I see a lot of good individual stock plays, And might consider some.
Presently, I only invest in penny stocks, because I don't have much Investment capital I can directly invest (yet). However, my research has shown one path I'm going to engage in later is options trading, and some of the methods I've investigated (on paper--I don't have 15k to get the actual positions) have never lost money.
I've only been doing it about 6 months, so I can't say I've got a solid case for the annual numbers, but it ranges from 15-25% annually so far, maybe 1% off with costs for trades and options contracts. And while there are a lot of stocks you could trade, I prefer blue-chip stocks, since they're more consistent. The volatile stocks could make you more, but, even on paper, I'm bad about timing with them, and I couldn't beat the blue-chip numbers. Since I personally have health issues, I've also looked into some annuities that actually let me invest and pay for my insurance, in some very creative ways. I don't know enough about them to comment yet, but they look very promising.
There are also a few annuities that are indexed and work like a CD/ira/index fund Combination I'm checking into, but they are more for capital RE, since they allow you to have the tax benefits and garanteed rate of return of an annuity, and the index gains of stocks.
Even with my penny stocks, I do use trailing stops, but I mostly invest in dividend stocks, so I don't really need the stops, outside of knowing how much is my money, and how much is stock appreciation/dividend reinvestment. I'm bad on picking winners, so I invest in dividend-paying stocks to limit losses (I've already had them, but volitility my stocks can range from -10% to +25% in a week), but the losses are only losses when you sell. I usually buy when they take a nosedive, because the Dividend on this stock is pretty good (ESPECIALLY when its low!).
My 401k is invested in a target date fund (2040-it predates being here), but I also invest in an index tied to S&P 500, one tied to gold, and one tied to international large cap, a 40/20/20/20 split respectively, though most is still in the 2040 target fund (I'm still contributing, and the 2040 fund is actually doing spectacularly compared to the others (20% gain in principle, vs 5-8% on everything else), so I've chosen to allow time to rebalance the funds, as I contribute more.
Once I have more capital, and can invest more, I'll probably get a IRA (I haven't decided which), and that's going to be where the big moves will be, since it's the pot that will determine when I leave work for good. My plan is 700k (that's always been my goal, even before I found this site), But I want more like 1.5 million, just to be safe. I can have the larger number, if I combine the saving approach I've found here, with the investment approaches I've found elsewhere, and still be FIRE on time.
I'm paranoid about this, even though I know and understand how all of this works, and have since 4th grade. I've even worked in insurance (lic. Life and Health, working on brokerage and securities lic. someday), but I still prefer to have WAY too much, over plenty enough.