{"id":6821,"date":"2023-10-20T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/?p=6821"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:23:23","slug":"fintwit-influencer-bought-puts-in-gold-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/fintwit-influencer-bought-puts-in-gold-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"FinTwit Influencer Bought Puts in Gold Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- MOBILE-FRIENDLY WRAPPER -->\n<div style=\"font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:1.55; color:#000; width:100%; max-width:100%;\">\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 14px 0; color:#000;\">\n    Similar to how every know-it-all <strong>FinTwit financial influencer<\/strong> on Twitter has\n    <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">encouraged people to buy<\/span> iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)<\/strong>\n    for the past year, these <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>same exact people<\/strong><\/span> have been\n    <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>talking negatively<\/strong><\/span> about\n    <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\"><strong>gold<\/strong><\/span> and\n    <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\"><strong>gold mining stocks<\/strong><\/span> 24\/7.\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 14px 0; color:#000;\">\n    A <strong>FinTwit financial influencer<\/strong> on Twitter,\n    <strong>&quot;SantiagoAuFund&quot;<\/strong>, who describes himself as a\n    <strong>&quot;long term <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\">Gold<\/span>\n    <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">mega bull<\/span>&quot;<\/strong>,\n    <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>tweeted<\/strong><\/span> on October 13th:\n  <\/p>\n\n  <!-- IMAGE -->\n  <div style=\"margin:0 0 14px 0; text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\"\n      src=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/goldminerputs.jpg\"\n      alt=\"Tweet discussing bearish view on gold miners\"\n      style=\"display:block; width:100%; max-width:700px; height:auto; margin:0 auto; border:0; outline:none;\"\n    \/>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 14px 0; color:#000;\">\n    This is the <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>mindset<\/strong><\/span> of\n    <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>millions<\/strong><\/span> of\n    <strong><span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">uneducated<\/span> people<\/strong> outside of\n    <strong>NIA\u2019s <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">educated<\/span> membership base<\/strong>!\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0; color:#000;\">\n    This is why <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>nobody<\/strong><\/span> has invested yet into\n    <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\"><strong>gold<\/strong><\/span> or\n    <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\"><strong>gold stocks<\/strong><\/span>. Everybody\n    <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">invested into<\/span> TLT<\/strong> instead due to\n    <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>horrific<\/strong><\/span> takes like this that literally make no sense.\n    This person is supposed to be a\n    <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>highly respected<\/strong><\/span> <strong>expert<\/strong> on Twitter\/X,\n    and he clearly <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>knows nothing<\/strong><\/span> about anything.\n    This is who people have been listening to.\n  <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to how every know-it-all FinTwit financial influencer on Twitter has encouraged people to buy iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) for the past year, these same exact people have been talking negatively about gold and gold mining stocks 24\/7. A FinTwit financial influencer on Twitter, &quot;SantiagoAuFund&quot;, who describes himself as a &quot;long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[245,28,9],"class_list":["post-6821","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\/6821","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=6821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6824,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6821\/revisions\/6824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}