surely if you buy a shitcoin, it may never go to ATH. But if you buy a good potential coin it may touch ATH in some years again. The best strategy i follow is when a coin price 2X from my buying, i take out my initial investment. In this way i am not worried about my money and is left with only free coins.
It is very extraordinary the effort you put into this, because that way there is definitely no burden and risk to bear, yes, even though predicting ATH is not easy, it will definitely happen to potential coins, because it is very clear that ATH will not happens to any shitcoin and in any time.