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Was wondering if SEC attorneys are allowed to trade individual securities, so long as trades are disclosed internally and the securities in question are unrelated to an enforcement action you're staffed on? Or is the securities trading policy more restrictive than that? I know some in Congress proposed a 6 month waiting rule / no individual securities / no day-trading, but I couldn't find the actual, current set of rules on this topic (perhaps not available to non-personnel). I trade as frequently as a couple of times a week on certain stocks/derivatives as a hobby, and wondering if I would have to stop trading all securities, altogether, if I accepted an offer. Thanks in advance.

I trade as frequently as a couple of times a week on certain stocks/derivatives as a hobby

Whether it's explicitly against the rules or not, this sounds incompatible with working at the SEC. Reporting/clearing everything sounds like a nightmare. I'm pretty sure that derivatives (or other instruments that could give short exposure) are intrinsically verboten.