r/stocks

Stocks - Investing and trading for all

The most serious place on Reddit for Stock related discussions! Don't hesitate to tell us about a ticker we should know about, market news, or financial education. Check out our WIKI that has beginner & advanced topics on both investing & trading.

Members: 9,388,519
Created: 2008
Posts a day: 13
Avg comments, top posts this week: 145

r/stocks is a Reddit community with 9,388,519 members, created in 2008. It averaged about 13 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts had a median score of 231 and an average of 145 comments each. Stock, anthropic and market are the words that show up most in recent titles. This month's top posts went up most often around 12:00 UTC, and most often on a Thursday.

Only approved members can post in r/stocks.

Data checked October 18, 2026 · Open on Reddit

What people ask

693Anthropic: ~$145B raised, $2T IPO target. What profit makes that work?609 comments · October 10, 2026
521Can someone explain to me how the stock market is basically a separate entity from the economy?538 comments · October 5, 2026
336Best "Buy the Dip" Stocks This Week?446 comments · October 14, 2026
633Confused If Interest Rates are Expected to Hike and Increase, Why Are Stocks Rising and Going Up?365 comments · September 25, 2026
446Data shows that the 10-year Treasury yield is above 5.3% and crude oil prices are above $100, so why is the market sell-off so weak today?349 comments · October 7, 2026
1,168How is Samsung valued at $1T while Anthropic is looking to IPO at $2T?340 comments · October 15, 2026

Common words in titles

stock 7
anthropic 6
market 6
stocks 6
interest 4
off 4
buy 3
ceo 3
chip 3
coreweave 3
data 3
debt 3

Best time to post

12:00 UTC · 6 top posts
13:00 UTC · 3 top posts
20:00 UTC · 3 top posts
Thursday · 6 top posts
Friday · 5 top posts

These are counted from the timestamps of this month's 25 top posts. They show when popular posts went up and don't guarantee reach.

Rules

Disclose related positions
No spam or self-promotion
Context and Effort
No Robinhood posts
No trolling, insulting, or harassing
No cryptocoin discussions unrelated to stocks
No penny stock or OTC discussions
Stay on topic

How to post in r/stocks without breaking its rules

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Member growth

We started recording r/stocks member counts on October 18, 2026. Growth will show here once we have a few weeks of history.

Get this data from the API

Every number on this page comes from ChatterAPI's Reddit endpoints and is refreshed about once a week. You can pull the same data for any subreddit from your own code or AI agent.

curl "https://chatterapi.com/v1/reddit/subreddits/stocks" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHATTERAPI_KEY"

{
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/",
    "name": "stocks",
    "nsfw": false,
    "title": "Stocks - Investing and trading for all",
    "createdAt": "2008-06-27T08:43:43.000Z",
    "description": "The most serious place on Reddit for Stock related discussions!  Don't hesitate to tell us about a ticker we should know about, market news, or financial education.\n\nCheck out our WIKI that has beginner & advanced topics on both investing & trading.",
    "subscribers": 9388519
  },
  "credits": {
    "charged": 2
  }
}

Recorded response, October 18, 2026, trimmed.

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Questions about r/stocks

How many members does r/stocks have?

r/stocks had 9,388,519 members when we last checked on October 18, 2026.

How active is r/stocks?

Based on its newest posts, it got about 13 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts averaged 145 comments each.

When is the best time to post in r/stocks?

This month's top posts in r/stocks went up most often around 12:00 UTC, and most often on a Thursday. That's when popular posts were published, so use it as a starting point, not a rule.

Can I get r/stocks data through an API?

Yes. Call GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/stocks for members, rules and description, and GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/stocks/posts for its posts. Each call costs 2 credits, and new accounts get 100 free credits.