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r/options vs r/investing

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Options trading room vs investing room

r/options focuses on exchange-traded financial options—fundamentals, Greeks, strategies and Q&A. r/investing wants investment ideas and thoughtful discussion, not personal-finance advice or politics.

In our directory, investing is larger (about 3.5M, rank #292) than options (about 1.4M, rank #733). Activity samples show investing posting more often (~21 posts/day vs ~12). Both samples are mostly text. investing sample flairs include Daily Discussion.

Rule titles: options steers new traders into a weekly safe-haven thread and bans low-effort screenshot/meme posts; investing bans personal-finance advice requests, low effort and solicitation. SubMouse already compares investing with stocks.

  • Choose r/options for options strategies and Greeks talk under its weekly-thread and detail rules.
  • Choose r/investing for broader portfolio and market discussion under its no-PF-advice rules.
  • investing is larger. investing-vs-stocks is a separate curated page.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/options

/r/Options

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

Members
1.4M
7-day growth
+823
Posts/day
11.6
Directory rank
#733
Created
Oct 3, 2009
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 80%, images 13%, galleries 6%

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • 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
  • No profanity in a post title
  • Posting karma points thresholds and Reddit user ID age

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r/investing

Lose money with friends!

Rules 1. No low effort posts. Share investment ideas and insights or ask thoughtful investing discussion questions. We are not a politics or general corporate news forum. We generally expect that your topic incites resp…

Members
3.5M
7-day growth
+3.5K
Posts/day
20.9
Directory rank
#292
Created
Mar 15, 2008
Submissions
Text posts

Sample mix: text posts 100%

Topics: Investing

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • No low effort posts
  • Do not make posts looking for personal finance advice.
  • Keep discussions civil, informative and polite.
  • Strictly no (self-)promotion or solicitation
  • General corporate news and political posts guidelines
  • Effort: Posts must meet standards of effort
  • Original Sourcing: articles posted must be from the orignal source on a best efforts basis
  • Good faith discussions and comments only

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About this community: r/investing (#292, about 3.5 million) wants investment ideas and thoughtful investing discussion—not politics or general corporate news dumps, and not personal-finance advice requests. Catalogue description: Rules 1. No low effort posts. Share investment ideas and insights or ask thoughtful investing discussion questions. We are not a politics or general corporate news forum. We generally expect that your topic inci…

Supported differences

Aspectr/optionsr/investing
Public focus (from each community’s public description) 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 Rules 1. No low effort posts. Share investment ideas and insights or ask thoughtful investing discussion questions. We are not a politics or general corporate news forum. We generally expect that your topic incites resp…
Size
r/investing is larger in our directory (about 2.4×).
 1.4M members 3.5M members
Posting activity (our sample) 11.6/day 20.9/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 80%, images 13%, galleries 6% text posts 100%
Allowed submission type (meta) Text or links Text posts
Topic tags on SubMouse n/a Investing
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) 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 low effort posts; Do not make posts looking for personal finance advice.; Keep discussions civil, informative and polite.; Strictly no (self-)promotion or solicitation; General corporate news and political posts guidelines

Rules and posting patterns we can verify

options short titles 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; 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.. Our sample mixes text with some images/galleries.

investing: No low effort posts; Do not make posts looking for personal finance advice.; Keep discussions civil, informative and polite.; Strictly no (self-)promotion or solicitation; General corporate news and political posts guidelines; Effort: Posts must meet standards of effort; Original Sourcing: articles posted must be from the orignal source on a best efforts basis; Good faith discussions and comments only. Our sample is text-forward.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Short titles only. Related curated page: investing-vs-stocks.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.

Comparisons we prepared

Hand-written explanations for pairs where the public descriptions and rules support a real distinction: