Maybe i suggest if you have money and you want to buy a bitcoin do some trading to gain your money and increase it. If you gonna buy 1 btc and wait the bitcoin get high maybe you need to wait when it that happen. But if you gonna trade it in altcoin to wait thar time you can earn big by gathering all you income while waiting the bitcoin get into higher level.
Using Bitcoins you buy to do altcoin trading only adds risks. Especially for people not knowing how to calculate these risks, and what mess the altcoin market really is. It's a gamble. You either hit big, or lose. It's simply not worth it.
yes alt coin trading is very risky because of its price volatility and newbie on trading might experience a great lost. Investing in Btc itself is a good investment. you will got some profit every year if you have
the patience to wait that long time. But if you really want to try alt coin trading. choose an altcoin with good devs and listed in big exchang like polo,bittrex, kraken and so on. LTC, XMR, ETH and XAU is a good alt coin to start for beginners in trading. Goodluck