Altcoin investment is very unpredictable. Trading in mercatox for example; I wont pointpick a name of a coin for respect also, but I wonder why the coins there that are listed just by the voting strategy defeated a coin that's been listed through paying the exchange. What I try to mean is I invest on this certain coin there that is listed there because they paid mercatox. Then I just ignore investing the other coin there that are just being listed there because they win the voting process. And I also do a thorough research before I invest like their website,social media sites,team and whitepaper, so in your mind I think you'll better invest to the other one that pay the exchange right? And that time they are still roughly at 5 gwei each the two coins.
Now a 3 or 4 weeks later, the one blooming in price instead is the coin that won the voting. And the one Im investing is still stagnant. God damn it. I hate trading anymore. So tire trading already, no luck on it, urghh..
I think the exchanges reputation will also affect with the token or coins prices as mercatox is not a top caliber exchanges that can creates huge volatility and hype on the token. Better try to trade on exchanges like binance or kucoin and see the difference from mercatox. Although this will depends on the developer to push their project to a reality to increase the demand. This is also the reason why those top exchanges are high listing fees as they have the support and trust to their traders. Don't give-up that easily, you can still get back those losses if you learn from your mistakes.