Alan Lowenthal’s disclosed stock trades — and what copying them returned

Alan Lowenthal (House) has disclosed 631 stock trades under the STOCK Act, from Jun 6, 2012 to Dec 21, 2022290 buys and 336 sells, read straight from the official filings. The median gap between a trade and the public finding out was 10 days — which is why every number below starts at the disclosure date, the earliest day anyone could actually have copied a trade.

What copying every disclosed buy would have returned

Our engine bought at the first opening price after each of Alan Lowenthal’s disclosed purchases became public, held until the matching sale was disclosed, and marked the book against simply holding the S&P 500 over the same window (Jan 13, 2014Aug 11, 2026). Fees on, position sizes equal — a filing never discloses the real amount, only a band.

Copy-return, total+450.8%
S&P 500 over the same window+423.9%
Difference+26.8%
Annualized over 12.6 years+14.5% vs +14.1% +0.5% a year against the index
Deepest fall along the way-28.6%
Positions that closed ahead65%
Disclosed buys / actually copied290 / 233

Read the fill count before the return: a figure built on a handful of copied positions is an anecdote, whatever it says. And a copy-return is not Alan Lowenthal’s own return — the disclosure lag means a copier never got their entry price.

Most-traded tickers

ADSK (18) · SH (17) · PSQ (13) · ATVI (12) · VSLR (12) · CHTR (12) · ECL (11) · BSX (11) · SCI (11) · AMZN (11)

Recent filings

The latest 50 disclosed trades, newest filing first. Both dates are shown because the gap between them is the whole story.

TickerTypeTradedDisclosedLagAmount band
CRMSellDec 8, 2022Dec 21, 202213d$1,001 - $15,000
ATVIBuyDec 12, 2022Dec 21, 20229d$1,001 - $15,000
GTLSBuyDec 9, 2022Dec 21, 202212d$1,001 - $15,000
GTLSBuyDec 9, 2022Dec 21, 202212d$15,001 - $50,000
ATVIBuyDec 12, 2022Dec 21, 20229d$1,001 - $15,000
CRMSellDec 8, 2022Dec 21, 202213d$1,001 - $15,000
ATVIBuyDec 14, 2022Dec 21, 20227d$1,001 - $15,000
BXPartial sellNov 14, 2022Nov 23, 20229d$1,001 - $15,000
TJXSellNov 4, 2022Nov 23, 202219d$1,001 - $15,000
TMUSPartial sellNov 4, 2022Nov 23, 202219d$1,001 - $15,000
BXPartial sellNov 14, 2022Nov 23, 20229d$1,001 - $15,000
TJXSellNov 4, 2022Nov 23, 202219d$15,001 - $50,000
ECLSellNov 3, 2022Nov 12, 20229d$1,001 - $15,000
TMUSPartial sellNov 3, 2022Nov 12, 20229d$1,001 - $15,000
ECLSellNov 3, 2022Nov 12, 20229d$1,001 - $15,000
TMUSPartial sellNov 3, 2022Nov 12, 20229d$1,001 - $15,000
BSXSellOct 24, 2022Nov 5, 202212d$1,001 - $15,000
BSXPartial sellOct 21, 2022Oct 29, 20228d$1,001 - $15,000
BSXPartial sellOct 21, 2022Oct 29, 20228d$1,001 - $15,000
CCKSellOct 21, 2022Oct 29, 20228d$15,001 - $50,000
SCIBuySep 27, 2022Oct 14, 202217d$1,001 - $15,000
SCIBuySep 23, 2022Oct 8, 202215d$1,001 - $15,000
SCIBuySep 22, 2022Oct 1, 20229d$1,001 - $15,000
CRMBuySep 22, 2022Oct 1, 20229d$1,001 - $15,000
SCIBuySep 23, 2022Oct 1, 20228d$1,001 - $15,000
SCIBuySep 26, 2022Oct 1, 20225d$1,001 - $15,000
CCKBuyAug 10, 2022Sep 3, 202224d$1,001 - $15,000
ZTSBuyAug 26, 2022Sep 3, 20228d$15,001 - $50,000
MDTPartial sellJul 29, 2022Aug 7, 20229d$1,001 - $15,000
MDTPartial sellJul 28, 2022Aug 4, 20227d$1,001 - $15,000
SPGIBuyJul 19, 2022Jul 25, 20226d$1,001 - $15,000
ECLBuyJul 19, 2022Jul 25, 20226d$1,001 - $15,000
ECLBuyJul 20, 2022Jul 25, 20225d$1,001 - $15,000
UBERSellJun 29, 2022Jul 6, 20227d$1,001 - $15,000
IFFExchangeFeb 4, 2021Jun 24, 2022505d$1,001 - $15,000
GMSellAug 23, 2021Jun 24, 2022305d$15,001 - $50,000
IWNPartial sellJun 16, 2022Jun 19, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
VRSKBuyJun 16, 2022Jun 19, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
AMZNBuyJun 7, 2022Jun 19, 202212d$1,001 - $15,000
VRSKBuyJun 17, 2022Jun 19, 20222d$1,001 - $15,000
BABuyJun 15, 2022Jun 19, 20224d$1,001 - $15,000
SPGIPartial sellJun 1, 2022Jun 19, 202218d$1,001 - $15,000
BABuyJun 15, 2022Jun 19, 20224d$1,001 - $15,000
IWNSellJun 16, 2022Jun 19, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
JPMBuyMay 17, 2022May 22, 20225d$1,001 - $15,000
TMUSBuyMay 17, 2022May 22, 20225d$1,001 - $15,000
ICESellMay 6, 2022May 21, 202215d$15,001 - $50,000
ICEPartial sellMay 5, 2022May 21, 202216d$1,001 - $15,000
IFFSellApr 7, 2022Apr 16, 20229d$1,001 - $15,000
IFFPartial sellApr 5, 2022Apr 12, 20227d$1,001 - $15,000

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See plans All members and how the ranking works

Entries are at the first open AFTER the disclosure date — the earliest any copier could act. The member's own entry was up to 45 days earlier. Disclosed amounts are bands, not sizes; every position is sized at your chosen % of portfolio, which is not how the member sized it. Option purchases are copied as the underlying shares. A filing discloses no strike and no expiry, so an option cannot be mirrored — buying the stock is the closest a reader could get. It is 1.6% of all disclosed buys, but for some members it is a quarter to a half of everything they file, so their figure describes copying the filing rather than what the position itself did. Dividends are treated as reinvested (adjusted closes). Fees and taxes are not modeled. Positions are sized from equity at the time of each entry, so gains compound into later position sizes and most of the account sits in cash between filings. Read the drawdown next to the exposure figures: a portfolio that is mostly cash shows a small whole-portfolio drawdown even when its holdings fell hard. Absolute returns are model outputs, not achievable returns. Past disclosures are no promise of future filings — members stop trading, leave office, or file late in batches.