I think, that hodl is better if you can't trade active. It needs a lot of experience and knowledge. Hodl can also make big profits, but needs more time, cause you need to wait (sometimes a lot). But the market isn't gonna grow soon, so I suppose, that it's good to invest in some good ICO. For example ElonCity. This project has good idea and good partner. Their idea is making energy accesible and cheaper and their partner is Krypital Group, which had four succesful partnerships before. So I think, that theese factors can make some earings for you even in market like this