- Check the coinmarketcap.com and choose ones with high volume
If you look closely at those charts for the most popular coins you can see that the graphs are almost identical.
This means that all altcoins depend on the behavior of bitcoin. If there is a dump on the market you can buy whatever you want - in a week or two it will go up and you will receive your profit.
But before buying an altcoin just make a research on the project it supports and see whether it has a prospective idea.