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Post-Roaring Kitty: Meet the new class of day-traders attracting swaths of followers online

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New retail-trading icons say they've moved away from WallStreetBets.

Zach Kleinwaks and Kevin Xu say they're not the typical retail traders.

Kleinwak : "I was always a hustler. I would sell things on eBay . I kind of just fell upon the concept and the idea of day trading before it was big craze".

Vaughn McNair , a 31-year-old trader based in Illinois , is a husband and father of three .

He says he studies technical signals, volume spikes, short-term interest in a stock, and other indicators until he develops a thesis about a particular company.

McNair has around 10,000 members tuning into his trading tips on Discord , and around 40,000 subscribers on YouTube .

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