I recently shifted some focus from Bitcoin to altcoins. In the beginning, I chased hype and it didn’t go well. The times I did better were when I slowed down, read about the project, and made my own decision instead of following noise.
It feels like patience pays more than hype-chasing in this space.
You were not doing wrongly at first for chasing hype, it just that you weren't lucky enough to meet the right one. Most of the altcoin that usually takes time to perform well are the layer 1 blockchain based coin, if you focus more on them and be patient with it, you'll definitely make massive profits enough.
Getting lucky investing in good altcoins projects can fade also which is why we don't have to rely too much on altcoins market because it is very hard to differentiate the good projects from the bad ones due to so many scam projects in the market, ready to crash the price when they have gotten the number of buyers they want.
Investing in Bitcoin is the only safest way to stay profitable even though have been so many speculations investors can make bigger profits in the crypto market without waiting for too long. Op made the mistake to think that there is huge profits waiting for him in the altcoins market which was not.