I got the same experience when I started trading a month ago. I bought a fairly new altcoin a couple of days after it went in the exchange. I did my research and everything and saw potential in it. So I eagerly bought when when it was low, not speculating that it will go lower and down it did go. Never purchase in a pump when you have already missed the dip. It is safer except you want to take a huge risk after reading some news of sort or after monitoring the past market trades.
Do not get so excited yet, the real thing will come. You need to invest time and patience for you to stay on the platform of trading and for you to learn more ways for you to earn just consider having alternative crypto-currencies that you may have and trade as a part of your trading. Do not get greedy and do not give up if you have some failures and some lose of money. If you are willing to take the risk on trading in order for you to earn it is actually a good thing to start on investing on different alternative crypto-currencies. You will experience that but you must survive. Altcoin can make a good movement in the market. That is the only thing for you to succeed in trading.