Guide
Why the President isn't tracked here
A fair question we get a lot: what about the President, the Vice President, and Cabinet members — can we see their trades too? The honest answer is that they live under a different rulebook, one that doesn't produce the trade-by-trade record this site is built on.
Two different disclosure regimes
Members of Congress file under the STOCK Act, which requires them to report each individual securities transaction — a buy or sell, with a date and a dollar range — within 45 days. That steady stream of individual transactions is what this platform ingests, scores, and puts on a timeline.
The President, Vice President, and executive-branch appointees file with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) instead, on a form called the OGE Form 278. That's an annual snapshot of what someone owns — not a running log of individual trades.
A snapshot, not a transaction feed
The practical difference is everything. A STOCK Act filing tells you "bought Apple on March 3rd, $15k–$50k." An OGE 278 tells you "at year-end, held between $1M and $5M in fund Y." There are no individual buy/sell events with dates to track, score, or chart — so the analysis this site is built around simply can't be applied to it.
And obtaining those reports is manual: they aren't published as a data feed, but requested one at a time (via OGE Form 201) and delivered as documents, not machine-readable data.
The President is a special case
There's a further wrinkle: the President and Vice President are legally exempt from the conflict-of-interest rules that bind other officials. And in practice, many presidents don't hold an active portfolio of individual stocks at all — their wealth often sits in real estate, private businesses, or a blind trust, rather than a tradable stock portfolio you could follow. So even the annual snapshot frequently shows little in the way of stock activity to watch.
Our position
This platform is about Congressional trading — the one branch that produces a genuine, trackable transaction record. We'd rather be clear about that scope than stretch it to cover data that doesn't fit and pretend it's the same thing. If the executive branch ever moves to STOCK-Act-style transaction reporting, we'll be first in line to add it.
Curious about a specific appointee's annual disclosure? The OGE publishes them at oge.gov. And if you want to understand the record we can track, start with how to read a congressional trade disclosure.
Frequently asked
Can I see the President's or Cabinet's stock trades on this site?
No. The executive branch files annual OGE Form 278 disclosures — a once-a-year snapshot of holdings — rather than the individual, dated transaction reports that the STOCK Act requires of Congress. Without trade-by-trade events there is nothing to track, score or chart, so this site covers Congress only.
Why is Congress tracked but not the President?
They disclose under different laws. Congress reports each transaction within 45 days under the STOCK Act; the President, Vice President and appointees file annual snapshots with the Office of Government Ethics. Only the first produces the running transaction record this platform is built on.
Where can I find executive-branch financial disclosures?
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics publishes them at oge.gov. They are annual holdings snapshots and are often requested one at a time as documents, not released as a machine-readable data feed.