According to congressional strading.com, the stock trading database for members of Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Nancy Pelosi) and her husband have purchasedCall options for several technology stocks, including Alphabet Inc-CL C, Roblox and Walt Disney CompanyThe transaction is worth millions of dollars.

In addition, Pelosi and her husband Paul also bought$Micron Technology Inc (MU.US) $And$CRM.US (Saifu) $Call option of. Paul is understood to run Financial Leasing Services, a real estate, venture capital and consulting firm.

It is reported that the transaction took place between December 17 and December 21. The database displays, whereThe costs involved in buying options for Sai FTSE and Alphabet Inc-CL C are the highest, between $500000 and $1 million.Other options trade between $250000 and $500000.

The value of call options is likely to rise sharply in recent days as the US stock market is boosted by the "Christmas market" effect at the end of the year. Since Pelosi bought these options, the share prices of each company in the report have risen.

However, the strike price of these options is not disclosed in the report, and they expire for a long time, in 2022 or 2023, so this appears to be a long-term leveraged bet.

Earlier, there were media reports that, according to the trading records released by House Speaker Pelosi, most of the securities investments made by his family were profitable. Pelosi, who is in politics, has become a "god" in the securities and investment circle in the United States, with short video bloggers calling her a "great prophet" and chanting, "it's right to buy stocks with Pelosi."

This also led to questions in the media, "how does a professional politician with an annual salary of $223000 accumulate a fortune of $120 million?" Pelosi defended himself earlier this month, saying that the US is a "free market economy" market, so lawmakers "should be able to participate".

Pelosi's statement came just days after Congressman Curtis called for a ban on stock trading while members of Congress were in office. Lawmakers such as Curtis believe that legislators have access to information that the public does not know and have the ability to formulate and pass policies, so they should avoid buying and selling assets such as individual stocks, but support lawmakers to invest in index funds. Curtis said:

"I choose not to own any shares so that I can be fair in policy making. "

In fact, since the epidemic, federal legislators, Fed officials and other government officials have had a series of scandals involving suspicious transactions.

Us Senator Richard Burr (Richard Burr) is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to determine whether he violated federal insider trading laws by selling more than $1.6 million of shares before the 2020 stock market crash. Mr Burr had previously defended that all his investment decisions were based on news reports rather than non-public information.

Separately, the Fed announced in October that it would ban officials from owning individual stocks and bonds after the resignation of two Fed officials, Dallas Fed Chairman Kaplan and Boston Fed Chairman Rosengren, over allegations of insider trading.