Congress Whale Copy Trading Bot
Point Claude at Capitol Trades, pick the top-performing US politician, and mirror their disclosed trades into an Alpaca paper account on a schedule.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
That's an interesting idea. To copy political trades, you'd need to connect to Capitol Trades first and pull the latest disclosures. You'd probably want to identify which politicians have the strongest recent track record. Then you could set up a script to monitor those trades and execute them in your Alpaca account. I'd be happy to help you think through each step — parsing the data, comparing against your brokerage, handling timing. Would you want equal weighting, or position sizing based on the original? How frequently should you check for new disclosures? Let me know your preferences and I can help sketch out the architecture.
SELECTED POLITICIAN: 18 disclosed trades past 4 months. Recent return 3.7% vs S&P 0.9%. Status: active trader, acceptable volatility profile. SCHEDULE CONFIGURED: Check Capitol Trades every 48 hours at 10:00 UTC. New buys execute as limit orders next trading day open. Sell signals execute at market same day. TRADE LOG (past month): Jun 18 — BUY 30 shares semiconductor ETF → executed Jun 19 09:30 at 47.22 Jun 28 — SELL 45 shares financials → executed Jun 28 15:45 at 52.11 Jul 5 — BUY 35 shares clean energy → executed Jul 6 09:50 at 63.48 BACKTEST RESULTS (trailing 12 months, 50K starting balance): Mirrored portfolio: 67,400 (+34.8%) S&P 500 benchmark: 61,050 (+22.1%) Outperformance: +12.7 points EXECUTION DETAILS: Brokerage: Alpaca paper account Trade size: 2% account per trade Excluded: penny stocks, volume below 1M shares daily Next sync: Jul 31 10:00 UTC Account status: ready to copy
About this skill
name: congress-whale-copy-trader description: Point Claude at Capitol Trades, pick the top-performing US politician, and mirror their disclosed trades into an Alpaca paper account on a schedule.
Congress Whale Copy Trading Bot
What This Does
The creator gives Claude access to an Alpaca paper account plus the Capitol Trades URL and tells it to find a politician with recent strong returns, then set a cron job that watches Capitol Trades and copies each disclosed buy or sell. He notes Michael McCaul was picked for high activity and shows a backtest that beats the S&P 500 by 2.2x.
What You Get
- Auto-picked politician with justification
- scheduled Capitol Trades scrape
- mirrored buys and sells in Alpaca paper account
- per-cycle trade log
- simulated return vs S&P benchmark
Customize
- brokerage_account: which Alpaca paper account to use
- politician_filter: only active traders with recent returns
- check_frequency: how often to poll Capitol Trades
- trade_size: dollar amount per copied trade
- exclude_tickers: any names to skip
Sample Output
Claude picks Michael McCaul, sets a schedule, and reports that copying his trades over the past year would have turned a 50K account into 67.4K vs 57.7K for the S&P.
Target Audience
US retail traders curious about congressional disclosure data
SKILL.md preview
---
name: congress-whale-copy-trader
description: Use when a user wants to monitor congressional stock trade disclosures for a chosen politician and mirror their disclosed trades into a paper trading account on a schedule.
version: 1.0.0
category: Trading
author: AgentVolt
license: proprietary
tags:
- trading
- standard
---
# Congress Whale Copy Trading Bot
Watches a disclosure source for a selected politician's trades and copies each disclosed buy or sell into a paper account, comparing results against a benchmark.
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