How do you guys relatively new to the scene cope with this harsh reality? 4-6 months too late
Not too late, you can try to join on the ICO. And that will give you a chance to buy the cheap coin. I can say If you're trying to buy at the ICO price and you will get a cheap coin. Looks buying instantly through the market is too late for us. The whales are accumulating his profit through invest on ICO such as BAT, Aragon, And Gnosis. But I believe if another upcoming ico will be success caused by the whales are trying to flip his money.
But better to buy on the market rather than try to join with ICO. That gives you more guarantee.
buy on exchange after some days or week after ico or join an ico for poor peoples with a max cap between 3BTC to 50Btc with a good project like xtrabytes who started i think with 3Btc, now after 5weeks he is on 20Millions dollars.