What do you mean "projects you had followed"? Are it is about you buy a coins or did you take part of the ICO? But in any case, it all depends on you. All of us, too, were newbie and have gone this way. We were also mistaken, sometimes supporting fraudulent projects (this applies to the ICO and buying coins of bad projects). You can not achieve something meaningful without making mistakes. Mistakes should not put before you the question of leaving crypto trading, mistakes should show you how you should not act in the future. So no need to think that newbie can not successfully enter the market of cryptocurrency now, because such a statement doesn't correspond to reality.