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Let's Talk About: Exchange Traded Financial Options -- Options Fundamentals -- The Greeks -- Strategies -- Current Plays and Ideas -- Q&A -- **New Traders**: See the Options Questions Safe Haven weekly thread

1.4M subscribers443 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. <1% by known bots)329 authors / mosince 2009

r/options has 1.4M members (+7.4% over the last 12 months). It gets about 443 posts a month from 329 people. Top topics: Covered Calls & Options, Options Trading and SPY Options Trading.

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Size and growth

How r/options has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+7.4%in 12 months · +1.1% in 3 months · +0.2% in 1 month
Oct 20261.4M
Growing1.4M subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/options

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−68%vs Sep 2025 · −34% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026443
QuieterPeaked at 2.1k in Nov 2021
Sep 2026: incl. <1% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/options

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Covered Calls & Options9.3%
  2. Options Trading6.0%
  3. SPY Options Trading5.2%
  4. Wheel Strategy Discussions3.3%
  5. Volatility Trading1.9%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. OptionStrat
  2. Cboe Global Markets
  3. Simple Page
  4. Wolfram
  5. tastylive

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