Reddit traders turn bearish on Meta, SPY, bitcoin, and gold

As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on October 20, 2026.

Reddit's most-discussed stocks · Oct 20 9:35am ET

1METAbearish281 comments · 1.1K upvotes
2SPYbearish272 comments · 711 upvotes
3TQQQbullish194 comments · 596 upvotes
4BTCbearish170 comments · 496 upvotes
5GLDbearish170 comments · 496 upvotes

AMZNsouring fast

Meta tops the board with 281 comments and the mood there is bearish, with traders equally downbeat on the S&P 500 tracker, bitcoin and gold. Sentiment stays bullish on the leveraged Nasdaq fund, while chatter on Amazon is souring fast.

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Meta drew the heaviest retail attention on Reddit on October 20 with 281 comments, and the crowd leaned bearish. Heavy volume paired with a downbeat mood points to stubborn conviction.

The bearish tone was not isolated to Meta: the S&P 500 tracker drew 272 comments with a negative tilt, and bitcoin and gold carried the same bearish lean. Risk assets and the traditional inflation hedge sit in one unfavored camp.

The leveraged Nasdaq fund is the lone counterpoint in the top five, holding bullish sentiment on 194 comments. Some participants are positioning for a concentrated tech rebound.

Amazon missed the top five by comment volume but showed the fastest-souring chatter of the group. Keep an eye on that conversation alongside the names dominating the board.

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Mentioned: META, SPY, TQQQ, BTC, GLD

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METAsouring fast

Meta tops the board with 1,012 comments and the mood there is souring fast, while traders stay bearish on bitcoin, gold and long Treasuries. Tesla chatter is heating up, and leveraged Nasdaq bets are the one corner Reddit still likes.

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Charlie Bilello @charliebilello

Oct 17, 7:55am ET

Bonds returned 14% over the decade, well short of the 39% rise in inflation, while Nvidia returned 13,127%. That gap explains why so many portfolios now lean hard on a handful of AI names.

Last 10 Years... NVIDIA $NVDA: +13,127% Bitcoin $BTC: +12,645% $AMD: +7,733% Tesla $TSLA: +2,607% Apple $AAPL: +1,177% Microsoft $MSFT: +938% Google $GOOGL: +755% Amazon $AMZN: +509% Meta $META: +460% S&P $SPY: +319% Gold $GLD: +220% US Inflation: +39% US Bonds $AGG: +14%

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Reddit's most-discussed stocks · Oct 16 Oct 16, 9:35am ET

1TSLAbullish981 comments · 2.1K upvotes
2NVDAsplit755 comments · 3.2K upvotes
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4METAsplit146 comments · 638 upvotes
5MSFTsplit182 comments · 674 upvotes

TSLAheating up fast

NVDAsouring fast

Tesla bulls dominated the boards today with 981 comments, the loudest single-stock chatter on the list, while Nvidia talk is souring fast even as it draws the most upvotes. Traders are also leaning bearish on the S&P 500 tracker, a tell worth watching.

Reddit's most-discussed stocks · Oct 15 Oct 15, 9:35am ET

1NVDAbullish645 comments · 814 upvotes
2SPYbearish177 comments · 1.5K upvotes
3SMHbearish210 comments · 485 upvotes
4MUbullish559 comments · 1.2K upvotes
5NBISbullish460 comments · 509 upvotes

MUheating up fast

Reddit traders are piling into individual chip names while turning cautious on the broad market, with Nvidia bullish on 645 comments and Micron heating up fast right behind it. The same crowd is souring on the S&P 500 tracker and the semiconductor ETF.

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1SPYbearish708 comments · 5.0K upvotes
2GOOGLsplit1.4K comments · 1.6K upvotes
3METAsplit724 comments · 1.9K upvotes
4AMZNsplit955 comments · 376 upvotes
5NVDAbearish966 comments · 477 upvotes

METAheating up

MUsouring fast

Retail boards are leaning bearish on the index itself and on Nvidia even as megacap tech dominates the conversation, with Alphabet pulling 1,416 comments. Meta chatter is heating up while Micron talk sours fast.

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RDDTheating up fast

NVDAsouring

Retail traders have swung away from the AI trade today: Bumble and Reddit itself are drawing the bullish crowd while Nvidia chatter is souring. Reddit is heating up fast with 366 comments, the busiest thread count on the board.

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Biggest movers · At the close Oct 12, 4:11pm ET

Gainers

SHOPShopify$179.5+5.1%
SNAPSnap$6.53+4.8%
CCZComcast$65+4.1%
METAMeta$743.16+3.4%
MDTMedtronic$91.45+3.4%

Losers

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LCIDLucid$3.44-9.2%
AAOIApplied Optoelectronics$100.76-8.1%

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Reddit's most-discussed stocks · Oct 12 Oct 12, 9:38am ET

1MSFTsplit96 comments · 471 upvotes
2METAbearish63 comments · 447 upvotes
3NKEbearish74 comments · 199 upvotes
4NVDAbullish167 comments · 336 upvotes
5ORCLbearish49 comments · 291 upvotes

MUheating up

SPYsouring fast

Nvidia owns the board today with 167 comments and the only clearly bullish mood, while Meta, Nike and Oracle all lean bearish and Microsoft splits the room. Memory names are heating up with Micron, and traders are souring fast on the broad S&P 500 fund.