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He left MassMutual in late January and is no longer a broker registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

Galvin's office said that MassMutual has told regulators it was unaware of Gill's outside activities. While trading in GameStop, Gill worked at MassMutual in a marketing and financial education job and was a registered financial broker in Massachusetts. 18 that he remained 'as bullish as I've ever been on a potential turnaround for GameStop.' House Committee on Financial Services on Feb.

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Gill, 34, began sharing his positions on Reddit's popular Wallstreetbets trading forum in September 2019, posting a portfolio screenshot indicating he had invested $53,000 in GameStop.īy late January, Gill, known as 'Roaring Kitty' on YouTube and 'DeepF***ingValue' on Reddit, was up over 4,000% on stock and options investments in the company, with his GameStop position plus cash worth nearly $48 million, according to his Reddit posts. 'Just retire a legend and go off grid.William Taylor, Gill's attorney at Zuckerman Spaeder, declined to comment. 'He made the history books,' wrote one Reddit user with the handle zammai. In his last April 16 post on WallStreetBets, Gill shared screen shots showing he had exercised call options on GameStop to acquire 50,000 more shares in the retailer, sparking thousands of comments lauding the punchy move. 2021, Gill was up over 4,000% on stock and options in the company, with his GameStop position plus cash worth nearly $48 million, according to his posts. The Roaring Kitty channel revolves around educational live streams where I share my daily routine of tracking stocks and performing investment research.The R. Gill began sharing his positions on WallStreetBets in September 2019, posting a screenshot indicating he had invested $53,000 in GameStop. 'It might be too early to determine whether that was simply a fad that has now run its course, or whether it represents a fundamental alteration of market practice.' Yet he said his fanatical following among retail traders appeared to be based on 'tribal identity' rather than economics, and was troubling. Howard Fischer, a partner at law firm Moses & Singer, said it remained unclear whether Gill broke any laws. Securities and Exchange Commission declined to comment on whether it was probing, or ever had probed, Gill's actions. “What I expect to see going forward is social media personalities making money by driving prices in one direction or another - not necessarily in the magnitude that we had.' Mitts said the meme stock rally was driven by an unusual combination of factors: an army of new retail traders, easy money thanks to pandemic stimulus and low interest rates, and Gill's purportedly massive and consistent profits. ExMassMutual marketer by day, red-headbanded Wall Street warrior by night, Keith Gill was the poster boy for 2021s. 'We’ve learned just what someone like that can do to the market and to investors,' said Joshua Mitts, an associate professor at Columbia Law School who has researched the use of social media to influence stocks. GME’s mastermind, Keith Gill AKA Roarking Kitty (deepfvalue), has also mentioned doubling down on GameStop investment. 'I was abundantly clear that my channel was for educational purposes only, and that my aggressive style of investing was unlikely to be suitable for most folks,' he told lawmakers, adding his investment thesis focused purely on GameStop's fundamentals. Roaring Kitty Endorses GameStop: I Like the Stock By. Note: Before roaring kitty blew up as the analyst for GME, only a handful of people followed him through and reaped the rewards. Gill did not respond to requests for comment.īut in testimony last year to Congress, he denied the notion that he used social media to profit by promoting GameStop to unwitting investors. The last tweet from his handle, a video of a kitten, was on June 18, 2021.Ī public records search indicates Gill has no new business ventures. Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty on YouTube and DeepFingValue on Reddit, is no longer a registered financial broker as of Feb.

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His last posts on WallStreetBets via his ‘DeepF**ingValue’ handle and his Roaring Kitty YouTube stream were on April 16, 2021. The Massachusetts financial professional who gained notoriety as GameStop bull 'Roaring Kitty' is no longer a broker registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, according to the organization's online records. Gill faded away almost as quickly as he shot to fame. Gill and other traders and financial executives were grilled in the U.S. The furious rally in GameStop and other 'memestocks' burned hedge funds, rocked Wall Street and drew scrutiny from state and federal regulators.

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