re: Just opened my first Roth IRA, now what?

Won’t be a popular opinion, but I would not do anything right now. All time high markets and don’t want to get into politics, but there are some important events in the near future. I’d spend some time researching stocks, learning how to use the platform of whoever you set your account up with.

Pay attention to the news and watch how individual stocks react to bad news (while investing in stocks that were oversold because of bad news is a small overall percentage of my investments, it is something I’ve been pretty successful with). I have a few exceptions where I won’t buy regardless (like in the airline industry), but watching Boeing over the last several months has been quiet interesting. I’m not saying it’s a bad buy, but I cut out airlines completely after PanAm. Still pretty enticing at times.