Im a little bit confused as Im new to this my friend is making a fortune from ripple but not actually owning any as he is investing in it, is this better then having ripple sitting in a wallet?
Depends on your state of mind and your trading skills.As not every one is great with prediction and has a heart to trade.If you want to play safe and reduce risk factor than stick them in your wallet and once they cross certain limit sell all of them.If you want to make it big then you should do daytrading and you need to keep on buy and sell which is much riskier but if this paid off you will get a good surplus amount. Some believe Day trading is much easier but that requires lot of skills which not everyone has.So you decide what you have to do but my advice to you would be play safe at initial stage and after acquiring knowledge you can do trade.