Washington Trades is a trading system that uses public disclosures of trades made by members of the U.S. Congress. Under U.S. law, members of Congress are required to report their investment transactions. This information is made public and can be analyzed by investors.
Various studies have shown that members of the U.S. Congress have consistently outperformed the market during certain periods. Washington Trades uses this publicly available information and translates it into a systematic trading strategy.
The system tracks reports of purchases and sales and uses that information to determine which positions to take.
When new trades by members of Congress are made public, they are analyzed using the Washington Trades model. Based on this data, the system may open new positions or close existing ones.
As a participant, you don’t need to track or analyze this information yourself. Through the Systems2follow platform, you can automatically link the strategy to your own securities account at MEXEM.
When the system opens or closes a position, that trade is also executed in your account. This allows you to follow the strategy completely automatically.
The system can be linked to your own securities account at MEXEM. Trades are then executed automatically according to the strategy.
This means that you:
doesn't have to do its own analysis
doesn't have to monitor the market every day
you can still participate in a systematic investment strategy
You always have full visibility into your own account and positions.
The Washington Trades strategy can be implemented with a relatively small initial investment. The strategy can be applied with as little as approximately €2,500.
This makes the system accessible to both novice and experienced investors.
Who is this system suitable for?
Washington Trades is suitable for investors who:
want to take advantage of publicly available market information
wish to adopt a systematic strategy
don't want to analyze the market themselves every day
want their portfolio to be managed using a data-driven trading model
During the webinar, trader Tom Peetoom will provide a detailed explanation of the system and how the strategy is developed.
If you’d like to learn more about this strategy and how you can implement it through your own brokerage account, sign up for the webinar or schedule a meeting with the Systems2follow team.
