this all originally started with new people coming on to this thread complaining that they believe that some people get privileged information and positions allowing them to make money of new entrants, and those people believe that it is unfair.
apparently the old timers in this community, except for me, respond with: too bad so sad, sucks to be you.
very nice way to grow the community... not.
This is an open source project. XCP, like most cryptocurrency tokens, is a new and misunderstood commodity. There is no obligation, regulation or precedent for announcing updates to the Counterparty Protocol software or new projects being built on top of Counterparty. On top of all of that, XCP has little liquidity and is not traded on a single high quality exchange (e.g. Kraken, Bitstamp, etc.).
You are right, it is unfortunate that some people may have lost some fiat currency over a very short time scale because they wanted to flip XCP.
Here are some guidelines for so-called XCP "investors":
Seek out information from every possible channel at every possible opportunity
Buy XCP to use it (spend it, issue assets, run smart contracts etc.)
Never spend more money than you can afford to completely lose
Contribute to the Counterparty Protocol yourself in whatever way you can
Be patient. (Ch)Rome wasn't built in a day.