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David A. Trott Republican · MI-11

House of Representatives · former member · serving since 2015 · born October 16, 1960

Transactions 44 across 2 filings
Securities traded 12 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $1,987,044 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 44 disclosed trades, 0 were flagged by the site's published rules.

None of these trades met the flagging rules. That is the ordinary result — most trades, by most members, are unremarkable.

Across the whole database, congressional trading beats the market by close to nothing on average, and only slightly more trades look unusual than chance alone would produce. Most members, most of the time, are unremarkable. That is the backdrop for anything you read here. A flag is a prompt to look at the record, never a finding about a person.

Seat & district history

SeatCongressesServedChange
MI-11 114th–115th 2015–2019 first seat

District numbers change when a state is redistricted, so a renumbering here is not necessarily a move — the boundaries were redrawn around the member. Term records come from the public congress-legislators dataset.

Committees

No current committee assignments on file (former member).

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
115thHouse Committee on Financial Services Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thHouse Committee on the Judiciary Member 2015-02 → 2016-12

The published roster covers only the sitting Congress, so earlier assignments are reconstructed from the dated version history of that same public dataset, sampled monthly back to 2012. Observed is the span across which we actually saw the seat held — it is evidence of tenure, not a precise start and end date, and a seat that changed hands between two monthly samples may be dated up to a month out. Committees with no history recorded are absent because no snapshot showed them, which is not evidence the member held no seat.

Currently trading — last 6 months

0 securities

No transactions disclosed in the last 6 months.

Previously traded

12 securities

Securities with disclosed transactions before this window and none since. A security leaving this list means no reported trading — not that a position was closed. Holdings themselves are not disclosed in these filings.

TickerSecuritySectorTrades Buys / SellsTotal valueActive
VLP Valero Energy Partners LP 13 0 / 13 $104,007 2018-12 → 2018-12
SHLX Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. 2 2 / 0 $40,501 2018-12 → 2018-12
MPLX MPLX LP Oil & Gas 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2018-12 → 2018-12
PAGP Plains GP Holdings, L.P. - Class A Shar… Oil & Gas 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2018-12 → 2018-12
EQGP EQgP Holdings, LP Common Units represen… 3 0 / 3 $48,502 2018-12 → 2018-12
AMGP Antero Midstream gP LP Common Shares of… 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2018-12 → 2018-12
ET Energy Transfer LP Common Units (ET) Utilities 1 1 / 0 $32,501 2018-12 → 2018-12
AMJ JPMorgan Chase Capital XVI JP Morgan Al… 1 1 / 0 $175,001 2018-12 → 2018-12
PAA Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. Oil & Gas 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2018-12 → 2018-12
TRGP Targa Resources, Inc. Common Stock (TRG… Utilities 1 1 / 0 $75,001 2018-12 → 2018-12
TRP TC Energy Corporation Common Stock (TRP) Utilities 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2018-12 → 2018-12
WMB Williams Companies, Inc. (WMB) Utilities 1 0 / 1 $175,001 2018-12 → 2018-12

The Spread by year

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed value
2018 -10.8% 6 $355,503

Transaction timing versus the market over 90 trading days — not portfolio return, which these filings cannot support. See Methodology and the Scoreboard for the population baseline.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2019-01-03 WooDHAVEN BRNSTN MI SCH DST go 4.0000% 05/01/19 MN - buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2019-01-03 PUT/XSP @ 262 EXP 01/04/2019 - CBoE MINI SPX INDEX buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2019-01-03 PUT/XSP @ 235 EXP 02/22/2019 - CBoE MINI SPX INDEX sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2019-01-03 NEW MEXICo ST go 5% 03/01/25 MS - MUNI BoND buy $250,001 – $500,000 self
2019-01-03 BRIgHToN MICH AREA SCH buy $15,001+ self
2018-12-28 CALEDoNIA MICH CMNTY SCHS go 5% 05/01/25 MN - MUNI BoND buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2018-12-26 PUT/XSP @ 266 EXP 12/28/2018 - CBoE MINI SPX INDEX buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2018-12-26 PUT/XSP @ 225 EXP 02/01/2019 - CBoE MINI SPX INDEX sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-21 CITIgRoUP INC. LINKED To BASKET oF INDICES UPSIDE LEVERED CAPPED W BUFFER buy $100,001 – $250,000 self
2018-12-20 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-19 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-19 CRSWL&LXNgT MI CMN SCH go 5.0000% 05/01/23 MN - MUNI BoND buy $250,001 – $500,000 self
2018-12-18 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-18 SHLX Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. Common Units representing Limited Partner Interests (SHLX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-18 RoSEVILLE MICH CMNTY SCHS go 5% 05/01/25 MN - MUNI BoND buy $500,001 – $1,000,000 self
2018-12-18 PUT/XSP @ 268 EXP 12/21/2018 - CBoE MINI SPX INDEX buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2018-12-18 PUT/XSP @ 240 EXP 02/15/2019 - CBoE MINI SPX INDEX sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-18 MICHIgAN ST FoR ISSUES DTD go 5.0000% 12/01/22 JD - MUNI BoND sell $250,001 – $500,000 self
2018-12-17 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-17 PAGP Plains group Holdings, L.P. Class A Shares representing limited partner interests (PAgP) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2018-12-17 MPLX MPLX LP Common Units Representing Limited Partner Interests (MPLX) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2018-12-17 goldman Sachs Renewable Power LLC buy $100,001 – $250,000 self
2018-12-14 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-13 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-13 PUT/XSP @ 250 EXP 01/25/2019 - CBoE MINI SPX INDEX sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-12 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-12 EQGP EQgP Holdings, LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (EQgP) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2018-12-11 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-10 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-07 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-06 WMB Williams Companies, Inc. (WMB) sell $100,001 – $250,000 self
2018-12-06 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-06 TRP TransCanada Corporation (TRP) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2018-12-06 TRGP Targa Resources, Inc. (TRgP) buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2018-12-06 SHLX Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. Common Units representing Limited Partner Interests (SHLX) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2018-12-06 PAA Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (PAA) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-06 AMJ JPMorgan Chase Capital XVI JP Morgan Alerian MLP ETN (AMJ) buy $100,001 – $250,000 self
2018-12-06 ET Energy Transfer LP Common Units (ET) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2018-12-06 AMGP Antero Midstream gP LP Common Shares of Beneficial Interests (AMgP) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2018-12-04 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-04 PUT/XSP @ 262 EXP 01/04/2019 - CBoE MINI SPX INDEX sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-04 EQGP EQgP Holdings, LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (EQgP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-03 VLP Valero Energy Partners LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (VLP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2018-12-03 EQGP EQgP Holdings, LP Common Units representing limited partner interests (EQgP) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self