E. Scott Rigell’s disclosed stock trades, and what copying them returned

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Every trade E. Scott Rigell has disclosed under the STOCK Act, read straight from the official filings.

32Disclosed trades
24Buys
8Sells
49dMedian disclosure lag

Jun 16, 2015 – Jan 25, 2017. You cannot trade when they traded, so every number below starts at the disclosure date, the earliest anyone could have copied it.

Before you scroll: did copying E. Scott Rigell actually beat the S&P 500?

Buying at the first open after each filing went public, the earliest a copier could act.

Run it yourself

The figures above copy every disclosed buy, sized between 1% and 20% of the account by how big that filing was for them. Change the rules and see what happens.

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Copying E. Scott Rigell compounded at +12.9% a year, against +14.0% a year for the S&P 500 over the same trades, 1.1 points a year behind. Beat it with any strategy, on any ticker.

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Most-traded tickers

GDXJ (3) · GDX (3) · VZ (3) · PEP (2) · JNJ (2) · BP (2) · F (2) · MRK (2) · D (2) · CMI (2)

E. Scott Rigell

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Disclosures
32
Buys
24
Sells
8
Last filing
Jan 25, 2017
Copying every disclosed buy, 1–20% per trade by their own conviction, idle cash in SPY
Return/yrvs S&P/yrCopiedYears
Copying the filings+12.9%-1.1%22/2411.3
What they got+13.4%-0.5%23/2411.3
Worst fall 33.7% · win rate 59%. Both rows use the same 1% sizing and buy at the day’s open, only the entry date differs. Their real position sizes are never disclosed, only bands, so “what they got” is their timing, not their account.
The latest 10 disclosed trades, newest filing first, amounts are the statutory bands, not exact sizes
TickerSideOwnerAmountTradedDisclosedLag
VBuySelf$15,001 - $50,000Dec 7, 2016Jan 25, 201749d
PEPBuySelf$15,001 - $50,000Dec 15, 2016Jan 25, 201741d
JNJBuySelf$15,001 - $50,000Dec 15, 2016Jan 25, 201741d
BPBuyDC$15,001 - $50,000Dec 7, 2016Jan 25, 201749d
QQQBuySelf$15,001 - $50,000Dec 5, 2016Jan 25, 201751d
BPSellSelf$15,001 - $50,000Dec 14, 2016Jan 25, 201742d
GDXJSellSelf$50,001 - $100,000Nov 23, 2016Dec 23, 201630d
QCPSellSelf$1,001 - $15,000Nov 8, 2016Dec 23, 201645d
JPMBuySelf$15,001 - $50,000Nov 22, 2016Dec 23, 201631d
GDXSellSelf$15,001 - $50,000Nov 23, 2016Dec 23, 201630d
22 earlier filings , the full history, sorting, backtests and the CSV export are part of Pulse.See plans

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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. Conviction sizing reads only where a band RANKS against the member's own earlier filings (a bigger-than-usual one takes a bigger slice of your portfolio, up to the ceiling you chose), so the run follows how hard they went in relative to themselves, never the dollars they actually committed or what those dollars were to them. 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 only part of the account is in the member's positions at any time, the rest tracking the S&P 500. Read the drawdown next to the exposure figures: a portfolio holding only part of its equity in those positions 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.