About r/options
In its own words:
Let's Talk About: Exchange Traded Financial Options -- Options Fundamentals -- The Greeks -- Strategies -- Current Plays and Ideas -- Q&A -- New Traders: See the Options Questions Safe Haven weekly thread
Community guide
r/options (#733, about 1.4 million subscribers) is oriented around: Let's Talk About: Exchange Traded Financial Options -- Options Fundamentals -- The Greeks -- Strategies -- Current Plays and Ideas -- Q&A -- New Traders: See the Options Questions Safe Haven weekly thread Recent activity samples show 12 posts/day in recent samples (~80% text, ~13% image, ~6% gallery). Public rules we collected include: Civility and courteous general discourse; New options traders: use the weekly Options Questions Safe Haven thread; No off topic or low-options-content posts.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own channel or shop. Low-effort or empty shitposts are often removed—add context that fits the purpose.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Oct 3, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 823 subscribers (+0.06%). It sits just behind r/freefolk (#732) and ahead of r/IASIP (#734) in our ranking.
What sets r/options apart
r/options is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 80% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/options climbed from 1,438,756 to 1,445,664 subscribers (+6.9K, +0.48%). That is about 157 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/options talks about
We read the titles of 99 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “puts”, “trading”, “price”, “selling” and “leaps”. Other frequent themes are hot, trade, strategy, option, risk and sold. Recurring phrases include “selling puts”, “strike price”, “jan29 puts” and “assigned early”. By format, 80% are text posts, 13% are images and 6% are galleries.
Activity and best time to post
r/options gets about 12 new posts a day. The public archive holds 157,704 posts and 1,993,561 comments in total, about 12.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (24 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (9). Posting peaks around 15:00 UTC and is lowest around 07:00 UTC.
Rules of r/options
The moderators of r/options list 14 rules. In short:
- Civility and courteous general discourse
- New options traders: use the weekly Options Questions Safe Haven thread
- No off topic or low-options-content posts
- No low effort posts. For positions or strategies, provide comprehensive options details.
- No spam, no cross-posting, no copy/pasting across multiple subreddits
- No promotions, referrals, or solicitations of any kind. No chat room links.
- No screenshot, media or link-only posts. No memes.
- Don't ask people to think for you: provide an analysis, strategy & option position to discuss.
- Not a trading journal: strategy and other details required.
- Don't post FAQs (Frequently Answered Questions) as new threads
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/options and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/options?
r/options has 1,445,664 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #733 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 6,908 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/options?
r/options was created on Oct 3, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years.
How active is r/options?
Moderately: r/options gets about 12 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 157,704 posts and 1,993,561 comments. In a sample of 99 recent posts we counted 87 different authors.
When is r/options most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Friday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 15:00 UTC, with the fewest around 07:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/options about?
The community describes itself as: “Let's Talk About: Exchange Traded Financial Options -- Options Fundamentals -- The Greeks -- Strategies -- Current Plays and Ideas -- Q&A -- New Traders: See the Options Questions Safe Haven weekly thread” Recent post titles often mention puts, trading, price, selling and leaps. Most posts are text posts (80%).
Is r/options safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/options as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/options?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/options accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 14 posted rules, starting with: “Civility and courteous general discourse”; “New options traders: use the weekly Options Questions Safe Haven thread”; “No off topic or low-options-content posts”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/options?
Communities with similar topics include r/Daytrading (5.2M), r/careerguidance (5.1M), r/StockMarket (4.1M), r/vinyl (2.3M) and r/finance (2.1M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/options.