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Financial news and views. Welcome to r/Finance! No Personal Finance, Homework, Personal blogs, or Career-related posts. All questions go in Monday Morning catch-all threads. Founded 2008 · 2.1M members · links only

2.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 12K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.1Mmembers
12Kbest post
1.6Kmost comments
200posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

83% 13%
Link 83% Text 13% Image 4% Video 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Bipartisan bill would ban lawmakers from buying, selling stocks

↑ 12K 💬 301 link 2021

Wall st short-sellers lost $1.6 billion in a single day as Reddit traders rebelled against them

↑ 7.8K 💬 634 link 2021

Donald Trump Plans 10% Tariffs on China Goods, 25% on Mexico and Canada

↑ 6.8K 💬 1.6K link 2024

Robinhood, Interactive Brokers restrict trading in GameStop stock and options

↑ 6K 💬 501 link 2021

The US is considering a sovereign wealth fund. Alaska already has one, and it's funding a universal basic income.

↑ 5.5K 💬 200 link 2024

Powell confirms that the Fed would have cut by now were it not for tariffs

↑ 5.1K 💬 147 link 2025

U.S. Airlines Ask for Bailout as They Spent 96% of Free Cash Flow on Buybacks from 2010-2019

↑ 4.4K 💬 694 link 2020

AP News: Live updates: European Union freezes assets of Putin, Lavrov

↑ 4.2K 💬 199 link 2022

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell.

↑ 4.2K 💬 189 video 2026

Elizabeth Warren urges regulators to block Capital One’s takeover of Discover

↑ 4K 💬 329 link 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/finance, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/finance?
r/finance ("Financial news and views") describes itself this way: Welcome to r/Finance! No Personal Finance, Homework, Personal blogs, or Career-related posts. All questions go in Monday Morning catch-all threads. It was founded in 2008 and has 2.1M members.
How many members does r/finance have?
r/finance has about 2.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 200 of its posts; the biggest reached 12K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/finance?
"Bipartisan bill would ban lawmakers from buying, selling stocks" reached 12K upvotes and 301 comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/finance.
What subreddits are similar to r/finance?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/AnarchyChess, r/PcBuild, r/bald, r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut, r/ukraine, r/florida.
What kind of posts do best on r/finance?
Of the posts we hold, 83% are link posts and 13% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/finance?
Across 200 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 14:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 02:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/finance?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/finance has 2.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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