Hi, everyone. I got about $5000 to invest in crypto. Which one is more secure and profitable: trade crypto (yes, I'm a newbie) or invest in ICO?
I've made my own research and investing in several ICO's seems more attractive for me, but want to know your opinions

Dont invest all your money in just one way. Try diversifying your investments, it will minimize the risks, there is always a risk involved either with investing in ICOs or with trading BTC and altcoins.
Also there is so many fake ICOs and scam projects, make your careful research before investing.
Diversifying always help in spreading risks. Normally, since that is all I have or I have set aside to invest into crypto, then I will take some part of it and invest into BTC and some other top coins that I trust to deliver after looking at the charts over the years and then HODL.
Little part of it can be spread into ICOs as they are a very good way to really make some good profit if you do some good research to invest into the right project and then the rest can go into trading after I have learnt all that it is needed to know about trading safely and efficiently. With this, the OP can never get it wrong.