<prompt> Human: One year ago this week, stock in Tesla Motors TSLA was around 30. Today its at 183. The share price of Netflix NFLX was around 55. Now its 313. These were not obscure companies a year ago, only familiar to Wall Street insiders. You had likely heard of them and knew what they were about. Electric cars and movies on the internet? Its almost a no-brainer to predict that they would be successful. So why not make a little investment? If you or I had taken 20,000 and invested half in each of these companies one year ago, that investment would now be worth approximately 120,000. That same 20,000 in a 5 mutual fund, however, would now be a paltry 21,000.1000 vs 100,000.Not really sure where Im going with this. I suppose Im just wondering if anyone else drives themselves crazy by following the skyrocketing share prices of stocks they dont own while watching their smart investments make substantially lower returns. What advice would you have given to someone looking to invest in these two companies a year ago? I guarantee that the most upvoted responses would have been the ones that steered toward the 1000.  <response>: Hindsight is 2020.I guarantee that the most upvoted responses would have been the ones that steered toward the 1000.Lets take another example, while were cherry picking. 1 year ago, Apple stock was at 700. Yesterday it closed at 467. If you had invested 20,000 in AAPL one year ago, you would now have roughly 13,400. That 5 return on the mutual fund is looking pretty good now, isnt it! 