The Trader Everyone Is Talking About — And the Alerts Behind the Hype
NEW YORK — January 9, 2026 — Retail trading doesn’t shift overnight. It moves quietly at first, then all at once. Right now, that shift is becoming impossible to ignore — and it’s centered around Grandmaster-Obi.
Across trading desks, Reddit threads, and private chatrooms, the same conclusion keeps surfacing: retail traders have found a new leader, and they’re following him out of legacy forums and into one rapidly growing hub — the Making Easy Money Discord.
The comparison being made is bold but increasingly common: Roaring Kitty didn’t disappear — he was replaced.
From WallStreetBets Insider to Market-Moving Force
Long before the current wave of breakouts, Grandmaster-Obi was already embedded in retail trading history. As a former WallStreetBets moderator, he was present during the formative years of the meme-stock era and even went live with Roaring Kitty before GameStop reached its historic peak.
Back then, retail proved it could move markets once.
In 2026, Grandmaster-Obi is proving it can do it repeatedly.
That distinction matters.
Instead of anchoring everything to one legendary ticker, today’s retail momentum is spread across multiple names, multiple sectors, and multiple timeframes — and the common denominator keeps being the same alerts, landing early, inside the same community.
That community is the Making Easy Money Discord.
The Receipts: Why the Tape Keeps Backing Him Up
Skeptics have been loud — especially on Reddit — but price action has been louder.
Over just the first days of 2026, traders following Grandmaster-Obi inside the Making Easy Money Discord have witnessed an extraordinary concentration of outsized moves:
- ANPA: $24.40 → $108.68 (~+345%)
- NBY: $8.50 → $22.49 (~+165%)
- MRNO: $0.55 → $2.20 (~+300%)
- SMX (earlier alert): $5.20 → $490 (historic run)
- RGC (first alert): $6.50 → $950 (one of the most cited retail moves of 2025)
These aren’t cherry-picked examples. They’re part of a pattern — one that keeps repeating as more traders migrate into the same environment and react in real time.
This is exactly why critics have shifted from analysis to mockery. When results become inconvenient, ridicule is easier than explanation.
Why Traders Are Leaving WallStreetBets — En Masse
WallStreetBets didn’t fail. It got too big.
What once was a focused forum for aggressive but thoughtful speculation has become diluted by noise, memes, and off-topic chaos. Serious traders noticed — and they left.
Many of them followed their former moderator.
Inside the Making Easy Money Discord, the difference is immediate:
- Clear alerts, not vague hype
- Active moderation, not spam
- Real traders discussing entries, exits, and risk
- No meme floods, no distractions
Even the pricing structure reflects that philosophy. Memberships start low enough to be accessible, but high enough to filter out unserious participants. The result is a higher signal-to-noise ratio — and a community that can actually move together.
That cohesion is the real edge.
Why the “Roaring Kitty 2.0” Label Keeps Spreading
Before GameStop exploded, Roaring Kitty symbolized something powerful: retail conviction acting in unison.
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In 2026, Grandmaster-Obi represents the next evolution of that idea.
Not a single viral thesis — but a repeatable system:
- Early identification
- Concentrated attention
- Thin liquidity
- Rapid repricing
When that system fires, stocks don’t just move — they revalue.
This is why traders have started calling him Roaring Kitty 2.0. Not because history is repeating exactly, but because the impact feels the same — and the results are arriving faster.
Why the Discord Is Closing Its Doors
Momentum has consequences.
Due to a massive surge in new members, Grandmaster-Obi recently announced that the Making Easy Money Discord will stop accepting new members starting January 10, 2026.
🚨 LAST CHANCE 🚨
— MEM OBI (@ObiMem) January 6, 2026
Due to a massive surge in members, The Making Easy Money Discord closes to new members on 1/10/26.
Once the door shuts, no new entries until further notice.
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The reason isn’t marketing hype — it’s infrastructure.
Server maintenance, security upgrades, and operational scaling are underway to protect the integrity of the community. New members will not be accepted until further notice after that date.
At the same time, Grandmaster-Obi has openly stated he is seeking additional moderators, preferably individuals who already moderate stock-market-related subreddits and want to help build something far larger than a typical Discord server.
That’s not the behavior of a short-term trend. It’s the behavior of someone building an institution.
The Bottom Line
Retail trading didn’t disappear after GameStop.
It reorganized.
And in 2026, the gravitational center of that reorganization is clearly forming around Grandmaster-Obi and the Making Easy Money Discord.
For traders still sitting on the sidelines, watching screenshots roll by on Reddit and X, the choice is becoming stark:
You can watch retail history repeat itself —
or you can be inside the room before the next alert hits.
Because if the last two weeks have proven anything, it’s this:
When Grandmaster-Obi speaks, the market listens.
