congressional trading / open source / python / algorithmic trading
Congressional Trading Disclosures. Two Free Repos to Research Them.
Austin walks through two free GitHub repos. congressional-disclosures downloads House and Senate trading filings into a local database with npx congressional-disclosures@latest download --sqlite. nexustrade-py, installed with pip install nexustrade, can use those public disclosures as inputs next to technical, fundamental, economic, and other alternative data. The recording also shows financial research and walk-forward analysis.
Filings are delayed. A test has to use the date a disclosure became public, not the date of the trade. No brokerage order is placed in the recording.
Transcript
0:00Did you know that if you go through this GitHub repo here called Congressional Disclosures, you can download all the different disclosures from members of Congress that basically say what stocks they're buying and selling?
0:20Not only that, but if you go to this repo here, you can use those disclosures as indicators to a fully automated trading platform by typing pip install nexustrade.
0:36You can basically use this to create, test, and deploy fully automated trading strategies. It has tools that lets you do financial research, walk-forward analysis,
0:51And you can use those disclosures within your strategies as well as technical indicators, fundamental indicators, economic indicators, and other alternative data sources.
1:06Comment NexusTrade below and I'll send you a link to these two free open source GitHub repositories.
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