The primary takeaway from the congressional trading data in the first half of 2025 is that activity is low. While trades are being made, the activity pales in comparison to previous years due in large part to increased uncertainty. Congressional whale Nancy Pelosi’s statistics are a good example.
Pelosi has traded in 2025, but the last was in January, and none have been made since. Those included purchases of NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), and TempusAI (NASDAQ: TEM), call options specifically with a one-year expiration. As it stands, most of those calls are losing money, and time is running out quickly, but one isn’t:
