Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi (US House, D-CA) is one of the most-followed political stock-trade disclosures under the 2012 STOCK Act, which requires Members of Congress to report individual stock trades within 45 days. Her trade pattern - and her husband Paul Pelosi's broader investing activity, which is filed under her PTRs (Periodic Transaction Reports) - has produced consistently above-market returns over multiple years, sparking ongoing public debate about Congressional access to non-public information and prompting bipartisan calls for stricter trading bans.

The disclosed trades skew toward concentrated, large-position purchases in mega-cap tech (NVDA, GOOGL, AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, META, AVGO, PANW), often via deep in-the-money LEAPS call options that provide leveraged exposure. The use of options means the disclosed notional values overstate the actual dollar-at-risk versus the underlying-equivalent share count. Trade timing has at multiple instances preceded major positive moves in the underlying names by weeks - a pattern that has driven the rise of copy-trading services and ETFs (NANC the Subversive Unusual Whales Democratic ETF) tracking Congressional trades.

For retail traders, the Pelosi PTRs are most useful as a sentiment-and-timing signal in mega-cap tech. The trades are not predictive in a strict-information-edge sense - they correlate with macro AI-narrative cycles more than with company-specific information - but the consistency of mega-cap tech accumulation across multiple election cycles is a coherent signal worth incorporating. QuantAbundancia surfaces Pelosi's trades alongside other politicians via the autopilot_quiver collector, refreshed weekly.