Michael Garcia’s disclosed stock trades — and what copying them returned
Michael Garcia (House) has disclosed 19 stock trades under the STOCK Act, from Jun 17, 2020 to Jun 20, 2023 — 5 buys and 14 sells, read straight from the official filings. The median gap between a trade and the public finding out was 14 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 Michael Garcia’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 (Nov 24, 2020 – Aug 11, 2026). Fees on, position sizes equal — a filing never discloses the real amount, only a band.
| Copy-return, total | +129.6% |
|---|---|
| S&P 500 over the same window | +129.6% |
| Difference | -0.1% |
| Annualized over 5.7 years | +15.7% vs +15.7% — -0.0% a year against the index |
| Deepest fall along the way | -24.0% |
| Positions that closed ahead | 20% |
| Disclosed buys / actually copied | 5 / 5 |
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 Michael Garcia’s own return — the disclosure lag means a copier never got their entry price.
Most-traded tickers
TSLA (4) · BA (4) · FAS (4) · VXX (2) · GLD (1) · AMC (1) · TXT (1) · GME (1) · OIH (1)
Recent filings
The latest 19 disclosed trades, newest filing first. Both dates are shown because the gap between them is the whole story.
| Ticker | Type | Traded | Disclosed | Lag | Amount band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TSLA | Sell | Jun 12, 2023 | Jun 20, 2023 | 8d | $50,001 - $100,000 |
| GLD | Sell | Jun 8, 2023 | Jun 20, 2023 | 12d | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| TSLA | Partial sell | Jun 8, 2023 | Jun 20, 2023 | 12d | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| TSLA | Sell | Dec 20, 2022 | Jan 26, 2023 | 37d | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| TSLA | Buy | Sep 29, 2022 | Oct 25, 2022 | 26d | $50,001 - $100,000 |
| AMC | Sell | Aug 12, 2022 | Aug 23, 2022 | 11d | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| TXT | Partial sell | Jul 12, 2022 | Aug 23, 2022 | 42d | $50,001 - $100,000 |
| GME | Buy | Jun 21, 2021 | Jul 13, 2021 | 22d | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| VXX | Buy | Jul 12, 2021 | Jul 13, 2021 | 1d | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| VXX | Buy | Apr 12, 2021 | May 3, 2021 | 21d | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| BA | Sell | Nov 13, 2020 | Nov 23, 2020 | 10d | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| OIH | Sell | Nov 18, 2020 | Nov 23, 2020 | 5d | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| FAS | Partial sell | Nov 9, 2020 | Nov 23, 2020 | 14d | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| FAS | Buy | Jul 9, 2020 | Nov 23, 2020 | 137d | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| FAS | Sell | Nov 11, 2020 | Nov 23, 2020 | 12d | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| BA | Sell | Aug 10, 2020 | Nov 23, 2020 | 105d | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| FAS | Sell | Jun 3, 2020 | Jun 17, 2020 | 14d | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| BA | Sell | Jun 3, 2020 | Jun 17, 2020 | 14d | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| BA | Sell | Jun 5, 2020 | Jun 17, 2020 | 12d | $1,001 - $15,000 |
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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.