Don't beat yourself up, you did what you felt was best for you and assuming you came out successful you'll be laughing at our faces now so you should just know mistakes happen. And the most important thing is that you learn from the mistakes to take corrections in bettering your trading life.

It's always not advisable to invest in alts using your bitcoin when it's on a rally, the chances of you losing your bitcoin is more than you profiting from the trade. Assuming you entered with fiats that's a different scenarios as you can always have an increase in USD but that of satoshi value is bond to fall.

Your investment in ripple was all about bad timing as people still made huge profit shorting it. And also the spot traders made some profits after the first retraced happened nevertheless I hope you learn one or two lessons from this experience of yours.