Am I not allowed to look at the chart and make a short-term gain?

I only have 10 BTC to survive on and no other income or assets. I can't mess around just because of my ideology.

I made my best appraisal of which high liquidity token was likely to outperform near-term, purely for speculative reasons.

DASH, Ripple were not open for consideration.

LTC's (and XMR's) chart looked less convincing to me.

My angel investor has some XMR, so no need for me to buy that (since the BTC I have is his anyway).

I still have 4 BTC.

I reiterated my technical reservations when I wrote about hedging to ETH. So I didn't capitulate on technological issues. I have however shifted to a less unrealistic stance on "immutability".

I also wrote that I hold ETH and STEEM because they are competitors to my project, so it is good to hedge against the (unlikely!) failure of my own. If I believe in the market for my project, then I should believe my competitors also are in the correct market. I see a lot of new projects coming out on Ethereum.