A few triggers can help you:
1. It's an ICO? 100% scam
2. It's premined? 100% scam
3. It's not minable? 100% scam
4. It's a clone of another coin? 90% scam
Hope this helps and I also hope you guys have some brains to choose a few nice, fair, decentralized coin to invest your money and not all those shitcoins.
Nailed it.
Pfffft. Shitcoin or no shitcoin, as long as you know what you're doing in trading, and the 'shitcoin' has good volume and liquidity then you could make some profit trading them. It's all about trading well and having a strategy. If you don't know what you're doing then you're better off holding everything in Bitcoin.
... Or just save your money in fiat, safe in your bank account. It's always gonna be your fault why you're losing value.