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r/stocks vs r/investing

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Investment ideas room vs stock-ticker discussion

r/investing’s directory text stresses sharing investment ideas or thoughtful questions and says it is not a politics or general corporate-news forum. r/stocks presents itself as a serious place for stock-related discussion—tickers, market news and financial education—with a beginner-to-advanced wiki.

In our directory, stocks is larger (about 9.4M, rank #83) than investing (about 3.5M, rank #292). Activity samples show stocks posting more often (~50 posts/day vs ~21). Both samples are text-forward. Our directory lists stocks on investing’s related list and investing on stocks’ related list.

Rule titles reinforce effort and disclosure: investing bans low-effort posts, personal financial-advice shopping and self-promotion; stocks requires disclosing related positions, bans penny/OTC and off-topic crypto, and demands context and effort.

  • Use r/investing for idea- and insight-driven investing discussion that meets its effort rules.
  • Use r/stocks for ticker talk, company/industry news and market questions under its disclosure rules.
  • investing is outside the current Top 100 cut (info tool); stocks is inside the live Top window.

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

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 …

Members
9.4M
7-day growth
+4.3K
Posts/day
50
Directory rank
#83
Created
Jun 27, 2008
Submissions
Text posts

Sample mix: text posts 100%

Topics: Investing

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • 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

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About this community: r/stocks ranks #83 on SubMouse’s SFW Top list (about 9.4 million subscribers in the directory). Catalogue framing: 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… Moderation themes that shape the room include: Disclose related positions; Context and Effo…

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/stocksr/investing
Public focus (from each community’s public 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. Check out our WIKI that has beginner & advanced topics … 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/stocks is larger in our directory (about 2.7×).
 9.4M members 3.5M members
Posting activity (our sample) 50/day 20.9/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 100% text posts 100%
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) Disclose related positions; No spam or self-promotion; Context and Effort; No Robinhood posts; No trolling, insulting, or harassing 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

What they share

  • Shared SubMouse topics: Investing
  • Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.

Rule titles that steer the traffic

r/investing short titles include: no low effort posts; do not make posts looking for personal financial advice; keep discussions civil and informative; no self-promotion; limits on general corporate news and political posts; effort and original sourcing standards; good-faith discussion.

r/stocks: disclose related positions; no spam or self-promotion; context and effort; no Robinhood posts; no trolling; no cryptocoin discussions unrelated to stocks; no penny stock or OTC discussions; stay on topic. Our stocks sample shows flairs such as company discussion, company news and advice request.

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. Mutual related-list links. Short titles only.

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: