That's exactly what has happened with Nvidia. Over the past year, Nvidia stock is up by 166% as the surge in AI investment has been a massive tailwind to the business. On the other hand, even including its massive dividend yield, the YieldMax NVDA Option Income Strategy ETF is up by about 105%. That's 61 percentage points of underperformance.

If you want to earn a big return and turn $25,000 into more than $1 million, there is a safer and better way to do so -- assuming that you're willing to be patient. An exchange-traded fund (ETF) can allow you to generate some massive gains over the years,

Tesla (TSLA) and Nvidia (NVDA) stocks have done well in the past few days as American equities bounced back. Tesla has jumped by over 33% from its lowest point in August and is slowly nearing its highest point this year.