
very basic math and a rudimentary understanding of the markets should prove undeniably to anyone that beating 10-20% in a year is easy as hell. just 1 10% gain a month (truly easy to do) would be roughly 250%...
1000% in couple months is just your training wheels coming off. cash/time poor i understand, that's where i started too...started trading during breaks/down time. those "active funds underperform the market" soundbites your familiar with only applies to large cap fund managers and shit mate, those funds aren't designed to beat the market...they're designed to minimize risk and fluctuations in value for shitloads of $, while still increasing relative to inflation
most brokers don't get paid to actively manage shit anyway, they're getting paid to essentially oversee a block of accounts/deal with clients/facilitate special orders etc. but i can guarantee you one that is being paid to actively manage wouldn't have a job very long if they couldn't beat a sp500 etf...