As far as I'm concerned, you can avoid risks only if you hold.
Even that is no guarantee! Long term you will lose if no person will buy crypto, because there is a new product at the market or there is a crisis in the economy.
There are many ways to get nice profits short time for example this:
https://www.digistore24.com/content/181197/16697/Miguel2010/CAMPAIGNKEYCryptos are no physical product and you can't eat them. The value only is virtual
In fact if you are going to make a big profit from bitcoin you must take a big risk, so the margin of profit and risk of losing money is same, its up to you that either to afford the big risk to take for big money or not.