Morgan McGarvey’s disclosed stock trades — and what copying them returned

Morgan McGarvey (House) has disclosed 23 stock trades under the STOCK Act, from Mar 23, 2023 to Dec 10, 20249 buys and 14 sells, read straight from the official filings. The median gap between a trade and the public finding out was 27 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 Morgan McGarvey’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 (Mar 24, 2023Aug 11, 2026). Fees on, position sizes equal — a filing never discloses the real amount, only a band.

Copy-return, total+106.7%
S&P 500 over the same window+103.0%
Difference+3.7%
Annualized over 3.4 years+23.9% vs +23.3% +0.7% a year against the index
Deepest fall along the way-19.1%
Positions that closed ahead78%
Disclosed buys / actually copied9 / 9

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

Most-traded tickers

NVDA (6) · DJT (2) · IBKR (2) · AMZN (2) · TSLA (2) · SCHW (2) · AAPL (2) · DAL (2) · SHEL (1) · MSFT (1)

Recent filings

The latest 23 disclosed trades, newest filing first. Both dates are shown because the gap between them is the whole story.

TickerTypeTradedDisclosedLagAmount band
DJTSellNov 8, 2024Dec 10, 202432d$1,001 - $15,000
IBKRSellNov 13, 2024Dec 10, 202427d$1,001 - $15,000
AMZNSellNov 13, 2024Dec 10, 202427d$1,001 - $15,000
NVDASellNov 13, 2024Dec 10, 202427d$15,001 - $50,000
TSLASellNov 13, 2024Dec 10, 202427d$1,001 - $15,000
DJTBuyNov 6, 2024Dec 10, 202434d$1,001 - $15,000
SHELSellNov 13, 2024Dec 10, 202427d$1,001 - $15,000
NVDASellNov 13, 2024Dec 10, 202427d$1,001 - $15,000
NVDASellNov 13, 2024Dec 10, 202427d$1,001 - $15,000
MSFTSellNov 13, 2024Dec 10, 202427d$1,001 - $15,000
SCHWSellNov 13, 2024Dec 10, 202427d$1,001 - $15,000
TSLABuyOct 25, 2024Nov 13, 202419d$1,001 - $15,000
AAPLBuyAug 13, 2024Sep 25, 202443d$1,001 - $15,000
AAPLSellAug 19, 2024Sep 25, 202437d$1,001 - $15,000
DALSellJul 23, 2024Sep 3, 202442d$1,001 - $15,000
NVDABuyMay 31, 2024Jul 3, 202433d$1,001 - $15,000
DALBuyJun 28, 2024Jul 3, 20245d$1,001 - $15,000
IBKRBuyJun 6, 2024Jul 3, 202427d$1,001 - $15,000
SCHWBuyOct 5, 2023Nov 16, 202342d$1,001 - $15,000
TWLOSellAug 25, 2023Sep 26, 202332d$1,001 - $15,000
NVDABuyMar 7, 2023Apr 12, 202336d$1,001 - $15,000
AMZNBuyFeb 7, 2023Mar 23, 202344d$1,001 - $15,000
NVDASellFeb 28, 2023Mar 23, 202323d$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.