Retirement tax questions

If you have self-employment income you can only contribute up to your net profit reduced by the deduction allowed for the ER portion of your self-employment taxes. See IRS publication 590A page 6 about self employment income (it applies to both Traditional and ROTH IRAs)
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590a.pdf

 

So you need to fill out schedule C and have a Net Profit to show earned income to make a IRA contribution.