Are you talking about buying the same etf directly through stock market rather than using SA as a vehicle to buy and managed the portfolio of etf?

Or are u talking buying company share? With no further details, not sure if any meaningful conclusion can be made, but generally it is not recommemded to DCA a company stock as you just increase your exposure and risk to that company.

I am sure you are aware company get delisted all the time or come crashing down without ever recovering. I give you a few example from bursa, sapura energy or previously know as sapura kencana just trading at 3 % of its peak. It was rm 4.xx last time now it is just rm 0.12, there are many other cases as well, some even get delisted due to bankruptcy. UMW oil and gas a.k.a velesto is another case and dont forget Malaysia airlines as well. Hopefully no one get any idea to DCA into air asia.

ETF however hold a basket of stock, while some are riskier than other, it is hard to go wrong with etf that tracks s&p 500 in the long term.

Now i would like you to imagine if you somehow dca in sapura kencana/energy or even Malaysia airlines when it was listed years ago.

what make u think so? 

Err, no it has not grown faster than ark for the past 1 year or even the past 1,3,6 months.

But if you think it will in the future then only time will tell. By the way tsla being in sp500 if it crash, your SA may also be affected due to xly contain a lot of it.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teslas-1-5b-...-073527943.html I am also very skeptical of Tesla, especially after its investment in Bitcoin.

What will be your reasoning that Tesla is a bubble?

Wrong assumption a simple ARK ETF track specific share prices which gains 3x faster than SA on a minimum 
IJR as well on the breakout again. As long as you on 36 KWEB and IJR is the benchmark to see whether you’re making the money 
You gonna missed out because you still doesn’t understand Tesla driver fundamentals as the company solid with cash. The price is not based on speculation or hype but it is buying the future forward 

Those who Tesla bears are just waiting for another squeeze or share split which is for them to enter at affordable price

The reason is why’s Tesla is buying crypto is because to hedge USD when it’s gonna devalue 15% price value yearly under Biden stimulus plan which gonna flood the market with USD in terms of liquidity

If all major S&P500 companies invest 2% of cash it is almost USD400billion based on BTC at current level of 47k

All green doesn’t mean your ETF gains as they rebalancing going on certain shares hence negative and it willing reflect the adjustment this evening once markets open
How you know that Tesla doesn’t hedge gold?

Tesla has hedge in several other commodities which are in different in their assets which are better performing than gold

Companies use hedge to grow value not preserve value hence it make sense buy growth assets now like bitcoin

Only a fool like you still buy gold because it is not growth asset but preserve asset