I personally believe that the best way to actually make a profit is to catch which coin has a great future planned for it and nothing else.

If you want to invest into a brand new one, something that doesn't even exist right now but will be listed and distributed in a few months, you could actually see what they can be. How? You could join into a few dozen projects and see their telegrams and twitters, you can see the reactions of the public, obviously this isn't the end of it but you can at least see the reactions, and you can compare them to each other and pick the best ones. Some projects will have few hundred people chatting while others have thousands, some projects will have tens of thousands of likes on twitter whereas others may have over a million. Just compare them to each other and find the one that everyone loves in every platform and you could invest into it.