[Longhaul]

How much money can one make with stocks? What is a good return? Do you have any books to recommend on the subject?

[citron]

you mean by investing or by trading?

if you do it conservatively, 6% a year is about what you should expect , 10% is considered great.
if you do degen trading with leverage, it can be +1000% or -100%

read "the intelligent investor" by graham and the "market wizards" books

[Longhaul]

you mean by investing or by trading?

if you do it conservatively, 6% a year is about what you should expect , 10% is considered great.
if you do degen trading with leverage, it can be +1000% or -100%

read "the intelligent investor" by graham and the "market wizards" books

Graham is a value investor, he stongly discourages low term investments.
Do you trade?

[Archivist]

if you do it conservatively, 6% a year is about what you should expect , 10% is considered great.

The nominal compound return on the U.S. stock market has been 10%, or 7% after inflation.

https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/1926

Average market return exceeds compound return by around 2%.

[nampa]

if you do it conservatively, 6% a year is about what you should expect , 10% is considered great.

The nominal compound return on the U.S. stock market has been 10%, or 7% after inflation.

https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/1926

Average market return exceeds compound return by around 2%.

Waiting for the market to crash to do the whole passive income etf thing, i have done the options and day trading thing. 

Not too successfully. The only thing that works is having strict profit losses and using leveraged etfs to trade indexs intraday. 

Everything else is poison. I've trade earnings, options (selling makes some money, but not much). 
I haven't done much fundamental analysis and do not know sector rotation. Stock picking seems weak. The only thing moving these markets are few high cap tech stocks. 
Lately bonds have been good.