Naturally, you are always risking when you start working on the market of crypto. Avoiding some losses here is almost impossible, but you can also earn a lot especially if you invest in different alts, many of them.
Yes it is a matter of choices. Every investment will undergo some risk because cryptocurrency is unpredictable and be very volatile in behavior. And to anticipate the risk we need to have an anticipation ideas if ones fail then there is another one to diversify to overcome the possible losses. Because in the first place there is no such successful investors that not undergone losses at first because successful investors learns in every losses they get. And this will motivate them greatly to be the most successful and experienced investors and knows more ideas how to manage risk in a simple way with great profit to earned besides of the big risk encountered.