Im going to advise that you take that $1000 dollars and invest it in a company you believe can be a successful in the long run. Do your own due diligence and try to stay away from taking stock picking advice from others because a lot of the time they have biases and its better to know how a valuation was reached. Overall, you have so much time to wait out a lull in the economy or get in earlier on new innovations. To get a $100000 return on your investment you should look at investing atleast 2k a year for the next 10 years. Take the majority of that and put it in ETFs that track the market with a portion, maybe 30%, in individual stock picks