every investment has a period of time to get a profit scheme and how much to take it but behind that we can fall and fall if we choose the wrong place to invest funds both in the crypto world or stocks, it's just that the crypto world is more risky unless we choose a coin or token that it's solit and reliable as said:
When it comes to solid investment then a long term hold with earn you a much better profit and that is the same with BTCitcoin, but if you take the rest of the market you cannot have the same trust as majority of the projects may not succeed in the long run and hence you cannot have the same level of confidence like any other market.
If you still have the doubts, check out how many projects have failed in the last year alone, the numbers are alarmingly high. But if there is a solid project with good team then you can hope that they will fulfil what they started.