Quote from: auliahr on February 17, 2018, 10:20:04 AM

Quote from: jdoi on February 17, 2018, 02:44:32 AM

Being a newbie, I'm looking for a good direction on learning about the markets and trading. How would you decide which ICO to invest in? Cryptocurrency is too volatile, but so there is still many people who go into investment that goes even in the newest coins which are similar (not same) in the functionality that they offer (e.g. anonymity). What is the possibility on any of these coins (or digital currency in general) being successful (or profitable)? I'm also not clear on how does the value of coin inflate or deflate; especially when the flow is controlled by the developers?

tl;dr Any resources or pointers on the topic are appreciated.

the first thing I did was read and study his whitepaper. we see what the concept is, how to solve the problem he gave and what he will do (road map). honestly there are so many details to explain, but you can start from the whitepaper.

Quote from: CrazyJoker on February 17, 2018, 08:14:06 PM

Hi! Let me share my step order for make an investment decision:
1. Whitelist (full information that create my imagination of project)
2. Team (who can realize idea, their success and some achievers)
3. Roadmap (plans and potential, where they would like to be as result)
4. Cap (soft or hard, the demand on it)
5. My own forecast (how cool is an idea? Is it really needed for society?)

Thanks, that covers a lot of points and a good idea in general on how to approach investing.
(Though frankly I need a little work on understanding markets, caps and demands

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Quote from: bitlyra on February 17, 2018, 10:19:09 PM

Choosing potential ICO is not that simple to do because we cannot determine what is the best ICO and all we only have is a guess and speculations. But at least we check its popularity in the telegram and some of good ICO also are being published in the social media. You must to check also if they have a whitepaper and website.

Quote from: AdamRay on February 17, 2018, 02:38:30 PM

I rather like investing in altcoin because now there are a lot of good projects that are set up to create a crypto with good technical background and high practical application. Altcoins that do not meet the needs of the market will be eliminated and replaced by better altcos. I often invest in new and potential altcoins because it is a great opportunity for you to invest and work together on your project.

True. Though there are so many projects, it is difficult to filter out the "good" ones. I usually looked at the coins whose concept interested me. As an idea, I think the decentralized currency that we initially liked and aimed for is no more.

Quote from: hlk251 on February 17, 2018, 09:32:42 PM

whitelist/idea, number of competitors and marcetcap forecast.

these three things will help for the beginning.

then you should check that what happened after xxxcoin listed in an exhange. is it going down or up?

As I understand after the initial investment there are multiple approaches to trading - short and long term, which can work. Though I'm uncertain if the usual approaches hold true for crpto trading - in that since the value of so many coins fluctuate violently and there is a chance of a large downturn, if there are better ways to control loss or profits.