r/RealDayTrading rules, stats, and what to post

This community is for people who want to learn day trading for income, not for entertainment. The description says it is devoted to teaching strategies and resources that help traders become consistently profitable. The people doing the teaching are professional traders, meaning consistently profitable and full-time, and the people learning are novice or struggling traders. The whole sub is built around a wiki that took over a year of collective effort from those professionals, so the wiki is the center of gravity for every discussion. Rule “Treat RealDayTrading as a place of teaching” spells out the culture: it works like a university classroom, with established teachers, teaching assistants who have proven themselves, and everyone else as a student. The description also makes clear there is an absolute no troll policy, because the people running it believe the way trading is usually taught has damaged people trying to better their lives. If you show up, you are expected to be there to learn, and to want trading as a source of income, which rule “You must be interested in trading for income” states plainly.

The rule that decides everything for a founder is “No shilling crap”. It says sharing resources you recommend or created yourself is essential to everyone's success, but only if you are a proven, flaired trader, and it says if it is a scam you will be banned, and if you don't take no for an answer you will be banned. So promotion is conditional on standing you almost certainly do not have yet. “Read the Wiki first!!” matters because if it is evident you have not read the wiki, you will be asked to refrain from participating until you have. “Do not treat RealDayTrading as a general daytrading-themed discussion board” limits discussion to trading within the context of the wiki material, and rules out crypto, long-term investing, algo-trading, forex, and prop firm trading. “Exercise discretion when giving trading advice” asks that all trading advice be in alignment with the wiki, because amateurs giving advice pass along bad habits. “Treat RealDayTrading as a place of teaching” frames the whole sub like a university, where the professionals teach and everyone else is a student. “No trolling” means antagonistic people get one warning and then a ban. “This is not WSB - Do not act like it” bans rocket emojis, hype calls, and pages of nonsense due diligence. “Do not spread misinformation” says if you do not know what you are talking about, do not give advice. “If you have any doubts about what is permissible in this sub, please read our wiki first, and then consider posting in our Weekly Q&A thread before creating a new post.” is part of rule 2 and points unsure posters to the weekly thread. “You must be interested in trading for income” sets the bar for who belongs here at all.

Be honest about what this means for a founder: this is one of the hardest communities to market in respectfully, and most marketing posts do not belong here. A good post reads like a student asking a genuine question about the wiki material, or sharing an honest experience trading the methods the wiki teaches. If you have doubts about whether your topic fits, the rules themselves tell you what to do: read the wiki first, then consider posting in the Weekly Q&A thread before creating a new post. That weekly thread is the safest place to start. If you genuinely use a resource and want to recommend it, the rules only allow that from a proven, flaired trader, so as a newcomer you should hold off entirely. The realistic path is to read the wiki, participate as a learner, ask thoughtful questions in the weekly thread, and let any mention of what you build come much later, if at all, once you have standing in the community. Anything that smells like a launch, a link drop, or a pitch will read as shilling to the people here, and the rules say repeat pushing gets you banned.

The fastest way out is promoting something when you are not a proven, flaired trader, or pushing your resource after being told no, because “No shilling crap” says both get you banned. Posting without reading the wiki gets you asked to stop participating, per “Read the Wiki first!!”. Off-topic subjects like crypto, forex, algo-trading, prop firm trading, or long-term investing get removed under “Do not treat RealDayTrading as a general daytrading-themed discussion board”. Advice that does not align with the wiki, or advice from someone who has never had a profitable month, trips “Exercise discretion when giving trading advice”. Hype posts with rocket emojis or moon calls break “This is not WSB - Do not act like it”. Trolling gets one warning and then a ban under “No trolling”. Being an asshole, sexism, racism, or LGBTQ+ insults mean an immediate ban with no questions asked under “Do not be a complete asshole”, and politics stays outside the sub too. Spreading misinformation breaks “Do not spread misinformation”. Finally, participating in the Daily Live Trading threads without reading their specific rules breaks “Read the rules of the Daily Live Trading Thread.”.

This is one of the strictest rooms I have written up, and I respect it. The wiki-first rule means you cannot even participate until you have done the reading, which is a filter most communities never bother with. The classroom framing in “Treat RealDayTrading as a place of teaching” tells you exactly what your posture should be: a student, not a marketer. If your product cannot survive that framing, this is not your community.