There were some times, NEO was marketed as ETH's competitor. The NEP5 ecosystem once was very potential with Ontology, DeepBrain Chain, Thor, Zeepin... But clearly things changed. You must be very positive on NEO to put $150k on it. If it were me, I'd buy BTC instead.
maybe too speculated to take $ 150k to neo, this might be a big bet. right now neo still hasn't shown a significant increase, I think maybe btc will be better chosen as a neo altcoin.