r/Daytrading rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for day traders, people trading futures, forex, stocks, and similar instruments on short timeframes. The description is one line, but the rules fill in the picture. This is a place to discuss what you did in a trade, ask for advice on how to improve, and share real experience with other active traders. The first rule is explicit that long-term investing talk belongs in r/investing, so the room is strictly about day trading. The tone is serious too, the rules describe r/Daytrading as a serious place, so the people posting here want substance about entries, exits, risk, and process, not entertainment.

The rules that decide whether a marketing-adjacent post survives here are “No spamming, selling or promoting your product, service or community”, which bans selling, affiliate and referral links, discord promotion, and asking people to DM you, with a carve-out for content creators who follow the community's published guidelines. “No ChatGPT or AI-Generated Content” bans AI-written posts, copy-pasted advice, and generic tips with no personal experience. “Don't glorify losses or post wins without context” means any trade you share needs details on what you did and why. “Stay on topic” keeps this strictly day trading, so long-term investing content belongs elsewhere, and “No pumping stocks” kills any post that talks up a security. “No memes, jokes, or NSFW content” and “Don't be an asshole” round out the room.

Post your actual process. A good post here walks through a trade or a trading problem in detail, what you did, why you did it, and what you want help with. If you had a losing streak, write up what went wrong and ask for advice on how to improve, that is exactly what the rules ask for instead of a sob story. If you built something useful for traders, you can participate, but keep it to genuine discussion and follow the content creator guidelines before you share anything of your own. Speak from your own experience, because the community explicitly says it wants real insights, not recycled content. Answer other traders' questions with specifics from your own trading, and you will earn a place here.

Do not sell, spam, or share affiliate or referral links, and do not promote your discord, your own subreddit, or ask users to DM you, unless you follow the content creator guidelines the community published. Do not post AI-generated content, including ChatGPT strategies, vague broad tips, or generic lists of rules and mindset advice. Do not post P&L screenshots or winning trades without explaining what you did and why. Do not glorify losses or post sob stories about losing money without turning it into a request for advice. Do not go off topic into long-term investing or inflammatory personal politics, do not pump a security, and do not post memes, jokes, or NSFW content. And do not be an asshole, criticism is welcome, rage is not.

The rule that got my attention here is the AI one, because it bans generic ChatGPT trading tips even when nobody is selling anything, which tells you this room has been flooded with recycled content and is tired of it. I also like that rule two does not just ban loss porn, it tells you the acceptable version, write up what you did and ask how to improve. That is basically a template for a good post in any trading community. My honest read is that this is one of the stricter trading subs on Reddit, and that strictness is a gift if you actually have something real to share.