X, formerly known as Twitter, has emerged as a leading social community for discussing stocks and investing. People commonly share investing ideas, research and forward outlooks about individual stocks, sectors and the economy as a whole. The financial Twitter community, “FinTwit” for short, is a great place to find the bull/bear thesis for leading stocks, get insights into upcoming economic data and see people’s predictions about bigger societal trends such as artificial intelligence or electric vehicles.
As FinTwit has grown over the years, however, the quality of its commentary has become uneven; it can be an overwhelming experience trying to sort the wheat from the chaff. Following are 21 of the most compelling accounts on FinTwit that can offer insightful perspectives on a wide array of investing and economic topics.
Aswath Damodaran (@AswathDamodaran). Damodaran is a New York University finance professor who teaches corporate finance and equity valuation. On X, he posts about equity valuation, helping his followers think about how to price both individual stocks and the overall market. He’s also commented prominently on Tesla Inc.’s (ticker: TSLA) valuation, generating a vigorous debate over how to think about the electric vehicle producer’s stock price.
Eddy Elfenbein (@EddyElfenbein). Elfenbein is a Washington, D.C.-based portfolio manager. He was also one of the first prominent financial bloggers, starting his Crossing Wall Street publication many years ago. He continues to post market updates and financial news links on his blog. On his X account, Elfenbein offers links, quick takes and insights on breaking financial and investment news.
Matt Levine (@matt_levine). Levine is a Bloomberg opinion columnist who writes the “Money Stuff” newsletter. He was formerly an investment banker at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), and also a mergers and acquisitions lawyer. This gives him a wide-reaching perspective into the latest breaking financial and investment news stories. When anything exciting is happening with mergers, securities law, corporate fraud or the like, Levine will have a thoughtful and entertaining take about it on his X account and newsletter.
Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) and Tracy Alloway (@tracyalloway). Weisenthal and Alloway are the co-hosts of Bloomberg’s “Odd Lots” podcast. This is one of the best podcasts in the financial space, specifically because of the high-quality guests who offer timely insights about an exceptionally wide range of topics. For example, in the span of one recent week, the hosts produced episodes covering the Mexican manufacturing boom, AI’s dramatic impact on the power utility industry and the effects of prescription ADHD drug usage on the U.S. workforce. It’s quite the tour de force of financial knowledge. Both co-hosts are frequent tweeters and offer further insights about their podcast episodes, along with the broader economy.
Bill Brewster (@BillBrewsterTBB). Brewster is another great X account to follow in the financial podcast space. He has been running his “Business Brew” podcast for many years now. He’s an excellent networker, which has allowed him to host a wide-ranging field of guests, including public company executives, fund managers and industry experts. His X account offers compelling individual investment ideas, along with helping his followers find other great content and people to follow across FinTwit.
BuccoCapital Bloke (@buccocapital). Bucco is one of FinTwit’s more prominent voices. This account tends to tweet about software and technology, but it also covers broader investing topics as well. Bucco never takes things too seriously, always offering an entertaining meme or ironic take on the latest developments in the technology and investing landscape.
Citrini (@Citrini7). Citrini is a professional trader who focuses on being an early adopter to investment themes that can become megatrends. He burst into FinTwit prominence with his bold Silicon Valley Bank short position back in 2022. In early 2023, he was a loud proponent of buying both GLP-1 weight loss-related drug stocks and the tech companies that produce hardware and systems to power the AI revolution. Citrini has tons of memes and ironic takes, which insert some levity into his serious market analysis. Most recently, Citrini has began advocating for investments in the water industry, believing that there will be major investment opportunities in this space in coming years.
Michael Fritzell (Asian Century Stocks) (@MikeFritzell). Fritzell runs a newsletter devoted to opportunities in Asian stocks. His X account offers a great deal of statistics, research and on-the-ground data about developments in China, Japan and Southeast Asia. For investors looking to learn more about topics such as the Chinese electric vehicle industry or Asian travel, tourism and hospitality companies, Fritzell is a great account to follow.
Rod Alzmann (@RodAlzmann). Alzmann is a private investor who looks for value stock opportunities across a wide array of sectors. He frequently hosts X Spaces events that cover a wide variety of individual stocks and investment opportunities. Alzmann is also well known for being one of the leading voices for research and insights about GameStop Corp. (GME) shares during its 2021 short squeeze event. With GameStop shares once again skyrocketing this month, Alzmann is likely to have more unique perspectives on it and other leading meme trades in the weeks and months to come.
Canadian Dividend Investing (@CDInewsletter). Canadian Dividend Investing is a private investor focused on, as the name would suggest, Canadian income-paying securities. He retired from the corporate world at age 39 and now invests full-time. His writing is some of the most entertaining to be found in the investment space, and he shines a spotlight on a lot of smaller Canadian companies that might otherwise escape notice. For income investors looking to diversify their holdings with some quality picks from north of the border, Canadian Dividend Investing is a great choice.
ToffCap (@ToffCap). Toffcap is a fund manager who also writes an investing newsletter. Both the publication and X account focus on activist investing situations with near-term catalysts. ToffCap gives followers an excellent overview of current mergers and arbitrage situations, spin-offs and other unusual developments that can unlock catalyst-driven trading opportunities. For readers looking to explore the world of activist investments and special situation trading, ToffCap is a great follow.
Edwin Dorsey (@StockJabber). Dorsey is one of the most fascinating accounts in the FinTwit community. A Stanford graduate in the class of 2020, he has already built a newsletter business that brings in more than $500,000 annually. His main publication, The Bear Cave, highlights companies engaged in questionable business practices and whose stocks may be substantially overvalued. Dorsey shares plenty of good material with his followers on X as well, highlighting other people’s research and investigations in addition to his own work. Dorsey publishes numerous lists of people to follow, publications to read and so on, helping followers to expand their networks within the financial community.
Meb Faber (@MebFaber). Faber is the founder of Cambria Funds, a firm that operates a variety of unique exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Cambria’s products offer investors unique exposure to typically hard-to-access investing themes such as shareholder yield, tail risk and emerging-market value stocks. Faber holds some unorthodox investing views and often tweets out thought-provoking ideas that run contrary to the current market consensus.
Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas). Balchunas is another great follow in the ETF space. He is Bloomberg’s ETFs reporter and highlights new funds, fast-growing funds and regulatory developments in the space. Recently, for example, he has helped followers keep tabs on the flood of new ETFs tracking cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
Michael Green (@profplum99). Green is the chief strategist at Simplify Asset Management. He hosts X Spaces events discussing equity markets, in particular focusing on structural matters such as how volatility trading and passive indexing impact the overall stock market and people’s retirement portfolios. For investors wanting to learn more about new trends in the market, such as zero-day options, Green is a good source of information.
Lauren Balik (@laurenbalik). Balik is one of the newer FinTwit accounts that is now rapidly rising to prominence. She typically covers the software space and often highlights companies that appear to be overvalued or engaged in questionable behavior. Recent posts about questionable food safety practices at Cava Group Inc. (CAVA) are one such example of her unique research process. In addition to individual company ideas, she has solid big-picture insights into software industry economics and the impact AI may have on the field.
Lawrence Hamtil (@lhamtil). Hamtil is an advisor at Fortune Financial Advisors, a Kansas-based wealth management company. Discussion on X often tends to be dominated by New York or West Coast-based financial accounts. Hamtil offers insights from a different perspective. His investing style focuses on high-quality, blue-chip companies, and he has a treasure trove of information and graphics about industrial companies, consumer staples firms and defense contractors that often fly under the radar.
Logos LP (@Logos_LP). Logos is a Toronto-based private investment fund that aims to buy high-quality businesses at value prices. Logos is willing to invest across most sectors, hunting wherever bargains can be found in the market. Recently, that’s led Logos to focus heavily on the biotechnology and medical tools and devices space. For readers interested in next-generation medicine, Logos posts tons of data, studies and analyst insights about these developments. Logos is often one of the first X accounts to discover new technology trends, such as its early advocacy for quantum computing firm IonQ Inc. (IONQ) just before IONQ shares blasted off in 2023.
Johnathan Maze (@jonathanmaze). One of the best uses for X is finding industry experts that offer boots-on-the-ground intelligence on specific sectors. Johnathan Maze, editor-in-chief of Restaurant Business Magazine, is one great example. He loves the restaurant industry and frequently tweets about new menu items and business trends at leading American chains. And when big industry news hits, such as the recent Red Lobster bankruptcy filing tied to its infamous all-you-can-eat shrimp promotion, Maze has the juicy details on what happened and what it means for the industry more broadly.
Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier). Schreier is a Bloomberg reporter covering the video game industry. He has written three deeply reported books about the industry and is full of candid stories and scoops from within the major game publishers. For anyone interested in gaming stocks – and for gamers and nostalgia fans in general – Schreier is a tremendous account to follow.
