I just opened my first brokerage account and I'm honestly kinda overwhelmed by all the options out there. For the last couple of years I've been reading (and watching videos) a lot about different investment approaches including stocks, options, futures, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, day trading, buy and hold, swing trading, quantitative, etc. Honestly, it's a lot to take in!
I know that am not interested in set it and forget it type approaches. I believe that while historically they have done fine, there's no guarantee that the next bear market won't be -60% and won't last for decades. I really can't gamble with my retirement for a measly 7%-10% a year!
Day trading seems too stressful and I have a full-time job so kinda won't work.
I tend to like swing trading (from what I have read and watched) and data driven quantitative approaches. For the latter I have seen some hedge funds making a killing, but yet to find any success stories with swing trading.
Quant approach seems to require a lot of learning and being good with math and stats (I'm not).
Has anyone else been in the same boat as me? What did you do?