The Ultimate FOMO Case Study

Imagine selling the same winning lottery ticket every year for four years straight. That's essentially what Pennsylvania Congressman Daniel Meuser has been doing with Nvidia (NVDA) stock, according to his latest financial disclosures.

Meuser just disclosed his first stock transactions of 2026, and guess what? More Nvidia sales. He sold between $1,000 and $15,000 in shares on January 14 and another $1,000 to $15,000 on January 30. Both transactions were executed by his spouse, which means the congressman might not have even known about them at the time.

The sales mark the continuation of a remarkable pattern. Meuser hasn't bought any new stocks in 2025 according to data from the MarketDash Government Trades tracker, only disclosing sales of several Magnificent Seven and large-cap holdings. His latest moves are his first disclosed transactions since February 2025.

A Four-Year Selling Spree

Here's where it gets interesting. Meuser has been methodically selling Nvidia shares every single year since 2022, consistently taking profits as the AI chipmaker became one of the world's most valuable companies. The stock is up more than 1,150% over the past five years, which makes this selling pattern either incredibly disciplined or painfully premature, depending on your perspective.

The complete sales history tells the story. Since January 2022, Meuser has disclosed selling over $1 million in Nvidia stock across a dozen separate transactions. His earliest sales happened on January 21, 2022, when he unloaded three separate positions totaling between $102,000 and $280,000. The stock's high that day? Just $25.58.

Fast forward to today, and Nvidia trades at $187.12. Those January 2022 sales missed out on gains of 631.5%. Even his more recent sales look rough in hindsight. He sold up to $1 million worth last October when the stock hit $122.24, and another $250,000 to $500,000 in February 2025 at a daily high of $134.48.

The complete timeline shows sales at every major price point along Nvidia's meteoric rise: $25.58 in early 2022, $28.75 and $40.29 in spring 2023, $43.80 that August, then $71.96, $108.80, $122.24, and $134.48 through 2024 and early 2025. Every single one of those prices looks cheap now.

The Trading Context

According to Quiver Quantitative data, Meuser sold $580,000 in stocks during 2025 with zero purchases. In 2024, he bought $1.13 million in stocks but sold $1.94 million, coming out net negative on his portfolio activity.

Worth noting: The congressman previously disclosed multiple February 2025 trades in August 2025, potentially violating the STOCK Act's reporting requirements.

The big mystery here is that Meuser hasn't disclosed any Nvidia purchases over the past four years. Without knowing when he originally bought the shares or at what price, we can't say for certain whether he's actually sitting on losses or just leaving gains on the table. Maybe he bought at $10 and is thrilled with his returns. Maybe he bought at $300 during a previous run-up. We simply don't know.

What we do know is that retail investors watch congressional trading activity closely, and this particular pattern stands out. Whether it represents smart profit-taking or missed opportunity depends entirely on information we don't have access to.