Tim Moore landed in Congress six months ago and immediately started doing two things: writing letters about flood-damaged rivers in western North Carolina and trading stocks. The letters are earnest. The trades are more interesting.
The News Peg: Rocky Broad River and a Freshman Making Noise
Moore is publicly pressing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to finalize a recovery plan for the Rocky Broad River near Chimney Rock, North Carolina. Hurricane Helene hit that region hard. Constituents want answers. Moore is writing letters. All standard freshman-legislator activity.
What's less standard is what's happening in his brokerage account while he does it.
The AT&T Shuffle: Three Days, Two Trades, Negative Alpha
Here's the sequence. On May 18, Moore purchased AT&T ($T) in the $15,001–$50,000 range. Three days later, on May 21, he sold it. Same ticker. Overlapping disclosure range. The sale clocked a 30-day alpha of negative 13.9 percent against the S&P 500.
Three days. You couldn't book a beach vacation in three days, but Moore booked a round trip on AT&T and came out behind the market.
There's no committee angle here. Moore sits on the House Financial Services Committee and its Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence subcommittee. AT&T is telecom infrastructure, not fintech. The Venn diagram with his oversight remit is two non-overlapping circles. So this is just a trade. A losing trade, specifically.
Same day as the AT&T sale, he voted Yea on the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act. That vote has no financial services angle. Floor votes happen; members cast hundreds of them on bills nowhere near their committee lanes. That one's just a vote.
The HOG Sale: $50K–$100K Out the Door
On April 7, Moore sold Harley-Davidson ($HOG) in the $50,000–$100,000 range. The public record doesn't say why. What it does say is that the worst HOG sale in his scored history posted a negative 14.9 percent 30-day alpha. This April trade isn't in the worst-of-sample list, but HOG has a pattern in his filings: he's sold it before and the timing has not been kind to him by the alpha metric.
Harley-Davidson and financial services oversight don't share a ZIP code either. No committee overlap. Just a member moving a position.
The Committee Trades: Intel, Three Weeks in a Row
This is the section that actually earns the reader's attention.
Moore sits on the Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence. Intel ($INTC) is squarely in that territory. And in August 2025, Moore purchased Intel three times in eleven days.
August 1: Purchase, $15,001–$50,000. 30-day alpha: plus 24.6 percent.
August 8: Purchase, $15,001–$50,000. 30-day alpha: plus 23.0 percent.
August 11: Purchase, $15,001–$50,000. 30-day alpha: plus 17.9 percent.
Then, two days after the third purchase, on August 13, he sold Intel in the $100,000–$250,000 range. That sale posted a 30-day alpha of plus 7.0 percent.
The math on those buys: three purchases totaling up to $150,000 at the bottom of the range, followed by a sale of up to $250,000 at the top of the range, all within two weeks, all in a company that sits directly in his subcommittee's jurisdiction.
Members are required to disclose. They are not required to divest, recuse, abstain, blush, or look up from their phones.
The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.
The Nvidia Close-Out
One more committee-overlap trade in the record: on March 24, 2026, Moore sold Nvidia ($NVDA) in the $15,001–$50,000 range. The 30-day alpha on that sale was essentially flat at negative 0.0 percent. Nvidia is also in the Digital Assets and AI subcommittee's wheelhouse.
The Intel trades posted meaningful positive alpha. The Nvidia sale broke even. Two companies, same committee jurisdiction, two different outcomes. That's the full picture, not a highlight reel.
The Broader Scorecard
Across 87 scored trades, Moore is 58-for-87 with a mean 30-day alpha of plus 4.8 percent against the S&P 500. That's a 66.7 percent win rate on a reasonably sized sample. Not a fluke-sized number.
But the worst trades are real too. The HY sale on October 24, 2025 posted a negative 23.7 percent 30-day alpha on a $100,000–$250,000 position. The HOG sale in November 2025 lost 14.9 percent alpha. The AT&T sale this May lost 13.9 percent. The losses aren't footnotes; they're part of the record.
The best non-committee trades: a December 2025 purchase of Genprobe ($GNPX) that posted plus 49.4 percent alpha, a Cracker Barrel ($CBRL) purchase that returned plus 32.1 percent alpha, a HY purchase in November 2025 at plus 29.0 percent. None of those carry a committee angle. They're just trades that worked.
On the committee-overlap side: three Intel buys in August 2025 averaging around plus 22 percent alpha each, one Intel sale at plus 7 percent, and one Nvidia sale at flat. The Intel sequence is the cluster that raises eyebrows, specifically because the subcommittee on Digital Assets and AI is exactly where oversight of semiconductor companies lives.
The Financial Services Votes
In late June, Moore voted Yea on both the TRIA Program Reauthorization Act of 2026 (terrorism risk insurance, market relevance score 80) and the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act of 2025 (market relevance score 80). Both passed. Both fall directly in Financial Services Committee territory.
Moore holds no flagged vote-trade overlaps in the Blind Trust dataset for those votes, meaning the disclosed trades around those dates didn't trip the timing thresholds. The votes are noted here because they're in his lane and they're recent. That's all the data supports saying.
The May Trades in Context
Five trades in 90 days: two AT&T positions (bought and sold in three days), one IHG Hotels purchase ($1,000–$15,000) on May 7, one Rolls-Royce Holdings ($RYCEY) purchase ($1,000–$15,000) on May 7, and the HOG sale in April.
IHG and Rolls-Royce are both outside his committee remit. Hotels and aerospace engines don't file regulatory comments with the Financial Services Committee. Routine portfolio activity by the look of it, sized small.
The HOG sale at $50,000–$100,000 is the largest single trade in the recent 90-day window. Harley-Davidson had a rough stretch in early 2026 amid tariff noise. Moore sold in April. The alpha data for that specific trade isn't in the worst-of-sample list, which means it performed better than his two worst HOG moments. That's a relative statement, not an endorsement.
What Blind Trust Tracks
Moore's full disclosure record is on file at Blind Trust. Eighty-seven scored trades. Fifty-eight positive alpha. Twenty-nine negative. Mean of plus 4.8 percent. Five committee-overlap trades, all in tech companies under his AI and digital assets subcommittee, all in a three-week window in August 2025 plus one Nvidia sale in March 2026.
He's writing letters about river recovery in North Carolina. He's voting on terrorism risk insurance and financial exploitation bills. And he's been trading Intel during the exact window his subcommittee would theoretically have a front-row seat on the sector.
The timing is the thing.