What if you had copied Victoria Spartz?
Republican, IN-5
The verdict
Copying Victoria Spartz's reported trades from Jan 2023 would have turned $10,000 into $21,086, more than the S&P 500 did.
The S&P 500 turned the same $10,000 into $19,847 over the same days. The copy returned +21.6% a year against +19.6% for the S&P 500, 1.9 points a year ahead. Its worst fall was 24.3%, from Mar 3, 2025 to Apr 8, 2025. The S&P 500's worst fall over the test was 18.8%.
Copied Jan 13, 2023 to Nov 9, 2026 · House trade reports and daily closes
What $10,000 became
- Copying Victoria Spartz$21,086
- S&P 500$19,847
- Kept every buy and ignored their sales$22,552
If you had kept every buy and ignored their sales, you would have ended at $22,552, so following every move cost $1,466.
- $10,000 copied
- $21,086
- +110.9%, +21.6% a year
- In the S&P 500
- $19,847
- +98.5%, +19.6% a year
- Kept every buy
- $22,552
- Their sales ignored
- Worst fall
- −24.3%
- Mar 3, 2025 to Apr 8, 2025
- Trades
- 12
- 11 buys, 1 sales
The moves that made the most
- SPGSimon Property+$11,086
Held since Jan 2023, the stock up 111%
The moves that cost the most
No position lost money for the copy.
Year by year
| Year | Copy | S&P 500 | Gap, pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023from Jan 2023 | +20.9% | +21.1% | −0.2 |
| 2024 | +27.1% | +24.9% | +2.2 |
| 2025 | +5.5% | +17.7% | −12.2 |
| 2026to Nov 2026 | +30.1% | +11.5% | +18.6 |
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.