Squeezing the juice out of a 100k/week Reddit community. How to monetise?

Hey BHW,

I’ve been building up a niche community on Reddit and it’s finally hit a solid critical mass. I'm currently pulling in over 100k weekly visits.

The audience is highly targeted and high-intent: it's entirely focused on the financial, trading, and technical analysis niche. No memes, no fluff-just active users looking for trading setups, custom indicators, and market data.

Up until now, I’ve focused on keeping the organic content high quality and growing the user base, but I’m ready to start monetizing it efficiently. I refuse to spam the sub with low-tier affiliate links and kill the engagement I built.

Here is what I am currently testing:Right now, my primary angle is selling "Highlight Real Estate." I am letting prop firms, indicator developers, and financial newsletters rent my weekly Pinned Post slot and my Sidebar Widget for a flat fee. It puts their product directly in front of active traders. (Side note: If anyone here runs offers in the financial/trading niche and wants to test out this traffic, feel free to DM me—always open to networking).

My questions for the Reddit/Monetization veterans here:

1. Besides renting out pinned posts/sidebar widgets, what is the most efficient way to squeeze money out of this traffic?
2. Have any of you had success funneling this kind of high-intent Reddit traffic into a gated Discord (using a freemium model via Whop/Telegram)?
3. Are there specific high-ticket B2B affiliate networks you'd recommend I plug into the sub's Wiki?

I’m highly technical (I code in Python, build custom market scanners, etc.) so I’m entirely open to building custom automation or webhooks if there is a B2B SaaS angle I’m missing.

Looking forward to hearing how you guys would scale this. Cheers!

Just replying to up this for comments - have similar situation.

Don't know if it will do you anygood but have you tried Maxbounty?

I have a SOI offer that converts well and accepts traffic from most countries. You could promote that if it fits your audience for 40% commision. Lets talk if you're interested .

The offer is in the "Surveys" niche