to guess, I'd say Lowenthal just lurks the sub looking for opportunities to inverse WSB.
#4. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5)
Favorite meme stocks: SNAP, TSLA, GE, NVDA, LULU, AMD
The Josh Gottheimer story is a story of perseverance and diamond hands. I'm pretty sure this guy read some DD on here that said SNAP was going to moon after its IPO, because he bought into the stock just days after it went public. He caught the falling knife right on its tip as his position lost 75% of its value over the next couple years. A lesser man would have cut the loss, but Gottheimer just kept buying up more $SNAP even as it was losing him money. Those of you who have an eye on the markets (perhaps a minority) will know that his grit and determination was rewarded handsomely in the last couple months.
#3. Sen. Pat Roberts (Kansas)
Favorite meme stocks: TSLA, GLD, BYND, NVDA, GE
Pat Roberts is another guy that I think just comes here to inverse the sub. Roberts made an impeccably well-timed TSLA play a few months ago when he bought in on August 3rd, just a few days before the August run-up began and then sold on September 1st, just before the early September drop.
Insider trading or inversing WSB? You decide.
WSB must be big in Kansas, because the next guy up is the fellow who was just elected to fill the vacancy being left by Roberts upcoming departure from the senate.
#2. Rep. Roger Marshall (KS-1)
Favorite meme stocks: JNUG, TSLA, SNAP, MU, ROKU, AMD, NVDA, LULU
Marshall got a big promotion to the Senate a few days ago, and if that didn't work out he probably would have switched to day-trading full time. He was already day-trading JNUG within a few months of entering office, buying and then selling thousands of dollars worth of the stock between market open and close.
What Marshall really lacks is patience, as he recently entered then prematurely exited a position in ROKU in mid-September, missing out on big gains in the weeks to follow.
#1 Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (Rhode Island)
Favorite meme stocks: GME, TSLA, GE, NVDA
The story of Sheldon Whitehouse is not a happy story, but it's a story that might be told of many a member of this community. He had the right ideas, but just did not have strong enough hands to see them through.
On July 28, 2017, Whitehouse entered a position in $TSLA. Seeing a modest 3% gain through the month of August, he doubled down on his position on August 24th, 2017.
Although he soon began to lose money as $TSLA sank, in Elon he still trusted, and he bought more $TSLA yet again in December of 2018.
Sadly for Whitehouse, we now reach the heartbreaking part of the story. Seeing a 30% los