What if you had copied Robert E. Latta?
Republican, OH-5
The verdict
Copying Robert E. Latta's reported trades from Feb 2023 would have turned $10,000 into $14,554, less than the S&P 500 did.
The S&P 500 turned the same $10,000 into $19,299 over the same days. The copy returned +10.5% a year against +19.1% for the S&P 500, 8.6 points a year behind. Its worst fall was 40.8%, from Feb 7, 2023 to Oct 30, 2023. The S&P 500's worst fall over the test was 18.8%.
Copied Feb 6, 2023 to Nov 9, 2026 · House trade reports and daily closes
What $10,000 became
- Copying Robert E. Latta$14,554
- S&P 500$19,299
- Kept every buy and ignored their sales$14,554
If you had kept every buy and ignored their sales, you would have ended at about the same place, $14,554.
- $10,000 copied
- $14,554
- +45.5%, +10.5% a year
- In the S&P 500
- $19,299
- +93.0%, +19.1% a year
- Kept every buy
- $14,554
- Their sales ignored
- Worst fall
- −40.8%
- Feb 7, 2023 to Oct 30, 2023
- Trades
- 18
- 18 buys, 0 sales
The moves that made the most
Held since Feb 2023, the stock up 46%
The moves that cost the most
No position lost money for the copy.
Year by year
| Year | Copy | S&P 500 | Gap, pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023from Feb 2023 | −11.1% | +17.7% | −28.8 |
| 2024 | +23.1% | +24.9% | −1.8 |
| 2025 | −13.0% | +17.7% | −30.7 |
| 2026to Nov 2026 | +52.9% | +11.5% | +41.4 |
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.