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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

Source

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lH5wrfNwL3k