Here are her 5 biggest investing wins to learn from

Marjorie Taylor Greene is leaving Congress, but not before one of the best investment runs ever by a sitting politician.

On Nov. 21, 2025, the Georgia Republican announced she would resign effective Jan. 5, 2026, citing a bitter falling out with President Donald Trump over her demands to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Greene’s 2020 candidate financial disclosure showed a total net worth of roughly $18.8 million. Most of that came from her 51% stake in Taylor Commercial, Inc., valued between $5 million and $25 million, plus several million in real estate. Her stock portfolio at the time was relatively small: about $630,000 spread across roughly 50 individual holdings.

That detail has been widely misunderstood. Several outlets have reported a pre-Congress net worth of $700,000 — a figure that appears to refer only to her stock holdings. Her 2020 disclosure makes clear she was already a multi-millionaire before taking office.

At time of writing, Greene will leave Congress in January with an estimated net worth of $25 million according to Quiver Quantitative (1). That’s a 33% increase in overall wealth — but the real story is in her stock portfolio, which has ballooned to an estimated $2.6 million to $4 million, up 476% since 2021.

In 2024, Greene ranked as the 23rd best-performing trader in Congress, with her portfolio gaining 30.2% compared to the S&P 500’s 24.9% return. She’s executed over 450 stock trades since joining the House and bought $3.89 million in stocks in 2024 alone.

MTG has been on fire in 2025. Out of 216 total trades this year, 161 are currently profitable — a hedge-fund-like 74.5% win rate. A remarkable 92 of those trades have gained more than 10%.

Greene attributes her success to a portfolio manager who handles all trades under a fiduciary agreement. “I don’t place my buys and sells,” she told reporters at a Georgia town hall (2). “He did a great job. Guess what he did. He bought the dip.”

But critics point to unusually well-timed trades — purchases that seemed to anticipate market-moving announcements from the Trump administration. Whether savvy investing or something more concerning, her five biggest wins offer lessons for any investor navigating volatile markets.

Greene has been one of AMD’s most consistent congressional buyers, purchasing shares of Advanced Micro Devices over a dozen times since 2021. In 2025 alone, she’s made multiple purchases and the timing has paid off.

Her April 2025 AMD buys shot up over 80% from her first purchase and roughly 50% from her second. The semiconductor giant has been one of her best-performing positions this year. What’s the play? AMD is a direct beneficiary of the AI boom, competing with Nvidia for data center and AI chip dominance. Greene’s repeated purchases suggest a long-term conviction in the sector, or at least her advisor’s conviction.

The lesson: Dollar-cost averaging into a high-conviction position can smooth out volatility and build substantial gains over time. Greene didn’t try to time a single perfect entry, she kept buying through dips and rallies alike.

Individual blockbusters aside, Greene has consistently accumulated shares in familiar tech giants:

• Adobe: Purchased in 6 of 10 months in 2025

• Amazon: Frequent purchases throughout 2024-2025

• Alphabet: Bought five days before a favorable court ruling sent shares higher

• Apple, Microsoft, Meta: Regular additions

Her most dramatic sequence came with CrowdStrike. After buying shares on June 24, 2024 at $377.93 — just before the July IT outage that sent the stock crashing — her advisor doubled down with additional purchases in September. Today CrowdStrike trades around $507 and recently reached an all-time high of $557.53. The post-crash buys are up 75–100%, and even her poorly timed June purchase is still up about 34%.

The lesson: Don’t bet everything on one stock. Greene’s strategy spreads risk across multiple tech giants — if one stumbles (like CrowdStrike after the outage), others can carry the portfolio. Sector diversification within a high-conviction theme reduces the pain of any single miss.

Another lesson: The best gains come from stocks everyone else has given up on. Greene’s advisor turned CrowdStrike from her worst-timed trade into one of her best by buying the crash. When a quality company stumbles on a fixable problem, that’s often an opportunity for investors.

Greene also made headlines for her iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF purchases in early 2025. She bought shares on Jan. 8 just before Trump’s inauguration, and doubled down on March 3, purchasing $15,000 to $50,000 worth just three days before Trump signed an executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

At Bitcoin’s October 2025 peak of around $126,000, those trades were up roughly 30-37%. But the crypto crash in November dragged prices back down to roughly $91,000 — erasing her gains and leaving the position near break-even.

The lesson: Crypto’s volatility is not to be underestimated. Even well-timed trades can take a round-trip back to below your starting position if you don’t take profits. Greene’s Bitcoin bet looked brilliant in October — and far less impressive by Thanksgiving. It remains to be seen if it’ll look brilliant again.

Greene has been accumulating Tesla shares throughout 2024 and 2025, buying the stock in at least five of the first 10 months of 2025. Her best-timed Tesla purchase came in September 2024, when she bought shares at around $210. By late October, the stock had surged to $269 — an 85.6% gain.

The trade came before Tesla’s impressive third-quarter 2024 earnings, which helped the company recover from its controversial “Robotaxi” event. Greene also bought shares on Nov. 1, 2024 — just days before the presidential election that would send Tesla soaring as Elon Musk’s relationship with Trump deepened.

While Greene chaired the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE), she also defended Tesla publicly and pushed for investigations into anti-Tesla activism. Critics argue this created conflict-of-interest concerns.

The lesson: Pay attention to who’s in power. Investing in companies with political tailwinds is great pattern recognition. Tesla surged after Trump’s election as Musk became the administration’s closest billionaire ally. Make sure to take a look at what new government contracts companies close to the administration are likely to close.

Greene purchased Palantir shares on April 7 and April 8, 2025, paying $77.32 and $92.01 per share respectively. Three days later, on April 11, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded Palantir a $29.9 million contract for a surveillance system to prioritize deportation cases. The deal was made public on April 17.

By early July, Palantir stock had reached $144.25 — an 86.5% gain from her first trade. By August 2025, the stock was up 142% from her purchase price.

Greene encountered controversy over this as she sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security, which oversees ICE. Palantir regularly lands government contracts for intelligence and surveillance work. Several of Palantir’s co-founders, including Peter Thiel, are prominent Trump supporters.

Greene says she doesn’t sit on the specific subcommittee that oversees ICE (she’s on Counterterrorism and Intelligence), and that her portfolio manager made the trade without her knowledge. “I learned about my Palantir trades when I saw it in the media,” she said in an emailed statement to Snopes (3).

In total, Greene has bought Palantir stock four times in 2025 alone.

The lesson: Government contractors can be lucrative investments — Palantir stock is up over 420% in the past year. But for everyday investors, it’s key to pay attention to companies with “sticky” revenue streams from long-term government contracts. Microsoft is a great example of this.

On April 8-9, 2025, Greene disclosed buying between $21,000 and $315,000 worth of stocks in 17 companies — including Amazon, Apple, Nike, Tesla, Nvidia and Palantir according to a public disclosure. She also sold between $50,000 and $100,000 in Treasury bills at the same time.

Hours later, President Trump announced a 90-day pause on his sweeping “reciprocal tariffs.” Markets soared. The stocks Greene had just purchased jumped immediately:

Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer, sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission requesting an investigation into whether insider knowledge influenced Greene’s trades. Greene’s response? “I think that criticism is laughable. President Trump has been talking about tariffs for decades,” she said in the Georgia town hall mentioned earlier (2).

She maintains her portfolio manager made the trades independently based on publicly available information.

The lesson: Buying when others are selling — “buying the dip” — has historically been a winning strategy. The April 2025 tariff chaos was a textbook example of market overreaction. The challenge? Most retail investors don’t have the nerve (or the information) to buy during panic selling.

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Members of Congress are allowed to buy and sell stocks. The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012 requires them to disclose trades over $1,000 within 45 days. But that 45-day delay means retail investors can’t copy trades in real time.

Greene has faced calls for investigation from both Democrats and Republicans:

• April 2025: Warren and Schumer requested an SEC investigation into her tariff-adjacent trades

• August 2025: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called her “exhibit A” for congressional corruption (4)

• Republican criticism: Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) said her trades are “just another reason why stock trading by members of Congress or their spouses should be banned” (5)

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has introduced the “PELOSI Act” — the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act — which would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. The PELOSI Act is named after the poster-child of congressional trading controversy, Nancy Pelosi, whose investments were revealed to be up over 16,000%. Both Speaker Mike Johnson and President Trump have voiced support for such a ban.

Greene rejects the criticism and argues, “I refuse to hide my stock trades in a blind trust like many others do. All of my investments are reported with full transparency.” (3)

Greene’s wealth isn’t solely from stock trading. According to her 2020 candidate disclosure and subsequent annual filings, here’s the breakdown:

Major assets (2020 pre-Congress disclosure):

• Taylor Commercial Inc.: Greene and her then-husband owned 100% of her family’s construction business, valued at $5 million to $25 million, generating $100,001 to $1 million annually in distributions

• Marconi Drive Offices, Inc.: Real estate holding valued at $1 million to $5 million, generating $100,001 to $1 million in rent

• Greene Raleigh Gardens, LLC: Real estate valued at $50,001 to $100,000

• Cash accounts: $100,001 to $250,000 in Schwab and Wells Fargo accounts

• Retirement accounts: Approximately $465,000 across various 401K plans

• Individual stocks: Roughly $630,000 across 50+ holdings

Current assets (2025):

• Taylor Commercial Inc.: Now valued at $5 million to $25 million, but Greene retains only a 51% stake following her 2022 divorce

• PMLTD, Inc.: Real estate company valued at $1 million to $5 million

• Congressional Federal Credit Union: $1 million to $5 million in cash

• Washington D.C. condo: Non-primary residence worth $500,001 to $1 million

• Stock portfolio: Estimated $2.6 million to $4 million in publicly traded assets

• Congressional salary: $174,000 annually

• Book royalties: $178,229.99 in 2024 from her autobiography MTG

In August 2025 she pushed back against critics and her commonly cited 2021 $700,000 net worth figure on X: “I’ve owned my family’s construction business for well over two decades and made all of my net worth BEFORE I became a Member of Congress… Go to hell.” (6).

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s trading record — 30.2% returns in 2024, a 74.5% win rate in 2025, and a 476% increase in her stock portfolio since 2021 — is extraordinary by any measure. Whether it reflects a shrewd eye, fortunate timing or something more troubling is up to regulators.

Her departure from Congress won’t end the scrutiny. If anything, Greene’s resignation puts a spotlight on just how lucrative stock trading can be for members of Congress. She entered with a stock portfolio worth roughly $630,000 and left with one worth an estimated $3-4 million — plus a book deal, a media profile and holdings stuffed with tech stocks and Bitcoin ETFs.

For regular investors, the actionable lessons are simpler: build positions in quality names over time, don’t panic during volatility, and pay attention to where government money is flowing.

Just remember: you’re playing a different game than members of Congress. They may have access to information you don’t — and that’s exactly why the debate over congressional stock trading isn’t going away anytime soon.

Writer’s note: I do not currently hold positions in any of these companies. This article was written for entertainment purposes and is not intended as investment advice.

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Quiver Quantitative (1); X.com, @unusual_whales (2); Snopes (3; The Hill (4); X.com, @lawler4ny (5); X.com, @RepMTG (6)

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