If you asked Ariel Itzhak what the best decision he has ever made is, he would say copying Nancy Pelosi’s stock trades.

The former Speaker of the House has garnered a meme-like reputation among retail investors over the years as the most successful stock trader on Capitol Hill. The success of her trades, which aren’t placed directly by Pelosi but by her husband, Paul Pelosi, inspired Itzhak to start copying the options bets.

Originally a crypto trader, Itzhak found himself drawn to copy Pelosi after she disclosed an Nvidia options play a few years ago. Over a two-year period, copying Pelosi and members of the Trump administration helped boost his portfolio by nearly 150% to over $1.1 million, a figure…