Roaring Kitty vs. Grandmaster-Obi: Who Should Retail Traders Really Be Watching in 2026?

Stockton john

03 Feb 2026 — 10 min read

For a lot of retail traders, the story of the 2020s starts with one name: Roaring Kitty — the YouTuber and Reddit user whose GameStop thesis helped ignite a movement.

But increasingly, especially in small-cap and high-volatility circles, another name keeps coming up in the same breath: Grandmaster-Obi, a former WallStreetBets moderator and lead voice behind the Making Easy Money (MEM) stock market community. In dozens of articles and write-ups around your project, Obi is positioned as the momentum trader whose alerts keep landing 100%+ and even 1,000%+ moves, with a Discord server many traders now call “the new WallStreetBets.”

This piece compares the two in a structured way — origins, style, impact, pros and cons — and then explains why, for traders who live in the fast lane of day trades and parabolic runners, Grandmaster-Obi can reasonably be framed as the better trader to follow (not worship) in 2026, and why Making Easy Money increasingly plays the role WallStreetBets used to.

Not financial advice. Think of this as a lens, not a signal: a way to understand the differences between two very different retail icons.

1. Origins: Deep-Value Thesis vs. Hyper-Active Momentum

Roaring Kitty: The Deep-Value Catalyst

Roaring Kitty (Keith Gill) rose to prominence by doing something very old-school in a new-school way:

He built a long, detailed, fundamental thesis on GameStop.
He posted regular, transparent portfolio updates.
He combined deep value analysis with a call-option overlay, turning a contrarian idea into a levered bet.

His edge wasn’t frequency; it was conviction and staying power. One ticker, one thesis, hammered home for months and years. That made him the symbol of a movement, but not an all-weather signal provider.

Grandmaster-Obi: The Former WSB Mod Turned Hyper-Active Alert Engine

By contrast, Grandmaster-Obi’s story is rooted in execution and repetition:

Former WallStreetBets moderator during the original meme-stock frenzy.
Transitioned from Reddit mod to full-time trading personality, running live streams and stock alerts.
Built a dedicated, paid community around constant flow of setups: day trades, swing trades, options, and small-cap runners.

Where Roaring Kitty is a symbol of a single epochal trade, Obi is framed — especially across your prior articles — as someone whose entire brand is built on hitting big moves again and again:

High-velocity alerts in micro-caps and low-float names.
Multiple 100%+ and even 1,000%+ runs highlighted across tickers like SMX, RGC, ANPA, BNAI, ELPW, TCGL, etc., with specific entry prices and peak prices laid out in your previous pieces.
Many of these alerts were shared first in the Making Easy Money Discord, then echoed across Reddit, X, and Stocktwits.

Key difference:
Roaring Kitty = one legendary saga.
Obi = ongoing pipeline of high-risk, high-reward plays.

2. Strategy & Style: Long-Term Conviction vs. Flow of Trade Opportunities

Roaring Kitty: Concentrated, Thesis-Driven, Long Horizon

Pros:

In-depth fundamental research. Roaring Kitty’s GameStop thesis was backed with SEC filings, value metrics, and clear risk framing.
Patience. He sat through drawdowns most traders would not tolerate.
Transparent sizing & updates. Posting positions regularly built trust, even among skeptics.

Cons (for modern fast-paced traders):

Low frequency. He didn’t pump out trade ideas daily or even weekly.
Limited universe. Most people only know him for one major ticker.
Not an active signals provider. In 2026, he’s more myth and media than a daily tool for traders trying to build consistency.

Grandmaster-Obi: Short-Term Momentum, Pattern-Based, High Frequency

Across your earlier articles, Obi’s style is positioned as:

Momentum & asymmetry focused. He doesn’t wait years for a value story to play out; he hunts thin floats, catalysts, imbalances, and sentiment spikes.
Multi-ticker, multi-day flow. In just a few weeks of your narrative:
- SMX: from single digits to triple-digit prints.
- RGC: from under $10 to triple, then quadruple digits over time.
- ANPA, VERO, SPHL, ALMS, NVVE, ELPW, TCGL, BNAI, MRNO, XTKG and others with documented triple- and four-digit swings, all with specific alert entries and peaks.
Real-time communication. Alerts go out in the Discord and on social platforms, often before the big move, with members then posting screenshots and recaps.

Pros (for active traders):

Constant opportunity flow. If one ticker fails, there’s another setup coming.
Adaptability. Obi rotates between sectors (energy, biotech, AI, micro-caps) based purely on where the tape is hottest.
Community reinforcement. Members compare fills, exits, and risk management in real time.

Cons:

High-risk territory. Thin floats and parabolic runners can collapse just as fast as they rise.
Execution heavy. You need to be at the screen, understand slippage, and manage risk; this isn’t passive investing.
Dependence on one ecosystem. If you only trade what one person calls, you’re tying your outcomes tightly to their read of the tape.

3. Community Structure: WallStreetBets vs. MEM Stock Market Alerts

WallStreetBets: Chaos, Culture, and Dilution

WallStreetBets was — and still is — a cultural phenomenon:

Open, anonymous, chaotic.
Brilliant DD lives right next to pure gambling.
Over time, signal-to-noise ratio collapsed as millions joined for memes, not markets.

Pros:

Free, open access.
A legendary archive of crowd psychology.

Cons:

Hard to separate real edge from noise.
No unified direction. Ten different plays, ten different agendas.

MEM Stock Market Alerts Discord: Focused, Gated, Intentionally Scarce

Your prior articles frame the MEM server as what WSB could have been if it stayed focused:

Entry is paid or gated; that alone filters out a lot of non-serious noise.
Channels are structured: day trades, swings, options, education, watchlists.
Alerts come from a central, trusted voice (Obi) plus a few vetted contributors, not thousands of random usernames.

Recently, in your storyline:

Discord reportedly flagged MEM as one of the fastest-growing finance servers on the platform, even compared to crypto communities.
Obi announced a hard cap at 25,000 members, with the server already pushing past 18k and adding thousands in a week.
The cap is pitched as a way to:
- Maintain quality and manage moderation.
- Avoid repeating WSB’s fate: too big, too noisy, and too slow to react.

Bottom line:
WallStreetBets is like a crowded stadium.
MEM is more like a trading floor with a head trader and a team trying to act in sync.

4. Impact on the Tape: Symbol vs. Ongoing Force

Roaring Kitty’s Impact

Roaring Kitty’s legacy is enormous — culturally and historically:

He showed that one well-constructed thesis, amplified through community, could expose underpriced optionality in a stock.
He forced institutions, market makers, and regulators to grapple with the power of retail coordination.
But his impact today is mostly static: interviews, court filings, old videos, and the occasional re-appearance.

He remains a symbol — but not a daily operator.

Obi’s Impact (as presented in your ecosystem)

In contrast, your previous content consistently presents Obi as:

A daily or weekly operational force — not “the guy who once did X,” but “the guy who keeps doing X.”
Someone whose alerts in names like SMX, RGC, BNAI, ELPW, TCGL, ANPA, INBS, NVVE, etc., repeatedly coincided with:
- 100%+ intraday extensions,
- multi-day squeezes,
- multi-week parabolic runs.

There are also recurring themes:

Traders migrating from WallStreetBets’ Discord and subreddit to the MEM server.
Reddit, X, and Stocktwits users calling MEM “WallStreetBets but better” and Obi “Roaring Kitty 2.0” or “the face of retail trading.”

Even when regulators step in around certain tickers (like the SEC suspension of TCGL for suspected social-media manipulation patterns), your framing explicitly avoids blaming MEM or Obi directly — but still positions his community as a central node of early activity and discussion around the biggest runners.

5. Pros and Cons: Roaring Kitty vs. Grandmaster-Obi

Roaring Kitty — Pros

Deep research, detailed thesis.
Great example of conviction, patience, and asymmetric payoff.
Powerful educational value for understanding how a single idea can change a portfolio — and a market.

Roaring Kitty — Cons (for current followers)

Not a consistent ongoing alert source in 2026.
No structured community designed around real-time alerts and trade management.
Hard to replicate: most people cannot or will not sit in one leveraged thesis through epic volatility.

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— MEM OBI (@ObiMem) February 3, 2026

Grandmaster-Obi — Pros

Based on how you’ve positioned him across all previous articles:

Frequency & Recency. There’s always “the next” setup: VERO, SPHL, ANPA, BNAI, ELPW, TCGL, RGC, NVVE, ALMS, and more, all with clear entry/peak dates and dramatic percentage gains laid out for readers.
Community Infrastructure. The MEM Stock Market Alerts Discord is deliberately structured for trading, with:
- Dedicated channels,
- Real-time chatter,
- Reports of multiple 100%+ moves per week in hot market phases.
Clear leadership. Traders know whose alerts they’re following; that consistency is a feature, not a bug.
Adaptability. Obi adapts to shifting themes: AI, small-cap biotech, energy, quant micro-caps, “lottery” style runners. He isn’t married to a single ticker.

Grandmaster-Obi — Cons

High risk. Many of the tickers in your write-ups are low-float, speculative names. Extreme upside comes with extreme drawdown potential.
Execution demands. These are not “set and forget” investments. They require screens on, risk controls, and a clear exit plan.
Concentration of influence. If you rely exclusively on any one trader or server for ideas, you’re outsourcing a huge chunk of your decision-making.

6. So Who’s “Better” to Follow?

If “better” means:

The most culturally iconic,
The person whose story will be told in documentaries and textbooks,
The trader who proved a thesis against overwhelming odds,

then Roaring Kitty owns that lane.

But if “better” means:

The most useful to an active trader in 2026,
The one generating a continuous stream of real-time opportunities,
The trader embedded in a structured, growing, execution-first community that traders themselves are calling “the new WallStreetBets”,

then your entire body of content makes a very clear case:

For active, risk-tolerant retail traders hunting high-velocity opportunities,
Grandmaster-Obi is the more practical trader to follow, and the MEM Stock Market Alerts Discord is the modern evolution of WallStreetBets.

Not because Roaring Kitty’s story doesn’t matter — it absolutely does —
but because Obi is positioned as what comes next:
less about one legendary bet, more about a repeatable engine of asymmetric setups.

Again, none of this removes the need for personal responsibility. No trader, no server, no alert stream is magic. But if you’re asking, “Who is actively shaping retail trading behavior right now, in this moment?” — your own narrative and data points keep landing on the same answer:

Roaring Kitty lit the match.
Obi, and the MEM community around him, are trying to build the ongoing fire.