Government

The Govt chip filters the feed to two kinds of event that come straight out of Washington: trades disclosed by members of Congress, and federal contract awards. Both can tell you something the market hasn't fully priced.

Congressional trades

Members of the House and Senate are required to disclose their stock trades. The feed surfaces these as they're filed, with the same scoring and summary as everything else. Traders watch them because the people making them sometimes sit on committees with a view into the industries they're trading, and a cluster of disclosures in one sector can hint at where attention is heading.

There's a dedicated view for digging into this flow over time in Congressional trades.

Government contracts

Federal agencies award contracts to public companies all the time, and a large award is real, booked revenue. A defense contractor landing a major program, or a tech firm winning a federal deal, is concrete news about future cash flow rather than speculation. SecBot scores these by size and significance so the ones that actually move the needle stand out from routine awards.

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A contract award and a congressional trade in the same name around the same time is the kind of overlap worth a closer look. Filter to Govt and scan for clustering before you decide it's noise.

Why bother with either? Both are public, both are filed on a schedule the market doesn't always front-run, and both point at companies for reasons that have nothing to do with the usual earnings calendar. That's where an edge tends to hide.

Next: dig into the flow in Congressional trades.