What if you had copied Pete Sessions?
Republican, TX-17
The verdict
Copying Pete Sessions's reported trades from Jun 2023 would have turned $10,000 into $36,745, more than the S&P 500 did.
The S&P 500 turned the same $10,000 into $18,425 over the same days. The copy returned +47.7% a year against +20.1% for the S&P 500, 28 points a year ahead. Its worst fall was 21.8%, from Jan 23, 2025 to Apr 8, 2025. The S&P 500's worst fall over the test was 18.8%.
Copied Jun 27, 2023 to Oct 28, 2026 · House trade reports and daily closes
What $10,000 became
- Copying Pete Sessions$36,745
- S&P 500$18,425
- Kept every buy and ignored their sales$31,291
If you had kept every buy and ignored their sales, you would have ended at $31,291, so following every move earned $5,454 more. The test stops on Oct 28, 2026, when everything copied had been sold, so there was nothing left to follow.
- $10,000 copied
- $36,745
- +267.5%, +47.7% a year
- In the S&P 500
- $18,425
- +84.2%, +20.1% a year
- Kept every buy
- $31,291
- Their sales ignored
- Worst fall
- −21.8%
- Jan 23, 2025 to Apr 8, 2025
- Trades
- 24
- 16 buys, 8 sales
The moves that made the most
- NVDANVIDIA+$19,782
Held from Jun 2023 to Oct 2026, the stock up 350%
- MSFTMicrosoft+$3,174
Held from Sep 2023 to Oct 2026, the stock up 49%
- COSTCostco Wholesale+$1,761
Held from Mar 2024 to Oct 2026, the stock up 33%
- VVisa+$1,679
Held from Mar 2024 to Oct 2026, the stock up 46%
Held from Jul 2023 to Nov 2023, the stock up 4%
- AAPLApple+$167
Held from Mar 2024 to Sep 2026, the stock up 90%
The moves that cost the most
No position lost money for the copy.
Year by year
| Year | Copy | S&P 500 | Gap, pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023from Jun 2023 | +26.5% | +9.8% | +16.7 |
| 2024 | +111.0% | +24.9% | +86.1 |
| 2025 | +20.9% | +17.7% | +3.2 |
| 2026to Oct 2026 | +13.9% | +14.1% | −0.3 |
A historical test on paper, before costs and taxes. It trades at the close of the first trading day after each report comes out, up to 45 days after the trade, sizes from reported ranges, and skips delisted companies, which flatters it.