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Hillradar AI is a research tool that tracks the stock trades US senators and representatives are legally required to disclose under the STOCK Act. It turns tens of thousands of filings into a searchable database, politician and company profiles, performance track records, and AI Signals that highlight where several lawmakers are buying at the same time.

It is built for investors, journalists and researchers who want to follow "political smart money" without reading PDF filings by hand.

Click Create a free account on the sign-in page, enter your first name, last name, email and a password (8+ characters), accept the Terms and you are in. No credit card is needed for Free.

1. Open Home — the dashboard shows today's top AI signals, the latest filings and who is most active.
2. Open Invest Plan — see what following the signals would have been worth historically and run the profit calculator with your own numbers.
3. Add a stock or lawmaker to your watchlist in Settings and connect Telegram so you are told the moment a matching filing lands (Pro).

No. It works in any modern browser. If you want it on your home screen, the footer has one-tap Android, iPhone and Desktop install guides — it installs as an app (PWA) and keeps working offline with the last data you loaded.

From the official public disclosures members of Congress file with the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate (Periodic Transaction Reports), as collected in public-domain and openly licensed datasets built from those filings. We also use the official congress-legislators directory for names, parties, chambers, states and photos.

We do not scrape commercial trackers. Every trade can be traced back to an official filing.

Filings since 2014 — more than 57,000 transactions from 350+ current and former lawmakers, and growing every day.

The feed is refreshed several times a day. A trade normally shows up within hours of Congress publishing the filing. Keep in mind the law itself gives lawmakers up to 45 days to file after a trade, so the "Delay" column tells you how old a trade was when it became public — late filings (over 45 days) are marked in red.

Because that is how the law requires lawmakers to report them. Filings only state a band, never an exact dollar figure. Where we show a total "volume", it is an upper-bound estimate built from those bands and labelled as such.

Who holds the asset according to the filing: the member themselves, their spouse, a dependent child, or a joint account. All of them must be disclosed and all are included.

Lawmakers also report bonds, funds, private companies, crypto and other assets that have no stock ticker. We keep those trades (switch All assets on the dashboard) but they are excluded from stock-only statistics and signals.

For every disclosed buy we look at the stock's price 6 months after the trade date and compare it with the S&P 500 over the same window.

• Hit rate = share of a lawmaker's buys that beat the market.
• Excess return = average 6-month return minus the market's return.
• Track record on a profile combines both with the number of trades behind them — a 70% hit rate on 4 trades means little; on 150 trades it matters.

These are historical measurements, not forecasts.

Email info@hillradar.com with the lawmaker, date and ideally a link to the official filing. We review corrections within one business day. See the Disclaimer for known limitations of disclosure data.

A signal is a stock where the pattern of congressional buying looks unusually strong right now. For each ticker in the window (default 90 days) we score:

• how many different lawmakers bought it, and how recently;
• whether buyers come from both parties (bipartisan clusters have historically been more reliable);
• the track record of the people buying — a buy by someone with a 65% hit rate counts more than one by someone with 40%;
• how past congressional buys of that same stock have performed;
• sell-side pressure, which lowers the score.

The result is a score out of 100 with a confidence tier (high / medium / watch), the reasons in plain English and, when AI insight is enabled, a short thesis.

We take every disclosed stock buy since 2014 with a known 6-month outcome (about 21,500 trades) and compare four rules, equal-weighted and before costs:

The exact figures are recomputed from the live database and shown on the page itself.

No. It is a historical average with real caveats, which we print on the page: it applies today's track records to past trades (which flatters results), it ignores fees, taxes and the filing delay, and averages hide big winners and losers. Past performance never guarantees future results. Treat it as evidence that the approach has been worth studying, not as a promise.

You set a starting amount, a monthly contribution and a time horizon. The calculator compounds your money monthly at two historical rates — the market's and the smart-cluster rule's — and shows both paths side by side, plus the difference. It also shows how many months of that historical edge would cover the $497 / year Pro price at your numbers. It is a what-if tool, not a forecast.

It splits a chosen amount across the current buy signals, weighted by signal score, so you can see what a signal-following allocation would look like today. Free members see the #1 position; Pro members see all of them with the reasons and top buyers behind each.

No. Hillradar AI provides research and education about public records. We are not a broker or investment adviser, we do not know your situation, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Please read the Disclaimer and decide for yourself or with a licensed adviser.

$497 per year, billed annually in advance in US dollars. There is no monthly plan; one yearly price keeps the service independent of ads and data resale.

Click Upgrade to Pro anywhere in the app or email info@hillradar.com with your account email. We activate Pro on your account as soon as payment is confirmed; your plan badge in the header changes to PRO.

Yes — a full refund within 14 days of your first Pro payment, provided you have not exported data or received more than 10 alerts. After that, payments are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise. Details are in the Terms.

Email us before your renewal date. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep every Pro feature until the end of the year you paid for, then the account moves to Free — nothing is deleted.

Yes, for newsrooms, funds and research teams. Email info@hillradar.com with the number of seats and we will send a quote.

• Trade alerts — a lawmaker files a trade in a stock or a politician on your watchlist.
• Signal alerts — a new AI buy signal forms, or an existing one gets materially stronger (higher tier or more buyers).

You choose which of the two you want in Settings. Delivery is a Pro feature; Free members can set everything up in advance.

Settings → Alert channels → Connect Telegram. You get a one-time code and a link to our bot; send the code to the bot and the channel shows as connected within a few seconds. Use Send test to confirm.

Add your WhatsApp number (international format, e.g. +1…) or an alert email in Settings and save. WhatsApp requires the administrator to have enabled a WhatsApp provider on the server; if a channel says "not enabled on this server yet", email us.

1. Check that your plan is Pro — alerts are only delivered to Pro members.
2. Check the channel is connected and the alert type is ticked in Settings.
3. Use Send test; if the test arrives, the earlier filing simply did not match your watchlist.
4. Alerts are only sent for filings published in the last 30 days, so historical imports never flood you.

Free: 1 stock or lawmaker. Pro: unlimited.

Android (Chrome): tap Android in the footer, or Chrome menu → Install app.
iPhone (Safari): tap the Share button → Add to Home Screen.
Desktop (Chrome / Edge): click the install icon in the address bar or Desktop in the footer.

Installed, it opens full-screen with its own icon like any native app and updates itself automatically.

Yes, for reading. Pages and the data you have already opened are kept on the device, so Home, Trades, profiles and signals you looked at still open on a plane or in the subway, with an "offline" bar at the top. Searching new data, saving settings and alerts need a connection and resume automatically when you are back online.

The installable web app is the official app on all platforms today and gets every feature first. Store listings may follow; installing from the footer gives you the same experience now without waiting for store approval.

Current versions of Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox and Samsung Internet on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux. The interface adapts from a 4-inch phone to a 4K monitor.

A faster way to sign in on your own devices: email + a 4-digit PIN instead of your full password. Set or change it in Settings (your current password is required). Your password keeps working, and the PIN locks for 15 minutes after 5 wrong attempts. Do not use a PIN on shared computers.

If you set a PIN, sign in with email + PIN and set a new password in Settings. Otherwise email info@hillradar.com from your account address and we will send a reset.

Settings → Account. Changing the email or password asks for your current password as a safety check. Changes apply immediately.

Passwords and PINs are stored only as salted hashes, all traffic is encrypted with HTTPS, sign-in sessions use signed tokens that expire, and alert credentials are stored masked. We collect the minimum needed to run the service and never sell personal data — see the Privacy Policy.

Email info@hillradar.com from your account address. We delete the account, watchlist and alert channels within 30 days and confirm by email.

Hillradar AI is operated by Hillradar AI. The Terms are governed by the laws of the United States of America. Full details, including dispute resolution, are in the Terms & Conditions.

Yes. The STOCK Act of 2012 requires these disclosures precisely so the public can see them. We republish public records, add analysis, and never access any private information.

No. Hillradar AI is an independent service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any government body, political party or lawmaker. Photos come from the official public congressional image repository.

Yes, with attribution to Hillradar AI and a link. Bulk redistribution or reselling of the database is not permitted; Pro members may export CSV for their own analysis. For commercial data licensing, email us.