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 trading, backtesting, api, brokerage, and algorithmic trading, 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
: "Book recommendations?"
16 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "I built an XGBoost model for orange juice futures using weather data and more. help me improve it :)"
7 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Quite fed up with the piece of garbage called IB api"
2 posts
#4
Ideas
: "How to build and maintain a profitable strategy: post roundup."
1 post
#5
Self-Promotion
: "Built the Free All-in-One Smart-Money Tracker"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/algotrading
#1
Trading
: "Coming from AI engineering, want to build my own Trading bot"
17 posts
#2
Backtesting
4 posts
#3
Api
4 posts
#4
Brokerage
3 posts
#5
Algorithmic Trading
3 posts
#6
Data
: "Need to clean some Data (Reverse Splits)"
3 posts
#7
Looking For A Data Source
2 posts
#8
Looking For A Programmer
2 posts
#9
Looking For A Mentor
2 posts
#10
Looking For A Good Api
2 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
Data
: "Thank you algotrading!"
61 posts
#2
Strategy
: "Update on the “claude built me a strategy” post from last week"
51 posts
#3
Infrastructure
: "Project almost ready."
24 posts
#4
Other/Meta
: "This sub is unusable"
20 posts
#5
Education
: "Before you start any strategy development you should know this: an edge is a reason someone pays you"
17 posts
#6
Business
: "How do you report taxes when you have 200K+ trades?"
3 posts
#7
Career
: "Profitable Algo traders, are you here?"
2 posts
#8
Research Papers
: "Estimating current short interest from daily FINRA short volume"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/algotrading
Yearly
+80k members(4.5%)
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Last updated: September 3, 2026