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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Supported differences
| Aspect | r/options | r/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.