What if you had copied Terri A. Sewell?
Democrat, AL-7
The verdict
Copying Terri A. Sewell's reported trades from May 2025 would have turned $10,000 into $15,168, more than the S&P 500 did.
The S&P 500 turned the same $10,000 into $13,068 over the same days. The copy returned +32.2% a year against +19.6% for the S&P 500, 13 points a year ahead. Its worst fall was 15.0%, from Oct 29, 2025 to Mar 30, 2026. The S&P 500's worst fall over the test was 8.9%.
Copied May 13, 2025 to Nov 9, 2026 · House trade reports and daily closes
What $10,000 became
- Copying Terri A. Sewell$15,168
- S&P 500$13,068
- Kept every buy and ignored their sales$15,168
If you had kept every buy and ignored their sales, you would have ended at about the same place, $15,168.
- $10,000 copied
- $15,168
- +51.7%, +32.2% a year
- In the S&P 500
- $13,068
- +30.7%, +19.6% a year
- Kept every buy
- $15,168
- Their sales ignored
- Worst fall
- −15.0%
- Oct 29, 2025 to Mar 30, 2026
- Trades
- 2
- 2 buys, 0 sales
The moves that made the most
- AAPLApple+$3,275
Held since May 2025, the stock up 65%
- NVDANVIDIA+$1,893
Held since May 2025, the stock up 38%
The moves that cost the most
No position lost money for the copy.
Year by year
| Year | Copy | S&P 500 | Gap, pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025from May 2025 | +35.8% | +17.2% | +18.5 |
| 2026to Nov 2026 | +11.7% | +11.5% | +0.2 |
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.