r/investing

Lose money with friends!

Founded March 2008 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 10

# 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 responses relating to investing. Any post that contains large amounts of Gen AI text is considered low-effort. **2. Do not make posts looking for advice about your personal situation.** If your question likely has a "right answer", a beginner topic, you simply need help find

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+18K members · ≈32d

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Tracking since Aug 9 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

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How many members does r/investing have?

r/investing has 3,457,126 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 10. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/investing growing?

Over the last ≈32 days r/investing changed by +0.5% — a gain of 18K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

How active is r/investing?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/investing yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

When was r/investing created?

r/investing was founded in March 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Can I promote my product in r/investing?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/investing yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

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