{"id":6811,"date":"2023-10-08T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:09:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:09:53","slug":"everybody-owns-tlt-nobody-owns-gld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/everybody-owns-tlt-nobody-owns-gld\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Owns\u00a0TLT, Nobody Owns GLD!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n Over the last two years, every "Fintwit" influencer<\/strong> who gives\n investment advice<\/strong><\/span> on Twitter\/X<\/strong> has been\n super bullish<\/strong><\/span> on\n iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)<\/strong>. According to Google Trends<\/strong>,\n search interest<\/strong><\/span> in TLT<\/strong> is\n up 10-fold<\/strong><\/span> over the last 24 months to\n new all-time highs<\/strong><\/span> vs.\n search interest<\/strong><\/span> in\n SPDR Gold Trust (GLD)<\/strong><\/span> being flat<\/strong> near\n historical lows<\/span><\/strong>. In recent weeks, there have been\n 7.69X more<\/span> searches<\/span><\/strong> for\n TLT<\/strong> than GLD<\/strong><\/span>.\n <\/p>\n\n \n

\n \"Google\n <\/div>\n\n

\n Since October 6, 2021, TLT<\/strong> has declined by 41.28%<\/strong><\/span>\n vs. GLD<\/span> increasing by 2.83%<\/span><\/strong>!\n <\/p>\n\n \n

\n \"Performance\n <\/div>\n\n

\n The iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)<\/strong> was launched in 2002 and during the first 18 years\n of its existence investors profited a cumulative $8.07 billion<\/strong><\/span>.\n However, since Fintwit influencers<\/strong> began pumping<\/span> TLT<\/strong>\n on social media, these $8.07 billion in profits<\/strong><\/span> have\n evaporated<\/strong><\/span> and TLT<\/strong> investors have now experienced\n cumulative losses<\/strong><\/span> of\n $11.18 billion<\/strong><\/span>. Retail investors<\/strong> have\n lost $19.25 billion<\/strong><\/span> on TLT<\/strong> in recent years!\n <\/p>\n\n \n

\n \"TLT\n <\/div>\n\n

\n Everybody owns<\/span> TLT<\/strong>!\n Nobody<\/span> owns<\/span> GLD<\/span><\/strong>!\n <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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Over the last two years, every "Fintwit" influencer who gives investment advice on Twitter\/X has been super bullish on iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT). According to Google Trends, search interest in TLT is up 10-fold over the last 24 months to new all-time highs vs. search interest in SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[245,28,9],"class_list":["post-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-bonds","tag-etfs","tag-gold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6816,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions\/6816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}