r/investing vs r/stocks
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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/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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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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Supported differences
| Aspect | r/investing | r/stocks |
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| Public focus (from each community’s public 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 incites resp… |
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 … |
| Size r/stocks is larger in our directory (about 2.7×). |
3.5M members |
9.4M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) |
20.9/day |
50/day |
| Common post types in our sample |
text posts 100% |
text posts 100% |
| Selected 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 |
Disclose related positions; No spam or self-promotion; Context and Effort; No Robinhood posts; No trolling, insulting, or harassing |
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.