What if you had copied Virginia Foxx?
Republican, NC-5
The verdict
Copying Virginia Foxx's reported trades from Jan 2023 would have turned $10,000 into $17,287, less than the S&P 500 did.
The S&P 500 turned the same $10,000 into $20,610 over the same days. The copy returned +15.3% a year against +20.7% for the S&P 500, 5.4 points a year behind. Its worst fall was 16.1%, from Jan 24, 2025 to Apr 8, 2025. The S&P 500's worst fall over the test was 18.8%.
Copied Jan 4, 2023 to Nov 9, 2026 · House trade reports and daily closes
What $10,000 became
- Copying Virginia Foxx$17,287
- S&P 500$20,610
- Kept every buy and ignored their sales$17,565
If you had kept every buy and ignored their sales, you would have ended at $17,565, so following every move cost $278.
- $10,000 copied
- $17,287
- +72.9%, +15.3% a year
- In the S&P 500
- $20,610
- +106.1%, +20.7% a year
- Kept every buy
- $17,565
- Their sales ignored
- Worst fall
- −16.1%
- Jan 24, 2025 to Apr 8, 2025
- Trades
- 140
- 118 buys, 22 sales
The moves that made the most
- R2000092132 JT Ryder System+$1,510
Held since Jan 2023, the stock up 265%
Held from Jan 2023 to Feb 2026, the stock up 70%
Held since Jan 2023, the stock up 97%
Held since Jan 2023, the stock up 64%
Held since Jan 2023, the stock up 107%
Held since Jan 2023, the stock up 97%
The moves that cost the most
- FLNGFlex LNG−$129
Held from Feb 2023 to Apr 2025, the stock down 14%
Held from Jun 2023 to Feb 2024, the stock down 18%
Held from Mar 2023 to Apr 2023, the stock down 11%
- MOAltria−$39
Held from Jan 2023 to Feb 2024, the stock down 2%
Held from Jan 2025 to Jul 2025, the stock down 17%
Held from Mar 2023 to Sep 2023, the stock down 3%
Year by year
| Year | Copy | S&P 500 | Gap, pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023from Jan 2023 | +8.9% | +25.7% | −16.8 |
| 2024 | +30.2% | +24.9% | +5.3 |
| 2025 | +10.3% | +17.7% | −7.5 |
| 2026to Nov 2026 | +10.6% | +11.5% | −0.9 |
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.