Christopher Jacobs’s disclosed stock trades — and what copying them returned

Christopher Jacobs (House) has disclosed 221 stock trades under the STOCK Act, from Nov 6, 2020 to Jan 20, 2023108 buys and 111 sells, read straight from the official filings. The median gap between a trade and the public finding out was 39 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 Christopher Jacobs’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 (Feb 11, 2021Aug 11, 2026). Fees on, position sizes equal — a filing never discloses the real amount, only a band.

Copy-return, total+104.1%
S&P 500 over the same window+112.6%
Difference-8.5%
Annualized over 5.5 years+13.9% vs +14.7% -0.8% a year against the index
Deepest fall along the way-24.5%
Positions that closed ahead58%
Disclosed buys / actually copied108 / 69

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 Christopher Jacobs’s own return — the disclosure lag means a copier never got their entry price.

Most-traded tickers

HD (6) · SAVA (5) · TELL (5) · XOM (5) · CVX (5) · UEC (4) · DOC (4) · GEVO (4) · CIVI (4) · CDEV (4)

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
SWTXBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
PXDBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
KALVBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
INSW.VBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
HLXSellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
BRK.BBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
PCVXSellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
TSLAPartial sellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
PFEPartial sellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
NTSTBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
METASellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
KURABuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
HDPartial sellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
FHNBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
XPROSellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
CTRASellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
CMTGBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
CHRDBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
SAVABuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
ATHABuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
AVXLSellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
UECSellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
TELLBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
RLMDSellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
DOCBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
PRBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
NESRBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
KRYSBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
JPMPartial sellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
NOTVSellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
HPPartial sellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
GEVOBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
XOMSellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
CRGYSellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
COGTBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
CIVISellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
CVXPartial sellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
MNRLBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
BLFSSellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
BACSellDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
AROCBuyDec 12, 2022Jan 20, 202339d$1,001 - $15,000
SISellNov 8, 2022Dec 12, 202234d$1,001 - $15,000
HLXBuyNov 8, 2022Dec 12, 202234d$1,001 - $15,000
UECBuyNov 8, 2022Dec 12, 202234d$1,001 - $15,000
SBRASellNov 8, 2022Dec 12, 202234d$1,001 - $15,000
PLUGSellNov 8, 2022Dec 12, 202234d$1,001 - $15,000
OCGNSellNov 8, 2022Dec 12, 202234d$1,001 - $15,000
JPMBuyNov 8, 2022Dec 12, 202234d$1,001 - $15,000
HDPartial sellNov 8, 2022Dec 12, 202234d$1,001 - $15,000
GEVOSellNov 8, 2022Dec 12, 202234d$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.