r/Trading is a subreddit with 467k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses trading, ai, struggling trader, tired trading, and struggling, and they frequently recommend/review trading book, trading platform, and trading app.
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Popular Themes in r/Trading
#1
Advice Requests
: "How to do Backtesting ?"
3 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Rebuilding my bot from scratch. What's the top pick for a trading API now?"
2 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I’m building an AI trading platform and could use some brutally honest traders to help break it"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/Trading
#1
Trading
: "4 years of Trading taught me these 5 lessons, wish I learned them sooner"
58 posts
#2
Ai
: "What building a chart-analysis Ai that isn't allowed to say "bullish" or "bearish" forced us to decide"
9 posts
#3
Struggling Trader
8 posts
#4
Tired Trading
8 posts
#5
Struggling
6 posts
#6
Trading Strategies
: "# DAILY MARKET BRIEF | Trading Strategies, Tools, and Resources"
5 posts
#7
Strategy
4 posts
#8
Education
: "4 years of trading taught me these 5 lessons, wish I learned them sooner"
3 posts
#9
Investment Behavior
2 posts
#10
Annoying Trading
2 posts
Products Discussed in r/Trading
Trading Book
30 reviews
#1
Mark Douglas
5.0★ from 5 reviews
#2
Edwin Lefevre
5.0★ from 4 reviews
#3
Jack Schwager
4.5★ from 2 reviews
Trading Platform
13 reviews
#1
TradingView
4.3★ from 3 reviews
#2
Webull
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
IC Markets
5.0★ from 1 review
Trading App
11 reviews
#1
Interactive Brokers
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Trading 212
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
IG
3.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/Trading
#1
Discussion
: "I spent months backtesting everything on 41,000 MNQ bars. Here’s why retail trading mostly doesn’t work."
24 posts
#2
Question
: "How to do Backtesting ?"
13 posts
#3
Advice
: "Genuinely feels rigged against me"
5 posts
#4
Options
: "Claude Trader skill v2"
4 posts
#5
Strategy
: "ORB60 auf S&P500"
4 posts
#6
Futures
: "I had AI test every strategy I could find. Nothing survived costs, so I had it teach me the bigger picture instead. Free 7-part library inside."
3 posts
#7
Stocks
: "Happy Tuesday!"
3 posts
#8
Due-diligence
: "4 years of trading taught me these 5 lessons, wish I learned them sooner"
2 posts
#9
Algo - trading
: "Rebuilding my bot from scratch. What's the top pick for a trading API now?"
2 posts
#10
Resources
: "Math"
1 post
Member Growth in r/Trading
Yearly
+129k members(38.1%)
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Last updated: October 28, 2026