This was going good, until someone put a massive pile of ripple for sale just after I bought it. This is going to take a year before I can get rid of those.
it is a big mistake to do this though.
keeping the investment funds idle for a long time (a year as you said or even 1 month) is nearly just as bad as losing money in a bad investment. you are imprisoning your funds which you could have used to make profit elsewhere.
sometimes you need to take a small loss and accept it in order to be able to make bigger profit.
and I am saying this generally, as an advice. not just about Ripple, it may get pumped tomorrow for all I know. but this general advice is something that will help you maximize your profit most of the times when you are trading altcoins.