Anyone know any recent successful ICOs that might go this direction?

It is not necessary to talk about fraud here. You do not understand the very definition of fraud. I will not explain to you the meaning of this concept. But the topic. People buy Ethereum not only to earn. They buy to participate in the ICO, to transfer the altcoins from their wallet, since the transaction must be paid. Still buy Ethereum, when they sell some coins, but did not decide what to do next, so they leave the investment temporarily in the Ethereum. What you write is an absolute nonsense.

I think it is still too early for ETH to reach $ 2,000 because February is probably the best time for Bitcoin to raise prices and this will prevent altcoin from getting high prices. I guess June ETH can reach $ 2,000 and by the end of 2018 ETH will reach $ 5,000

The Ignis future price was manipulated. The volume was really low and I think that the NXT market maker manipulated the Ignis future price so that many people buy into Nxt for "free coins".

I am taking a look at the market prices right now, and I think these coins under $1.00 are going to give us up to 100 times the value potentially:

*Electroneum
*Trade Token
*Tron
*Cardano
*Siacoin
*Dentacoin
*Quantstamp
*Verge
*Reddcoin
*Digibyte
*Experience Points
*Bytecoin
*Stellar
*BitShares

I only have Electroneum, Trade Token and Tron on my list, but would like to invest to the rest once I have additional funds coming in.

You never know when the price stops falling.
You can buy the coins you want with your available money at once, or (as I do) divide your money in 3 - 4 parts and start buying using every time one part of them. I think it is called dollar-cost averaging.
This strategy is a way to avoid the volatility of the market because you are averaging prices over time.
You took a good desision buying at the dips, you'll never make money just sitting on the sidelines

People who doesn't experience holding for so long and acquired the corresponding profit from it doesn't obviously know how to act properly. Once they experienced it like others, they'll definitely learn to love long-term holding. 

Ripple has a lot of interest at financial institutions.  That's not going to change.

We started on the right foot so yeah, Altcoins will do great this year, same goes for the ICO. The ones that will be successful will see a greatly price increase. Altcoins are on the rise, the good one are really thriving and 2018 might be the year when the dust finally settles and the community embraces the serious projects. A lot of fresh money is entering cryptomarkets, most of it to altcoins

Ethereum is already on the top, which currently ranks at #2 with a market value of $1,375.66. I don't mean that it doesn't still have a potential to rise up, as the crypto market don't have any ceiling which might be a hindrance for the growth of its value. It's just that you need a lot of capital in order to gain huge amount of profits by investing through this coin. Since you are risking money to invest, why not choose other coins which already have a small value and does have a bright future in the digital currency market. It will be worth the risk instead gaining a couple of dollars by focusing on Ethereum.

The current rise of ETC is due to coming hardfork by the end of January. Honestly i dont believe much in ETC future as the "ground breaking" coin, but we can see some pattern here.

Firstly ETH rising to ATH (1300 dollars) then ETC going for bullrun to 7 to 10% of ETH. With the coming hardfork I strongly believe that ETC is going to hit 80 to 100 dollars in next 14 days.

Yes this coin has almost been forgotten now. Don't think it will 10x though, there is no hype at all around it and development seems poor too.