Sorry for the hot take, but if you can't afford the BitBox02 or Trezor Model T, something's not working out with those alt trades. If you can't make $200 in a reasonable amount of time with your alts, I'd personally recommend sticking to BTC..
Lol, I was thinking the same thing. I wanted to be easy on the OP and not berate him for shitcoining. Still, your post is
just diplomatic enough to get the point across without going overboard deriding shitcoins. Some alts have there uses, i.e Monero and hopefully, eventually, Grin. Some might be useful if you want to try your had at swing trading, but I don't know of any that worth holding.
I'm not an expert on alts, but most of the time someone mentions one, I check the price history against BTC and they almost always look terrible as a store of value. In this case, Monero seems to be quite okay, but Grin lost against Bitcoin consistently basically since its inception, from what I can tell.