About r/finance
In its own words:
Welcome to r/Finance! No Personal Finance, Homework, Personal blogs, or Career-related posts. All questions go in Monday Morning catch-all threads.
Community guide
r/finance (#521, about 2.1 million subscribers) — No Personal Finance, Homework, Personal blogs, or Career-related posts. All questions go in Monday Morning catch-all threads. Recent phrase samples include “building wealth”, “real estate”, “listing cat”, “wall street”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Conversation lately clusters around building wealth, real estate, listing cat, wall street.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change.
The community was created on Mar 13, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 1,023 subscribers (+0.05%). It sits just behind r/tennis (#520) and ahead of r/HouseOfTheDragon (#522) in our ranking.
What sets r/finance apart
People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 2.2 comments per post, against 13.0 for a typical large subreddit.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/finance climbed from 2,139,093 to 2,146,859 subscribers (+7.8K, +0.36%). That is about 152 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/finance this week
What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 7, 2026).
- Sea of Red: Tech sector facing major selloff as chip giants SpaceX (-6.95%), AMD (-11.6%), Tesla (-9.66%), and Micron (-9.32%) lead massive market dropu/DumbMoneyMedia · Nov 5 · image
- Stock market today: Dow plunges 1,800 points, Nasdaq enters correction in AI trade meltdownu/Travis_Miller · Nov 5 · link
- De-Dollarization and the Status of the US Dollaru/HooverInstitution · Nov 4 · link
- THE BUFFETT AND MUNGER MINDSET: Why Patience Beats Action: Warren Buffett’s No-Strike Zone Strategyu/No-Pride-8979 · Nov 5 · link
- AI Trade, Alphabet, Meta Lose Steam As Medical And Energy Sectors Attract Investorsu/Raw_Rain · Nov 6 · link
- Big Day for Econ Data, Hyperscaler Earningsu/Raw_Rain · Nov 6 · link
- Moronic Monday - November 02, 2026 - Your Weekly Questions Threadu/AutoModerator · Nov 2 · text post
- Market share per Provider (API only). Anthropics IPO is looking real real bad...u/thedarkpath · Nov 5 · image
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/finance, from 2020 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- Bipartisan bill would ban lawmakers from buying, selling stocksMar 3, 2021 · link
- Wall st short-sellers lost $1.6 billion in a single day as Reddit traders rebelled against themu/DanPlaysMusic · Jan 26, 2021 · link
- Donald Trump Plans 10% Tariffs on China Goods, 25% on Mexico and Canadau/theykilledk3nny · Nov 26, 2024 · link
- Robinhood, Interactive Brokers restrict trading in GameStop stock and optionsu/_hiddenscout · Jan 28, 2021 · link
- The US is considering a sovereign wealth fund. Alaska already has one, and it's funding a universal basic income.u/cuspofgreatness · Sep 14, 2024 · link
- Powell confirms that the Fed would have cut by now were it not for tariffsu/Constant_Falcon_2175 · Jul 1, 2025 · link
- U.S. Airlines Ask for Bailout as They Spent 96% of Free Cash Flow on Buybacks from 2010-2019u/mol_lon · Mar 17, 2020 · 4,345 points · 740 comments · link
- AP News: Live updates: European Union freezes assets of Putin, Lavrovu/Motor-Ad-8858 · Feb 25, 2022 · 4,193 points · 201 comments · link
- Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell.u/AfricanMan_Row905 · Jan 12, 2026 · video
- Elizabeth Warren urges regulators to block Capital One’s takeover of Discoveru/BostonSubwaySlut · Feb 21, 2024 · link
What r/finance talks about
Across 38 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “wealth”, “wall”, “exchange”, “model” and “decisions”. Other frequent themes are built, building, protecting, planning, actually and eventually. Recurring phrases include “building wealth”, “real estate”, “listing cat” and “wall street”. By format, 34% are links, 32% are images and 24% are videos.
Activity and best time to post
The public archive holds 285,299 posts and 613,731 comments in total, about 2.2 comments per post.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/finance 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 many subscribers does r/finance have?
r/finance has 2,146,859 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #521 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 7,766 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
When was r/finance created?
r/finance was created on Mar 13, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Mar 18, 2008.
Is r/finance still active?
Over its lifetime the archive counts 285,299 posts and 613,731 comments.
What kind of posts are on r/finance?
The community describes itself as: “Welcome to r/Finance! No Personal Finance, Homework, Personal blogs, or Career-related posts. All questions go in Monday Morning catch-all threads.” Recent post titles often mention wealth, wall, exchange, model and decisions. Most posts are links (34%).
Is r/finance SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/finance as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/finance?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/finance accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images, videos and galleries enabled. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/finance?
Communities with similar topics include r/FinancialCareers (1.8M), r/PersonalFinanceCanada (1.9M), r/personalfinance (21.9M), r/povertyfinance (3M) and r/UKPersonalFinance (1.9M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). 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/finance.