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And if they're consistently worse than the average, just execute the inverse of their trades and beat the market. :)

Joking aside, I'm surprised that members of Congress have even allowed to trade on the markets, given how much inside information they know.

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I think it's actually worse than that: I think they are specifically allowed to do more insider trading than the average US citizen. I could be wrong though, I just heard that once upon a time.

seems like the STOCK Act should have closed that loophole, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act,so it's illegal we just have to see if anyone is prosecuted over it.

If I recall correctly, the stock act has them regulating themselves.

Yeah, seems pretty obvious that they should at least be required to do the same sort of advance scheduling of trades that execs are.

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