Policy Monitor
Trade policy actions, tariffs, export controls, and regulatory changes affecting public markets. Track policy risk in real time.
52 policy actions available.
General Services Acquisition Regulation; Acquisition of Information and Communic...
Impact: · Sectors: ai
Affected tickers: {'sector_inferred': ['NVDA', 'MSFT', 'SMCI', 'DELL', 'AMD', 'META', 'GOOGL', 'VRT']}
Presidential Determination and Delegation of Authority Under Section 708 of the ...
Impact: · Sectors: defense
Affected tickers: {'sector_inferred': ['GD', 'BA', 'LMT', 'CRS', 'NOC', 'LHX', 'HWM', 'RTX']}
Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee
Impact: · Sectors: defense
Affected tickers: {'sector_inferred': ['GD', 'BA', 'LMT', 'CRS', 'NOC', 'LHX', 'HWM', 'RTX']}
Assistance to Foreign Atomic Energy Activities
Impact: · Sectors: energy
Affected tickers: {'sector_inferred': ['PLUG', 'VST', 'BE', 'NEE', 'OKLO', 'GEV', 'CCJ', 'SMR', 'CEG', 'LEU', 'UEC']}
Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for Fiscal Year 2026
Impact: · Sectors: energy
Affected tickers: {'sector_inferred': ['PLUG', 'VST', 'BE', 'NEE', 'OKLO', 'GEV', 'CCJ', 'SMR', 'CEG', 'LEU', 'UEC']}
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Policy Monitor
Executive orders, DPA invocations, agency rulemakings, and federal actions across AI, semiconductors, energy, critical minerals, crypto, cybersecurity, defense, and EVs — tracked the day they hit the Federal Register, before they become headlines.
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Why Policy Actions Move Markets
Federal policy creates forced demand that doesn't respond to earnings misses or macro headwinds. When the President signs an executive order restricting AI chip exports, or the DOE invokes the Defense Production Act to stockpile critical minerals, or the SEC issues new crypto custody rules — it creates a floor (or ceiling) under specific companies regardless of what the broader market does. These aren't opinions — they're legally binding procurement mandates, trade restrictions, and regulatory frameworks with multi-year implementation timelines.
Most investors read the headline days later. We scan the Federal Register the same day the action is filed — across 15 agencies and every presidential document — before it reaches financial news. Every high-impact action is mapped to affected tickers and fed into our convergence detection pipeline, where it compounds with institutional positioning, insider activity, and options flow.
What We Pull
6 Sources, 15 Agencies
Federal Register (DOE, DOD, SEC, CFTC, NRC, FERC, EPA, Commerce, Treasury, Interior, NIST, ITC, ITA), executive orders, proclamations, EXIM/DFC financing, and cross-sector policy news
Sectors Tracked
10+
AI, semiconductors, EVs, crypto, quantum, critical minerals, rare earths, cybersecurity, energy/nuclear, defense, and trade policy
Where It Goes
Convergence Pipeline
High-impact actions feed directly into our 37-source convergence engine, stacking with 13F, congressional trades, and options data
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Data Sources and Methodology
The Policy Monitor runs daily across 6 data sources and 15 federal agencies, scanning for actions with direct market consequences in our tracked sectors:
- Executive orders, memoranda, and proclamations — Presidential actions that bypass Congress and take immediate effect. An executive order restricting AI chip exports or invoking the DPA to stockpile rare earths moves markets the day it's signed. We catch these via the Federal Register API, filtered by sector relevance across all 10+ themes.
- Defense Production Act (DPA) invocations — Title I creates mandatory purchase agreements. Title III provides direct subsidies and loan guarantees. These create quantifiable demand floors for specific commodities and the companies that produce them — forced buyers that don't care about your DCF model.
- Agency rulemakings (proposed + final) — DOE efficiency standards, NRC licensing decisions, SEC crypto custody rules, CFTC digital asset frameworks, EPA emissions mandates, FERC grid interconnection orders, and Commerce export controls. Proposed rules signal intent; final rules create obligation. The gap between proposal and implementation is where the opportunity lives.
- Trade restrictions and export controls — Section 232/301 tariff actions, entity list additions, semiconductor equipment restrictions, and critical mineral import adjustments that reshape global supply chains and force reshoring.
- EXIM Bank and DFC financing — Government-backed loans and guarantees for strategic sectors: mining, energy, defense exports, and semiconductor fabrication. These de-risk private investment in capital-intensive industries.
Each action is scored 1-10 based on sector relevance, regulatory scope (executive order > final rule > proposed rule > notice), dollar magnitude, and implementation timeline. Actions scoring 4+ are mapped to affected tickers using keyword detection and our supply chain graph, then fed into the convergence detection pipeline as a policy layer alongside 34 other independent sources.