Unusual Whales charges $50/month for one layer of data. PolyTICK gives you eight layers — all free to start. Politician trades, committee data, ARK tracking, analyst targets, overlay signals, Motley Fool picks, AI analysis, congressional hearing sentiment.
Unusual Whales is built for options traders. PolyTICK is built for traders who want to follow the money of the people who write the rules — with full context, institutional overlay, and a free plan that beats Unusual Whales' paid tiers.
Every layer below is FREE right now. The last two are launching soon — and they're included in the paid plans when they do.
Real-time STOCK Act filings for every senator and representative — Nancy Pelosi, Tommy Tuberville, Dan Crenshaw, and 500+ more. Know what they buy before the news catches up.
The feature Unusual Whales doesn't have. A senator on the Armed Services Committee buying defense stocks is a completely different signal. PolyTICK tells you the difference automatically.
Track every move Cathie Wood makes across ARKK, ARKW, ARKG, ARKF, and ARKX in real time. When ARK and a politician are both buying the same stock — PolyTICK flags it.
Wall Street upgrades, downgrades, and price targets from top investment banks — aggregated and overlaid on every trade. See what the pros think before you act.
Our proprietary signal fires when layers align. Committee member buys + ARK accumulates + analyst upgrades = one high-conviction alert. Not three tabs to check manually.
Track Motley Fool Stock Advisor picks overlaid on political trades. When a committee member buys a stock Motley Fool just picked — that convergence matters.
A trained model that scores every trade based on timing relative to legislative events, bill progressions, and multi-layer convergence. Algorithmic edge on top of the fundamentals.
NLP analysis of congressional hearing transcripts. Detect bullish or bearish sector sentiment before it becomes a headline — an early warning system no competitor offers.
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If you're paying Unusual Whales to track congressional trades — not primarily for options flow — you're overpaying by $420 to $600 per year for a single data stream that PolyTICK gives you free, alongside 5 more live intelligence layers.
Unusual Whales has a genuinely strong options flow product. If you're primarily tracking put/call ratios, dark pool prints, and unusual sweeps — with political data as a secondary use — it's a capable platform with an established community and years of history.
But if you're using Unusual Whales primarily for congressional data, you're using the wrong tool — and overpaying for it.
"Senator bought oil stocks." — You have no idea if this is a routine personal finance move or a signal tied to upcoming energy regulation they're helping to write.
"Senate Energy Committee member bought oil stocks — and sits on the subcommittee that votes on pipeline regulation next month." Now that's a signal.
Congress has over 200 standing committees and subcommittees. The senators and representatives who sit on them have visibility — through testimony, briefings, and legislative drafts — into regulatory changes that move markets. Without knowing their committee roles, you're reading half a sentence.
"Unusual Whales shows you the trade. PolyTICK shows you the motive."
Every plan starts free. No tricks, no watered-down trials. All 6 live layers are yours at $0 — upgrade only when you want Layers 7 & 8.
From raw filing to high-conviction alert — automatically.
Politicians must disclose trades within 45 days under the STOCK Act. PolyTICK digitizes every filing the moment it's published — normalized by politician, ticker, trade type, and value range.
Every trade is instantly matched against the politician's live committee and subcommittee assignments. No manual research. The context appears in your feed automatically.
PolyTICK checks if ARK Invest is moving in the same direction. ARK publishes holdings changes nightly — making near-real-time cross-referencing possible.
Wall Street ratings, price targets, upgrades, and downgrades are pulled in and matched to every ticker. A politician buying a stock analysts just upgraded carries more weight than one they just downgraded.
The overlay indicator scores each trade by how many layers point at the same stock. Committee alignment + ARK accumulation + analyst upgrade + Motley Fool pick = one high-conviction alert. You act — not spend 20 minutes cross-referencing tabs.
6 live intelligence layers. Committee data. ARK tracking. Analyst targets. Confluence signals. Motley Fool picks. All free. No credit card. No tricks.
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