He has a stable of followers who day trade alongside him, as does Matt Kohrs, another retail investor who streams on YouTube to the 116,000 subscribers he calls the “Moon Gang.”įinancial YouTubers and Twitch streamers were popular before the GameStop saga and the pandemic sent the stock market spiraling, but these events have catapulted them to even greater fame. It just kept growing and growing.”įrank is one of a growing cadre of financial streamers on Twitch and YouTube who captivate massive audiences. I guess it was the way I explained things and the humor. “I'm not like a guru that you should follow, but it's fun. “I make it very clear that I'm just some cowboy speculative trader,” Frank says. Fans call him “stocky,” poke fun at his receding hairline, and sincerely thank him for helping them get into personal finance.
That audience translates to YouTube ( 35,000 subscribers), Twitter ( 36,000 followers), and his own subreddit with the tagline “this ain’t your dad’s stock show” ( 6,000 members).
As he told his followers in one video, Frank grew up in a “shack in Hawaii with no electricity or running water.” As a child, he scrounged food from dumpsters and was in and out of group homes.įrank tells Inverse he never thought streaming would end up becoming his full-time job, but a combination of global disaster, a unique approach to financial education, and an uptick in people interested in the stock market has turned TheStockGuy into a powerhouse financial streamer on Twitch. He bills himself as someone with a “nerdy” interest in finance and economics, and his origin story is about as far from Wall Street as you can get. This January, they watched with him as online traders organized on Reddit’s r/WallStreetbets orchestrated a short squeeze that may ultimately cost hedge funds billions of dollars.įrank has livestreamed his investing strategy and market analysis since August 2018, but he’s no Bloomberg analyst. By the time of writing, some 112,000 people have watched the video.įrank and his longtime fans watched the stock market crash alongside the rise of Covid-19. YouTube/TheStockGuyĪbout a year ago, Frank had a few thousand followers. Frank is one of a growing cadre of financial streamers on Twitch and YouTube who captivate massive audiences.
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