No other coin really compares to Bitcoin. Many people often argue that investing in Bitcoin is less profitable, on the other hand, there are some ALT coins that have higher temporary profits. Bitcoin is one of the most reliable digital currency for investment and I think it would be foolish to compare Bitcoin with any other coin. So far, I have not seen as much news about any other crypto currency in the market as I have seen about Bitcoin in various media. Big companies invest in Bitcoin and rely on Bitcoin. If the ALT coins in the market were reliable then big companies or rich people would invest in ALT coins. We are small investors so instead of trusting all these ALT coins we should trust Bitcoin and invest Bitcoin and that will be the right decision for us.
People who argue that investing is less profitable are either traders or people who don't know the potential of Bitcoin and also what long term investment is all about. Just imagine people who invested in Bitcoin 2014, 2015 and has a good fraction of Bitcoin in their portfolio do you know how rich they are now and then compare to people who have been trading it since then and making profit and losing it, it is entirely a different thing. Investing and holding still remains the best way to go about Bitcoin investment. The only reason why companies are investing in Bitcoin is because they have seen what Bitcoin holds in the future. Dude your third to last line seems confusing, does it mean that if small investors are not suppose to trust Altcoin, is it big investors that are suppose to trust Altcoin?
They can't get anything with taking short goal with Bitcoin because the movement will provably not high as they think and losing chances is so high that's why its never advisable to trade it for short period of time.
That's the reason people consider to make everything for long term because if we look at the price history of Bitcoin we could see some good growth of its price so provably that we can earn more better without getting involve to much on stressful market activities. Holding always the best option since if you look at price historical data of Bitcoin those people who decide to accumulate Bitcoin before are provably could cash some good profits now. But also for sure those people who engage on trading's provably get disrupted by many series of long bearish run and I don't think those scenarios are profitable to them.