Quiver shows you what Congress trades. This shows you whether the smart money agrees. “A senator just bought the stock I'm watching — does that mean anything?” Quiver Quantitative built the widest alternative-data feed in retail investing to surface exactly those moments: congressional trades, corporate lobbying, government contracts, patents, and app ratings, with backtested strategies and Quantbase copytrading, from a free tier to Premium at $25 a month. HoldingsIntel takes the second half of the question: for $19 a month it benchmarks each congressional buy over the member's own holding window, then checks whether the 551 largest managers — every holding rated 0–100 — and the company's insiders and activists filed the same direction.
We build HoldingsIntel. Every number below is sourced and dated so you can check it — and where Quiver Quantitative is the better tool, the table says so.
HoldingsIntel vs. Quiver Quantitative
Quiver shows you what Congress trades. This shows you whether the smart money agrees.
“A senator just bought the stock I'm watching — does that mean anything?” Quiver Quantitative built the widest alternative-data feed in retail investing to surface exactly those moments: congressional trades, corporate lobbying, government contracts, patents, and app ratings, with backtested strategies and Quantbase copytrading, from a free tier to Premium at $25 a month. HoldingsIntel takes the second half of the question: for $19 a month it benchmarks each congressional buy over the member's own holding window, then checks whether the 551 largest managers — every holding rated 0–100 — and the company's insiders and activists filed the same direction.
| Dimension | HoldingsIntel | Quiver Quantitative |
|---|---|---|
| Congressional trade tracking | STOCK Act feed with per-member profiles and trade histories | STOCK Act feed with dashboards and a politician leaderboard |
| Member returns vs the market | each buy measured against SPY over the trade's own entry and exit dates1 | raw performance figures |
| Lobbying, contracts & patents | not offered | core datasets, unmatched in the category |
| What the filings add up to | institutional + insider + activist + congressional resolved into one scored read per stock | each dataset browsed as its own dashboard |
| Strategy backtesting | Fund Cloner — replay any tracked fund's portfolio, scenario by scenario | Strategies with one-click Quantbase copytrading |
| Native mobile app | web only | iOS and Android apps |
| Institutional coverage | the 551 managers holding 90% of US 13F capital, read line by line2 | all 13F filers, presented as holdings dashboards |
| Price | $19/mo (Pro), free tier | $25/mo (Premium), free tier |
1The benchmark buys and sells SPY on the same dates as the member's trade, so the comparison is over the identical holding window — a raw return vs a full-period index would flatter or punish members for timing they never chose.
2Dollar-weighted: total holdings value reported by tracked managers ÷ total value reported across all SEC Form 13F filings, computed from SEC 13F datasets and re-verified quarterly (as of 2026-07-11). Measures disclosed institutional holdings — not the whole US stock market, and not assets we manage.
One feed vs one verdict
Quiver's design goal is range — if a public dataset might move a stock, it belongs in the feed, and no one else assembles as many. The cost of range is that every dataset arrives as its own dashboard: Congress in one tab, lobbying in another, 13F holdings in a third, with the connecting judgment left to you. HoldingsIntel inverts that trade. Four SEC filing types — institutional, insider, activist, congressional — resolve into a single 0–100 read per stock, with the weights and the forward test published. When a senator and three focused funds buy the same name in the same quarter, that shows up here as one number, not four tabs.
Where Quiver Quantitative is the better tool
For alternative data beyond SEC filings, Quiver has no peer: lobbying spend, government contracts, patents, and app ratings exist nowhere else in this comparison, the Quantbase integration turns a backtested strategy into a live portfolio in one click, and the mobile apps are real native apps. Plenty of readers keep both tabs open — Quiver as the wide net for what Washington and the data exhaust are doing, HoldingsIntel for whether the largest managers' filings back the trade — because the two products answer different questions from the same public record.
Bottom line
Choose Quiver Quantitative
For the widest alternative-data net: lobbying, contracts, patents, strategies, and copytrading, from $25 a month.
Choose HoldingsIntel
For whether the money agrees: congressional buys benchmarked over their own holding windows, and 551 managers' filings scored into one read per stock, from $19 a month.
References
- SEC EDGAR full-text 13F filing system — primary source for all holdings data
- House and Senate STOCK Act disclosure portals — primary source for congressional trades
- Quiver Quantitative public pricing page, as of 2026-07 (prior verification)
Questions traders actually ask
Quiver already tracks Congress — what does HoldingsIntel add on top?
Two layers. First, a benchmark: every tracked member's buys are measured against SPY over the same entry and exit dates, so a flattering raw return can't hide an index-lagging record. Second, context: each congressional trade sits next to what the 551 largest institutional managers, corporate insiders, and activists filed on the same stock, netted into a single score. Quiver shows the trade; this shows whether anyone with a filing obligation agrees with it.
Is Quiver Quantitative's 13F coverage a substitute for HoldingsIntel's?
Both platforms carry 13F holdings, but they weight them differently. On Quiver, institutional positions are one dataset among many, with a backtester on top. Here the 13F record is the whole product: every position of 551 managers scored 0–100, with the score's forward returns published band by band. If institutional filings are a tab you occasionally open, Quiver's version is enough; if they're the reason you subscribe, this is the deeper read.
Do Quiver Quantitative and HoldingsIntel overlap enough that running both is wasteful?
Less than the category labels suggest. The overlap is congressional trades and raw 13F holdings — both public records, free at the source. What you pay each platform for differs: Quiver's $25/mo buys lobbying, contracts, patents, strategies, and copytrading; HoldingsIntel's $19/mo buys the scoring and synthesis of the filings themselves. The pair together costs under $45 a month.
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