Looks like you're going for the lesser known, potential 100x times coins. That's a really good idea, but it might also be worth considering putting a bit of your portfolio into safer, bigger alts such as ETH, Cardano, etc. which are somewhat lower risk relative to these. Conversely, you could go for higher risk and invest in PnD groups like this or this which can potentially lead to very large, quick profits, but there is also larger risk so invest with caution.

if you're investing long term? Read white-papers, look at the devs, future partnerships, roadmaps, etc. It's all relevant to the potential future success of the coin 6 months, 1 year, 2 years down the line. Day-trading? Doesn't matter much so long as you analyse the graphs, but in such a heavily manipulated market its somewhat dangerous to rely on these behaviours.

I'm pretty sure everyone here knows what ripple is...I'm pretty sure everyone also knows Ripple is about as centralised as coins get. While you could probably make a profit off of it, I wouldn't advise supporting it in the long run. However, it is worth mentioning the devs are now planning on taking steps to decentralise the coin, but the success of this remains to be seen.

The markets honestly not even falling by much, just maintaining stability. I think we've all gotten so used to seeing green across the board that a net zero movement feels like a bear market to us.

Yep, already 4x, looks like a quality project with a solid roadmap.

For short term, groups such as this can often help with calls, at least to get you started before you start making your own calls. I've had ITC and TRX called for me.

It's still Rank 250 in terms of market cap, realistically it has the potential to 20x or 30x IMO.

Hard to know for small coins, Oyster Pearl is good, also consider Deeponion (2018 is year of the privacy coins). You might also wanna consider PnD groups such as this although its risky so I'd be careful if I were you.

lots of alts out there, REQ is good idea imo, probably worth checking out ITC as well.

Following on the privacy theme, DeepOnion might be a good idea for low-market cap coins if thats what your looking for.

imo too much XRP, maybe bring that down a little. Also, might be worth considering a low cap coin with lots of potential.

Prob some space in there for really low market cap coins such as DeepOnion or Oyster Pearl, ITC also likely to grow, would look into those three.

All it takes is a 60-70% increase for ripple right now, and its market cap will be larger than bitcoin's, I think it's a very genuine concern. That would, in a sense, officially mean institutional money controls crypto. Although, this is assuming BTC remains where it is, which is unlikely tbh.

Short term is more risky and harder to do but you can make more imo if you know what you're doing. One thing that makes it easier is groups such as this, that PnD coins to 2x or 3x profit. Keep in mind though its still riskier than long term.

Following on this, I feel like DeepOnion and Komodo have large growth potential, both privacy coins (although deeponion is a much smaller market cap), so I'd try either.

Some people were claiming that wraith is broken as a privacy feature and that the IP's of all the wallets are freely available, although I can't verify that tbh.

Any altcoin if you Pump and Dump it lmao. Check out these groups, here and here. Risky but you can (and i have) make 2-3x profit (albeit the first one is much more successful than the second in my experience).

Most people here suggesting BTC and ETH as safe bets. While this is a good idea, I would also consider investing ~20-30% on some low market-cap promising alts, such as DeepOnion or COSS, in the circumstance that one of them moons, as well as more well known alts such as ADA or XLM.

Another idea, while more risky, could be allotting another 15% for PnD's, such as this one , which can potentially net 2x, 3x, or even 4x, although the risk is larger, so invest with caution.

Komodo would be my pick there there IMO, professional dev team and has picked up steam recently, I used to mine it before it 4x.

Usually through pump and dump.
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