r/algotrading is a subreddit with 1.9M members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses algo trading, strategies, api, gold, and backtesting, and they frequently recommend/review trading book and stock screener.
A place for redditors to discuss quantitative trading, statistical methods, econometrics, programming, implementation, automated strategies, and bounce ideas off each other for constructive criticism. Feel free to submit papers/links of things you find interesting.
Popular Themes in r/algotrading
#1
Advice Requests
: "Please peer-review my Index Options Scalping Bots"
2 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Need Algo trading friendly prop firm with Rithmic or something else?"
1 post
#3
Pain & Anger
: "I wrote an EA that is only profitable on demo :/"
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "Argument for Rejecting Selling the Volatility Premium (with relevant poem)"
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "Improvements on my gold algo"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/algotrading
#1
Algo Trading
: "Is Algo Trading moving towards reinforcement learning?"
9 posts
#2
Strategies
: "Managing drawdowns of different Strategies in a portfolio"
7 posts
#3
Api
5 posts
#4
Gold
: "Stairway to Heaven: a trend-following breakout system on Gold. 31% win rate."
5 posts
#5
Backtesting
4 posts
#6
Algo
: "claude Algo bot, week 3 first loss"
4 posts
#7
Backtest
: "Update: Forward-testing my M1 Gold Scalper. The live execution is matching the Backtest perfectly."
4 posts
#8
Crypto
: "Anyone building algos for short-expiry binary / Crypto price markets?"
4 posts
#9
Bitcoin
: "I believe that i have finally achieved my "cheat code" for Bitcoin. This thing is being so accurate that im wondering what is the catch here"
4 posts
#10
Brokerage
3 posts
Products Discussed in r/algotrading
Trading Book
12 reviews
#1
Rob Carver
3.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Ernie Chan
1.0★ from 1 review
#3
Sinclair
4.0★ from 1 review
Stock Screener
2 reviews
#1
TradingView
5.0★ from 1 review
#2
Finbox
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/algotrading
#1
Strategy
: "Stairway to Heaven: a trend-following breakout system on gold. 31% win rate."
21 posts
#2
Data
: "First day of paper trading on my binary options algo"
15 posts
#3
Infrastructure
: "Anyone building algos for short-expiry binary / crypto price markets?"
8 posts
#4
Other/Meta
: "״Money-Printing Machine״"
5 posts
#5
Research Papers
: "The biggest trading study ever (43M trades) EXPLAINS WHY most traders lose money. The lesson is also valid for algo traders."
3 posts
#6
Education
: "Avoiding Robotic Regret?"
3 posts
#7
Career
: "Unpaid Quant Research Internship at a Startup — Worth it?"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/algotrading
Yearly
+78k members(4.4%)
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Last updated: July 10, 2026