r/Trading is a subreddit with 424k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses trading, strategy, forex, struggling, and gold, and they frequently recommend/review trading book, trading platform, and trading app.
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Popular Themes in r/Trading
#1
Advice Requests
: "Be honest: How realistic is it to actually make a living from trading? Is trading really a way out, or am I just wasting my time?"
18 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "What forex backtesting software have you actually stuck with?"
6 posts
#3
Money Talk
: "Forex vs Gold. Which One Actually Makes More Sense to Trade in 2026?"
1 post
#4
News
: "Today's PCE Report May Matter More Than the Headline Number"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/Trading
#1
Trading
: "After 7 Years of Trading, Almost All My Profits Came From One Boring Habit"
233 posts
#2
Strategy
: "Has anyone found a genuinely profitable, mechanically backtested intraday Strategy?"
48 posts
#3
Forex
: "Everything I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Forex Trading"
23 posts
#4
Struggling
18 posts
#5
Gold
: "Caught these sells on Gold 800 pips! This is trading with fundamentals"
14 posts
#6
Struggling Trader
13 posts
#7
Market
: "When do you think next sluggish Market period will happen?"
13 posts
#8
Mentor
11 posts
#9
Beginner
: "How Beginner Traders Can Actually Learn The Market"
11 posts
#10
Stocks
: "I've been participating in the stock market for a month now, and my biggest question is: why have US Stocks been able to rise continuously for over a decade?"
10 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 am a practicing attorney with 12 years of experience and I have lost approximately $1.26 million in the stock market."
100 posts
#2
Question
: "Be honest: How realistic is it to actually make a living from trading? Is trading really a way out, or am I just wasting my time?"
31 posts
#3
Technical analysis
: "After 7 Years of Trading, Almost All My Profits Came From One Boring Habit"
17 posts
#4
Advice
: "Lets help beginners: What's something about trading that nobody told you upfront that would have saved you years!?"
15 posts
#5
Due-diligence
: "Why you should stop trading "patterns" and "feel" and focus purely on volumetric liquidity sequencing (YTD $81k NET)"
6 posts
#6
Stocks
: "I invested a lot of money in spacex when it was $213"
4 posts
#7
Prop firms
: "Funded Trader"
4 posts
#8
Algo - trading
: "Open sourced my personal quant research framework – Blackwood"
4 posts
#9
Futures
: "I lost all my funding and here's the lesson that hurts me the most."
3 posts
#10
General news
: "Gold Drops Near $4,050 as Strong USD and Fed Rate Hike Expectations Pressure XAU/USD"
3 posts
Member Growth in r/Trading
Yearly
+134k members(46.3%)
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Last updated: June 27, 2026