I agree that it's really all speculation, but right now all coins are seeing a downward spiral - I'm going to try and catch the lowest dip I can. I'm only going to invest 2BTC right now so alts seem to be the best way to gain capital with such a low investment, hopefully with short term gains I'll be able to move money into more secure coins like BTC/ETC.

My plan is to hold 60% for the long term and use 40% for short term in every coin I invest in - hopefully, my short term gains will allow me to diversify my portfolio and create more long-term holdings.

Right now I'm just having issues with figuring out how many coins I should invest in w/ 2BTC - I don't want to thin my money out investing in a bunch of different coins, but at the same time I don't want to limit myself to just a couple.

Thanks for the advice, I'm definitely waiting until market correction - not trying to buy into a falling knife.

I'm pretty new to trading, currently trying to digest as much information as possible - just have a few questions that I would like to get opinions on...

I'm looking to invest 2BTC into the market. Since my initial is pretty low, I plan on investing the majority of my money into alts. I want to play 60/40 with each coin I invest in, keeping 60% into long-term holds and using 40% for short... hopefully, to get my initial back to invest into bigger coins.

My question is how many coins would be a healthy amount to invest in with just 2BTC? I don't want to spread my money into too many coins since I'll be holding 60% in each coin long term and only playing 40% in short, but then again I don't want to keep my portfolio too small putting myself in a 1 basket situation.

I'm currently looking at:

Siacoin < made 15% during the dip yesterday - wish I had my deposit in from Coinbase so I could've invested a lot more in the market dips, o well :/
Verge
Ark
Ardor
Antshares/NEO
Steem

Other coins I'm looking at as well:

BAT
Golem
Nxt
IOTA

Would appreciate any advice or input,
Cheers