Roth > Robinhood

Editor Jason Williams doesn't want you to make the same mistake millions of investors are making right now. He explains how to avoid giving up a big chunk of your precious profits. Editor Jason Williams doesn't want you to make the same mistake millions of investors are making right now. He explains how to avoid giving up a big chunk of your precious profits. [Wealth Daily logo] Roth > Robinhood [Jason Williams Photo] By [Jason Williams]( Written Jan 15, 2021 Hopefully, I’m preaching to the choir today. But in case you’re not a convert, I believe you'll be one after you read this article. I’m talking about investing in a tax-advantaged account versus a regular brokerage account. And I’m talking about it because the No.1 question my family and friends asked me this holiday season (other than “Should I buy Bitcoin?”) was what stocks to buy in their new Robinhood accounts. My answer: “None unless you’ve already topped off your Roth IRA.” And that’s the same thing I’ve got to say to you. If you’re putting money into a Robinhood account this year and you haven’t already maxed out your Roth IRA contributions, I’m not really sure what you’re doing reading Wealth Daily. Stupid Name, Smart Idea It may have a kind of silly name, but a Roth IRA should be every investor’s best friend. It’s a special retirement account that most people are eligible to open. You can put as much as $6,000 a year into it (plus a little extra if you’re over 50), and you don’t have to pay taxes on the profits. Let me say that again: YOU DON’T PAY TAXES ON YOUR GAINS!! Millions of These Modules Will Be Deployed Across the U.S. Power Grid Soon Investors who understand why this tiny module is about to revolutionize the power grid stand to make 7,899% on their money. Power outages cost the U.S. economy $150 billion each year... Faulty cables cause wildfires... And hostile cyberattacks aimed at the grid threaten the lives of millions of Americans. But this brand-new technology will put an end to all of this. This massive project is a priority thanks to Executive Order 13920, and Republicans and Democrats alike are behind it. You can get in on this $2.9 trillion opportunity for as little as $8... [Click here to find out (for free) what this is all about.]( Sorry to yell, but if there’s an account out there where you can have your money grow for years and never pay a dime of taxes on it, WHY ARE YOU USING ANYTHING ELSE? My guess is that you just don’t know about the Roth IRA option, or at least that’s my hope. Because if you know about it and you’re not taking advantage of it, I’ve got to believe you just hate money. Now, not everyone is eligible for a Roth. You have to make under a certain amount to qualify. But the income maximum is pretty high, so most of you should fit right in. If you file taxes as a single person and your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) was under $139,000 in 2020 and will be under $140,000 in 2021, you qualify. And if you’re married and filing jointly, and your MAGI in 2020 was less than $206,000 and will be less than $208,000 in 2021, you qualify for a Roth. So a lot of you probably qualify whether you know it or not. But a Roth is not without its risks... A Price for Everything You see, a Roth IRA, like any other retirement account, has restrictions on when you can start accessing the money you’ve saved. If you make any withdrawals from your IRA before you’re 59 ½, you’ll have to pay a 10% early-distribution fee. But once you hit 60, you can start accessing the money and cashing out your tax-free profits. And if you don’t need the money, you don’t actually have to withdraw anything until after the owner of the account passes. So unlike a 401(k) or a traditional IRA or a SEP, you don’t have to take money out when you hit a certain age unless you want to. Now, the risk here is that you’ll need the money before you’re 60. But the argument against that is that you’ll still likely be working until you’re 60. So you’ll have income coming in to cover expenses. Your retirement accounts and your savings are so that you’ll have income after you stop getting a paycheck, not before then. And the forced long-term holding period makes you accept the benefits of compound growth — you know, the eighth wonder of the world (allegedly according to Einstein). Compounding Your Cash You see, the strongest force you’ve got working for you in the stock market is time. With time, pretty much all stocks will grow. And with time, you can easily turn a few thousand dollars into a few hundred thousand dollars. Here’s an example from the past 10 years, using two big-name stocks you all knew about back in 2010, to really drive my point home. And I’m using small investment sizes to really show that anybody can make money in the market given the right amount of time. If you’d taken $1,000 and invested it in Microsoft (a household name) in 2010, and you’d added just $100 a year to your account for the next decade, by December 2020, your account would have grown to be worth $15,635. You’d have contributed a total of $2,000. But you’d have an account worth well over $15,000. That’s a 682% gain! And it’s not like anyone didn’t know what Microsoft was in 2010. It wasn’t a secret stock you had to be in the know to hear about. Or what about Apple? Nobody didn’t know about Apple in 2010. It wasn’t a secret that it was dominating the smartphone world. But if you’d taken that same $1,000 and put it into Apple in 2010, and if you’d added just $100 a year for the next decade, you’d have an account worth $27,383. Again, you only invested $2,000 of your money, and yet you’ve got enough to buy a car by the end of the decade. No secret strategy. No day-trading. Just holding a quality company for 10 years and you’ve got yourself a 1,269% gain. Now, let’s think about the taxes you’d pay on those gains if you were holding them in a Robinhood account and not a Roth IRA... Uncle Sam Worked Hard Because Uncle Sam worked very hard to make those stocks go up, he’s going to take a cut of those profits if you’re not making them in a Roth account. And the cut can be pretty deep. Those examples are all long-term positions, so we’ll look at those capital gains taxes to see how much we’d keep and how much we’d give up. Depending on your taxable income and filing status, those taxes run as high as 20% of your profits. So in our first example with Microsoft, that would add up to a little less than $3,000 ($2,727 to be precise). You’d pay more than you even invested in taxes if you had those in a Robinhood account. You’d keep 83% of the final account value while the government got 17%. With Apple, it would have been even worse. You’d owe Uncle Sam $5,076.60. That’s more than two and a half times the amount you invested to start with! So you’d get to keep about 81% of your final account value, and Uncle Sam would walk with your other 19%. But if you’d had those investments in a Roth IRA, you’d have kept 100% of the profits, and 100% of the final account value would be yours. Do the Math I don’t have to tell you that when you boost those investment numbers, the profits get boosted too. But I will... If you’d started with $10,000 and added $1,000 a year, your Microsoft account would be worth $156,346. And your tax burden would have been $27,269.20. And if you’d done the same with your Apple account, that would be sitting at $273,826. And you’d owe over $50,000 in taxes. I don’t know about you, but I prefer to keep 100% of my profits when I can. Writing a $50,000 check to Uncle Sam is at the end of my list of things I can't wait to do. But I’ll let you do the math and figure out if a Roth IRA is a smart decision for you. And if you do the calculations and agree with everything I’ve just said, and you’re interested in getting a helping hand making sure you’re getting the best stocks in that IRA, you should take a look at my investment community, The Wealth Advisory. Is the Electric Car Already DEAD? Billionaire Elon Musk recently made a stunning confession to the public. There’s a certain technology he believes will be much BIGGER than the electric car. And he thinks it will grow even faster than it, too. This has nothing to do with batteries, 5G, or the internet of things. [Click here to see the details.]( Better than Buffett We’re long-term investors who’ve beaten the market’s returns ever since it began back in 2008. We lost less than the averages in the rout of March 2020 and recovered faster than even the high-flying Nasdaq. [TWA 2020 Gains vs Markets] In fact, despite the trying times, 2020 was our most successful year of investing. Our average gain in our model portfolio was 45% — that even includes some losers we cleared out throughout the year. Our current open positions in the model portfolio are up an average of 181%. Here’s a screenshot of the totals in case you don’t believe me: [TWA Open Gains 1-14-21] Pretty impressive, right? It’s precisely what professional fund managers can’t do: beat the market. In fact, it’s what even the great Warren Buffett couldn’t do over the same stretch. And yet our investors have gotten the opportunity to do that every single year since 2008. Now, past performance doesn’t guarantee future results, but my team and I at The Wealth Advisory are planning for an even better 2021. You see, we’re not the kind of people to rest on our laurels. We might have won last year (and for the past 12 years before that), but this is a new year. That means a blank slate and an empty scoreboard. We’ve got a good streak going, and we’re going to do everything in our power to keep it that way. So if what I said today makes sense and you’re looking for some better advice on what to put into your Roth IRA (besides the maximum contribution every year), you might want to give The Wealth Advisory a try. Our readers seem pretty pleased with their market-beating gains. I think you will be too. You can learn all about one of the companies we’re most bullish on for the coming year by [clicking this link](. You’ll also be given the opportunity to join our investing community. If you decide to join us, you’ll get access to that recommendation as well as all of our active positions and any future recommendations we make. I’m admittedly a little biased since it’s my investment community. But I think you’re going to be very happy with your decision if you choose to join us. Hopefully, I’ll see your name on my list when I send out my next stock pick later this month. If not, hopefully, you’re going to take my advice and get that Roth fired up and loaded with cash. And if not that, at least you’re investing somewhere. That’s honestly enough to make me a happy camper. But I hope you take advantage of the tax-free growth in a Roth IRA, and I also hope you take advantage of [this incredible offer]( to join me and my community of successful investors at The Wealth Advisory. To your wealth, [jason-williams-signature-transparent] Jason Williams [[follow basic]@TheReal_JayDubs]( After graduating Cum Laude in finance and economics, Jason designed and analyzed complex projects for the U.S. Army. He made the jump to the private sector as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley, where he eventually led his own team responsible for billions of dollars in daily trading. Jason left Wall Street to found his own investment office and now shares the strategies he used and the network he built with you. Jason is the founder of [Main Street Ventures](, a pre-IPO investment newsletter, and co-authors [The Wealth Advisory]( income stock newsletter. He also contributes regularly to [Wealth Daily](. To learn more about Jason, [click here](. 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