If you have no experience trading stocks yet, the best bet is to make enough money so that you can get a rate of return. S&P over the last 100 years has returne

If you have no experience trading stocks yet, the best bet is to make enough money so that you can get a rate of return. S&P over the last 100 years has returned an average of about 10%. So to make 180K gross, I would say you need $1.8 Million cash and then invest in S&P ? If you don't have that, you are in for real fun. I mean most people lose money in stocks or investments. Heck, my 401K investment funds cannot even beat S&P on a constant basis and I have tried to rebalance the heck out of portfolio. I am sure there are folks making 180K gross by investing in stocks but I would bet most of them do that because they have plenty of cash/capital already that generates something along S&P index.