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The most-talked-about tickers on WallStreetBets, r/stocks, r/investing and more. By default they are ranked by engagement, the upvotes and comments the crowd is actually piling into, not just raw name-drops. Switch the sort to see the most-mentioned names or the hottest debates. Each one shows the crowd’s bull or bear lean and its most-engaging posts. This is the loud, fast side of the market. Treat it as a starting point for research, not a signal, and do your own homework.

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Updated Aug 31, 1:45 AM. Scanned 5,216 posts across r/wallstreetbets, r/stocks, r/investing and more (hot, new and top of the day).

  1. 1$NVDA8.3k3.4k219 posts · 29 subs12kBullish
  2. 2$SPY4.9k2.6k150 posts · 22 subs7.5kBullish
  3. 3$META3.3k2.0k43 posts · 20 subs5.3kBullish
  4. 4$VOO2.2k2.8k56 posts · 8 subs5.1kBullish
  5. 5$VTI2.5k2.0k50 posts · 8 subs4.5kBullish
  6. 6$VXUS2.5k1.8k43 posts · 7 subs4.4kBullish
  7. 7$MRNA3.4k39618 posts · 11 subs3.8kBullish
  8. 8$MSFT1.4k1.5k31 posts · 16 subs2.9kBullish
  9. 9$QQQ1.5k1.3k63 posts · 20 subs2.9kBullish
  10. 10$VT1.3k1.3k26 posts · 7 subs2.7kBullish
  11. 11$AAPL1.7k91721 posts · 15 subs2.6kBullish
  12. 12$AMZN1.5k1.0k25 posts · 15 subs2.5kBullish
  13. 13$MU1.2k88083 posts · 18 subs2.1kBullish
  14. 14$MRVL1.3k76145 posts · 11 subs2.1kBullish
  15. 15$SCHD71888628 posts · 6 subs1.6kBullish
  16. 16$AMD82456526 posts · 14 subs1.4kBullish
  17. 17$CC56771324 posts · 4 subs1.3kBullish
  18. 18$IREN68347835 posts · 14 subs1.2kMixed
  19. 19$ES62151642 posts · 10 subs1.1kBullish
  20. 20$TSLA62238519 posts · 14 subs1.0kBullish
  21. 21$SPCX63532729 posts · 16 subs962Bullish
  22. 22$SNDK81412127 posts · 8 subs935Bullish
  23. 23$IBKR41949525 posts · 13 subs914Bullish
  24. 24$CRM51921627 posts · 17 subs735Bullish
  25. 25$EMA36335732 posts · 16 subs720Bullish
  26. 26$NBIS41029021 posts · 9 subs700Bearish
  27. 27$ET46322435 posts · 14 subs687Bullish
  28. 28$IP40614725 posts · 13 subs553Bullish
  29. 29$BTC26624133 posts · 19 subs507Bullish
  30. 30$QQQM11538522 posts · 7 subs500Bullish
  31. 31$RR18629020 posts · 13 subs476Bearish
  32. 32$PLTR22616221 posts · 11 subs388Bearish
  33. 33$MSS11716822 posts · 11 subs285Bullish
  34. 34$GOOG12713518 posts · 11 subs262Bullish
  35. 35$SU672544 posts · 3 subs92Bullish
  36. 36$LU672544 posts · 3 subs92Bullish
  37. 37$SD672544 posts · 3 subs92Bullish
  38. 38$TOP371123 posts · 4 subs48Bearish
  39. 39$SWISF38228 posts · 5 subs40Bullish
  40. 40$EMAT22022 posts · 2 subs22Bearish

How this works

Every half hour we scan the hot, new and top-of-the-day posts across the big trading subreddits, pull out the tickers people mention (validated against real symbols), and add up the upvotes and comments each one is drawing. Engagement ranks by that total, so a name in a few red-hot threads beats one sprinkled across dead posts. Most mentioned is raw post count, and Hot debate is comments per upvote, the threads people are arguing over. The velocity badge compares against the last scan, so a fast-rising name stands out, and the bull/bear bar is a rough read of the language in those posts.

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