About r/pennystocks
In its own words:
A place to lose money with friends and likewise degenerates. The posts and advice here should be taken with caution, this is not financial advice.
Community guide
r/pennystocks (#491, about 2.3 million) is a place to lose money with friends and likewise degenerates. The posts and advice here should be taken with caution, this is not financial advice. Collected rules highlight Only pennystocks are allowed. Pennystocks are defined as any stock under $5 within the last 14 days; Promoting ANY services, newsletters, or social media, is forbidden; and Artificially pumping tickers is forbidden, among 7 listed. Activity mix in sample: text:64, image:9, gallery:3, link:1. Moderate sample (~11.9 ppd across 77 posts).
Community focus
A place to lose money with friends and likewise degenerates. The posts and advice here should be taken with caution, this is not financial advice. Compared with adjacent topical subs, keep content inside this sub’s own boundaries.
Rules that shape posts
From the collected list: Only pennystocks are allowed. Pennystocks are defined as any stock under $5 within the last 14 days; Promoting ANY services, newsletters, or social media, is forbidden; Artificially pumping tickers is forbidden; Treat each other with respect. When a rule title is terse, assume the live wiki/sidebar has the detail.
Before you post
Check flair, spoiler, and self-promo norms. Moderate sample (~11.9 ppd across 77 posts). Submission setting notes: Submission type is open (text or link)..
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Dec 31, 2008, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 555 subscribers (+0.03%). It sits just behind r/Helldivers (#490) and ahead of r/Adulting (#492) in our ranking.
What sets r/pennystocks apart
r/pennystocks is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 83% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 34% across the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/pennystocks went up from 2,253,023 to 2,257,377 subscribers (+4.4K, +0.19%). That is about 99 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/pennystocks talks about
Looking at the titles of 77 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “stocks”, “penny”, “lounge”, “biggest” and “potential”. Other frequent themes are buy, nov, winners, losers, stock and hours. Recurring phrases include “penny stocks”, “biggest winners”, “biggest losers” and “nrx pharmaceuticals”. By format, 83% are text posts, 12% are images and 4% are galleries.
Popular post flairs: 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒐 :stonk: (23), :DDNerd: 🄳🄳 :DDNerd: (11), :Bagger: 𝗕𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 :Bullish: (10), :Bear: 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙝 :Bear: (3), 𝗢𝗧𝗖 :OTC: (2), :Bolt2: ꉓꍏ꓄ꍏ꒒ꌩꌗ꓄ :bolt: (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/pennystocks gets about 12 new posts a day. The public archive holds 259,636 posts and 3,355,477 comments in total, about 12.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (18 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (3). Posting peaks around 13:00 UTC and is lowest around 00:00 UTC.
Rules of r/pennystocks
The moderators of r/pennystocks list 7 rules. In short:
- Only pennystocks are allowed. Pennystocks are defined as any stock under $5 within the last 14 days.
- Promoting ANY services, newsletters, or social media, is forbidden.
- Artificially pumping tickers is forbidden
- Treat each other with respect.
- Low-effort, BROKER QUESTIONS, lack of DD, buy or sell?, thoughts? threads on the main sub are BANNED
- No memes or gain/loss posts except after market hours
- Posts require summary in body (not memes).
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/pennystocks 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 members does r/pennystocks have?
r/pennystocks has 2,257,377 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #491 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 4,354 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/pennystocks created?
r/pennystocks was created on Dec 31, 2008, so it has been around for 17 years.
Is r/pennystocks still active?
Yes. r/pennystocks gets about 12 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 259,636 posts and 3,355,477 comments. In a sample of 77 recent posts we counted 50 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/pennystocks?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 13:00 UTC, with the fewest around 00:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/pennystocks?
The community describes itself as: “A place to lose money with friends and likewise degenerates. The posts and advice here should be taken with caution, this is not financial advice.” Recent post titles often mention stocks, penny, lounge, biggest and potential. Most posts are text posts (83%).
Is r/pennystocks SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/pennystocks as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/pennystocks?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/pennystocks accepts both text and link posts, with images and galleries enabled. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “Only pennystocks are allowed. Pennystocks are defined as any stock under $5 within the last 14 days.”; “Promoting ANY services, newsletters, or social media, is forbidden.”; “Artificially pumping tickers is forbidden”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/pennystocks?
Communities with similar topics include r/investing (3.5M), r/loseit (4.2M), r/YouShouldKnow (5.6M), r/financialindependence (2.5M) and r/AdviceAnimals (9.9M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). 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/pennystocks.