Every new trader makes a lot of mistakes. You should not regret the loss of profit, you should rejoice at the successes that have already been achieved. When you have more experience you will be able to feel the market and get the most out of it.

It is only our responsibility to find out whether some ICO project is worth participating because there are so many fake ones in the market that you do need to spend time and research before joining them.

The value of many Altcoin are combination of developers work and weeks,  months and years of continuous development and community support.  It will be not be accurate to say most Altcoin are worth nothing.

Let's observe what will going to happen but for now I'm happy because it's way more positive than the other month I'm hoping that the price still continue to go higher so by that I can get a profit.

I prefer litecoin. Litecoin is more popular than ripple. And it also expected to grow this year. While ripple doenst have a good short term probability outlook this year