You can try buy some altcoins with perspective future, but firstly your should analyze project,idea and team of coin which you want to buy on hold
It's a terrible suggestion for a newbie. First of all newbies don't have the experience to tell which alts are good and which of them aren't, reading the wp can be the most boring thing so they would just end up throwing their money into a random project hoping to end up winning like in a lottery.