Honestly the most helpful resource is an insatiable curiosity for understanding why stock prices go up and down. The rabbit hole is infinite, and you'll eventually find a strategy that works with your personality.
What happens to the markets when the AI brainwashing narratives run out of steam. It's not like we need this tech to live a normal life or to be fulfilled
If you stop using options to try to get rich quick, they can make it really easy to outperform the best stocks. Pay $1,000 for a call, and IV increases the cost to like $1,250... boom, sell it back to close and you just outperformed yearly returns in a matter of hours. That money is done now: retire it for the year in high savings. You already returned 25%
I (24M) met my partner (26F) 3 years ago and since then it has been a wild ride. I, with no help from anyone and all on my own, wrote a business critical SaaS product when I was 18. I only got a modest bit of seed capital from my dad (less than 1.5 mil) who works as an angel investor and connected me to an Indian IT outsourcing company to get things rolling. So mostly completely self made.
Recently, all on my own and with no help, against all odds, I sold my SaaS to one of my dad's golfing buddies for 2.9 mil.
You linked me a study on Taiwanese investors from a period when the Taiwan stock index was negative and when trade fees were enormous. Of course they lost money