I'm in it bad now lol. Just transferred my Roth IRA from Vanguard to TD Ameritrade a few days ago. I have made $6800 in Roth IRA contributions so far (for 2018 and some of 2019). The Roth IRA balance is now $7791 in just under two months for a 16.37% gain. Compared to, in the same timeframe, 4.5% VTSAX gain in my Solo Roth 401k.
Past three days I've made about 4.6% in my Roth IRA in TD Ameritrade, in three trades. Two of them were wins w/ TSLA and one was a small loss (0.75%) with WTI. Swing trading VTWO right now at least until Monday, maybe longer as I expect some more market growth next few days due to lowest unemployment rate in what 49 years?
Above chart is in Central Time (CST).
I've been watching a few Udemy course videos on Stock Trading by Mohsen Hasan, starting last week. $11.99 per course is what I paid so pretty cheap -- he has three different courses and I bought them all. He's a great teacher and I've learned so much which has helped me the past few days to capture these gains. Mohsen covers the following in his video series: The Basics of the Market, Orders & Prices, Technical Analysis, Recommended Resources, Risk Management and Money Management, Trading Psychology, The Micro-Structure, ECNs & Dark Pools, Valuation & Technical Analysis, Fundamentals, Macro-Events, Trading Plan & Strategies, Day Trading & Swing Strategies (OPG, Equity Dilution, Dividend Cuts)
Going to be getting a few books as well. Just bought How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O'Neil.
Liking the Thinkorswim platform.
So much to learn! Gah! I am making sure to place all my BUY orders with TRG brackets with Sell Limit and Stop Loss included. I don't like to lose more than say 1-1.5% in a trade so I set the STOP LOSS up pretty high. I usually just like to day trade and get out of the market, but the market is good enough at the moment (it seems) so I have 95% of my account in VTWO (at least until Monday).