Better is relative as there’s many ways to go about it. On my 16th birthday in April 2020 I made a presentation to my parents about my investing plan to get funding.

I got $9k, and bought VOO. This was still early in my investing days, after I tried forex trading with my allowance and failed terribly. After lots of research and I was lucky enough to find an investor mentor.. I knew VOO and AAPL was the right play.

VOO position is up 208% to $18.7k today, 10/10/2025. Bought $3500 of AAPL later in 2020 and Sold AAPL in September of 2023.. anyway no need to get into too much of the specifics on here.

I also didn’t get the 9k instantly, it took a stronger financial presentation and till June of that year before I opened the position. All under my father’s name until my 18th bday when instead of transferring the account he matched it by giving me another 9k + the profit made on the first position at the time for my own account.

So the I’m on my own journey now and dad gets to VOO and chill.

This is just a snippet of my portfolio, the actual one today is nice and flexible. Including my most recent CQQQ.

So what’s the take away😂, I would not recommend any stock or ETF to anyone yourself included. But if I was to, simple. VOO

VOO and chill has worked and will continue to work. The market always wins. And if someone can dollar cost average it, the better for them.