Susan A. Davis’s disclosed stock trades, and what copying them returned

DDemocrat · CA · House

Every trade Susan A. Davis has disclosed under the STOCK Act, read straight from the official filings.

34Disclosed trades
20Buys
14Sells
29dMedian disclosure lag

Jun 30, 2014 – Nov 30, 2020. You cannot trade when they traded, so every number below starts at the disclosure date, the earliest anyone could have copied it.

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

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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 Susan A. Davis compounded at +15.0% a year, against +13.6% a year for the S&P 500 over the same trades, 1.4 points a year ahead. Beat it with any strategy, on any ticker.

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Most-traded tickers

FTNT (4) · VSAT (3) · EA (3) · SCHW (3) · QCOM (3) · FB (2) · EXC (2) · VSM (2) · HCP (2) · KR (2)

Susan A. Davis

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Disclosures
34
Buys
20
Sells
14
Last filing
Nov 30, 2020
Copying every disclosed buy, 1–20% per trade by their own conviction, idle cash in SPY
Return/yrvs S&P/yrCopiedYears
Copying the filings+15.0%+1.4%16/2012.2
What they got+15.0%+1.4%16/2012.2
Worst fall 36.0% · win rate 94%. 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
FTNTBuySP$1,001 - $15,000Oct 28, 2020Nov 30, 202033d
VSATBuySP$1,001 - $15,000Oct 28, 2020Nov 30, 202033d
FBuySP$15,001 - $50,000Oct 28, 2020Nov 30, 202033d
VSATBuySP$1,001 - $15,000Apr 15, 2020May 14, 202029d
FBBuySelf$15,001 - $50,000Mar 16, 2020Apr 16, 202031d
FTNTBuySP$15,001 - $50,000Mar 16, 2020Apr 16, 202031d
EXCBuySP$1,001 - $15,000Mar 16, 2020Apr 16, 202031d
FTNTPartial sellSP$15,001 - $50,000Feb 11, 2020Mar 13, 202031d
VSATBuySP$15,001 - $50,000Feb 11, 2020Mar 13, 202031d
EASellSP$15,001 - $50,000Mar 8, 2019Apr 9, 201932d
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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.