I preferred a long term investment, slowly but surely!
Yes, but before you'll make that decision you need to know what that kind of investment or token that you invest in because if you put your money in investment that you really don't know, there is a possibility to lose all your money.
Let me capture it from another angle because poor people or people with poor financial situations can not look at this investment or trading with these coins requires starting money and they do not have enough to start. There is a solution if they start with less valuable coins either Altcoin or Litecoin in order to make some profit and experience with it so that they will be able to upgrade to the Bitcoin. So for long term investment or trading source they should do with short term first.