Good day guys, I'm also quite new to mining been doing allot of alts trading before I decided to generate coins instead of buying them... I'm not expecting to be spoon fed on the matter but would like to know your approach when doing research, for trading the trick was buying low and selling high, buying the rumour and selling the news, buying a coin with a solid team behind it as it starts out in the hope that other people will also share your thoughts and in the process increase its value.

Now with mining same as with trading you obviously not targeting the most popular coins as they are popular because they are overbought, now in mining terms this is where difficulty comes in as I understand, global difficulty to solve a block and pool difficulty when it comes to handing out shares... Hope I'm still on track...

Is the general consensus with mining to target ‘up and coming’ coins? The problem I find with those coins are the pools are so small they never solve a block and thus never distribute the rewards or in some cases the mining software setup is a nightmare as it is not mainstream…

I’m not expecting anyone to disclose any coin names here but would appreciate a little elaboration on the word ‘research’ please, if you feel an open public forum is not the place to disclose state secrets like this please send me a PM and we can discuss, I’m willing to be part of a group, part of a community doing my part, so not looking for free information.