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Title: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: V.Pelewin on June 09, 2017, 01:16:17 PM
Been a longtime silent reader and am very grateful to this community. There is a lot of rubbish being posted here but also so much to learn and some really bright minds.

I was a little late to Bitcoin (or so I thought) and my first investment was in XMR which is still my favourite and my majority holding.

Recently, I've decided to expand my portfolio and am looking to get some feedback. I've based my investments on the information I've found mostly here and am looking for solid projects which are still undervalued. I know that some will argue that everything is in a huge bubble now and must pop while others think that crypto is just in it's infancy and will grow to much bigger volumes. I think corrections will always be there but as a long time investor this doesn't really matter as cryptocurrencies will grow much more and gain importance in the future.

I am only interested in long time holding and have no interest in day trading and don't mind the volatility. XMR hast taught my to keep calm during the bumps on the road.

My holdings are the following (in order of volume I hold):

- XMR
- BTC
- ETH
- AEON
- SHIFT
- ARK
- VIA (apparently they have a new developer and lots happening here)
- BAY
- NXS
- STRAT
- BLOCK
- MER
- LBC
- DAR
- XEM

I know there are more interesting coins but I don't have that much to invest, so I had to make a choice...


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: shamzblueworld on June 09, 2017, 01:21:55 PM
Nice looking portfolio, some big coins there. Why not Ripple?
And for how long have you kept these coins or this is your recent investments?


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: V.Pelewin on June 09, 2017, 01:32:42 PM
Ripple scares me, there are so many and the majority is owned by a corporation. I like to believe in a project (like I did (and  still do) with XMR when I first invested in it) and that's hard for me with Ripple. I also have problems with ETH (for example it not being decentralized). The main reason I bought ETH (just a few at 40$) so it wouldn't upset me anymore when it rose. But I think it would be a big blow to the world of crypto if ETH was number one.

I bought some SHIFT at $0,40 and made some good returns so far but I am staying in as this seems like a really good project.

I bought Stratis at $3,70 and it went up after that.

I don't have a lot to invest but I don't depend on making any immediate returns so I want to hodl long time in the chance of making a small fortune. I also want to support the projects I believe in and holding long time is a good way of doing so. Some people on this forum seem to only see crypto as their pump and dump vehicle and do not appreciate how amazing this technology is.


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: HardFireMiner on June 09, 2017, 01:37:25 PM
Nice portfolio, good job, I am a more shy crypto holder, so my list consist of:
BTC
ETH
ETC
Expanse
Musicoin
Siacoin

In that order


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: ymig1 on June 09, 2017, 01:48:31 PM
Add ZEN


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: V.Pelewin on June 09, 2017, 06:24:48 PM
Any other opinions? Is there anything I should add or remove?

Why ZEN? How does it distinguish itself from ZCL?


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: Speakmore on June 09, 2017, 07:49:12 PM
I just got into this a bit recently (been reading forum sites for close to 3 weeks now) and have made a few investments (not sure it's `a lot` - depends on your definition of a lot, relatively speaking) which can be viewed here (https://altpocket.io/user/Speakmore) if you're interested.

I see you're already in STRAT, so my second biggest holding will be my potential suggestion to read up on:

Waves (WAVES):
https://wavesplatform.com/
https://blog.wavesplatform.com/waves-whitepaper-164dd6ca6a23
http://wavescommunity.com/
http://wavesplatform.herokuapp.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wavesplatform/
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/waves/
Ways to buy: http://wavescommunity.com/buy-waves/

This should give you a decent start, the rest is up to you! I don't encourage you invest without researching yourself, so best of luck buddy!


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: Gandalf86 on June 11, 2017, 11:30:20 AM
You seem to have the right attitude! If you want my personal advice: Try to catch smaller coins BEFORE they get big. Waiting and searching for such a coin is the main activity of investors like us, and it can take a long time and patience until you find it. That way, you can easily make 100x profit within a year or so, depending on your talent for finding promising projects. Personally, I (usually) don't buy any coins that have a market cap over 500K USD.


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: LuciferUA on June 11, 2017, 11:38:49 AM
I just got into this a bit recently (been reading forum sites for close to 3 weeks now) and have made a few investments (not sure it's `a lot` - depends on your definition of a lot, relatively speaking) which can be viewed here (https://altpocket.io/user/Speakmore) if you're interested.

I see you're already in STRAT, so my second biggest holding will be my potential suggestion to read up on:

Waves (WAVES):
https://wavesplatform.com/
https://blog.wavesplatform.com/waves-whitepaper-164dd6ca6a23
http://wavescommunity.com/
http://wavesplatform.herokuapp.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wavesplatform/
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/waves/
Ways to buy: http://wavescommunity.com/buy-waves/

This should give you a decent start, the rest is up to you! I don't encourage you invest without researching yourself, so best of luck buddy!

Waves has a promissing future that is for sure. I would add Lisk, and depending on how the ICO turns out Bancor.


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: loreRex on June 11, 2017, 02:36:32 PM
XMR on top? So you really think that anonymity will be of primal importance in the future? I'm not convinced at all, the good thing is that XMR is still a sub 100 dollar coin and it's reasonable to see 100-200 dollars in the future, but then I would sell there.

BTC and ETH are the real long term.

In the list, Ark seems to me the most promising.

I would personally add  Golem, Litecoin and Aragon, and reduce XMR to third spot.


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: powergear on June 11, 2017, 05:46:36 PM
Spectrecoin, iExec, Synereo, Aeternity (ico ended lately) and komodo


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: krypt0n1 on June 11, 2017, 11:21:00 PM
You seem to have the right attitude! If you want my personal advice: Try to catch smaller coins BEFORE they get big. Waiting and searching for such a coin is the main activity of investors like us, and it can take a long time and patience until you find it. That way, you can easily make 100x profit within a year or so, depending on your talent for finding promising projects. Personally, I (usually) don't buy any coins that have a market cap over 500K USD.

What are some of your main criteria other than market cap? How far do you go into fundamentals of the project?


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: Gandalf86 on June 12, 2017, 07:31:25 AM
You seem to have the right attitude! If you want my personal advice: Try to catch smaller coins BEFORE they get big. Waiting and searching for such a coin is the main activity of investors like us, and it can take a long time and patience until you find it. That way, you can easily make 100x profit within a year or so, depending on your talent for finding promising projects. Personally, I (usually) don't buy any coins that have a market cap over 500K USD.

What are some of your main criteria other than market cap? How far do you go into fundamentals of the project?

  • Innovative tech, i.e. could we use another coin to achieve the same thing?
  • Simple idea. If I don't understand the concept within a few minutes, I'm not interested
  • Not too big. This is the same for market cap as for ICO. Too many people wanting their part of the cake is not good for profit.
  • Catchy name.
  • Good and communicating and friendly dev, who's not primarily interested in profit but innovation. This one is VERY important.
  • Dev is NOT concerned about getting on big exchanges quickly.
  • The thread has a positive spirit.
  • People say it's undervalued.

Sometimes not all of these points have to be fulfilled, but most of them.


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: 25hashcoin on June 12, 2017, 08:27:05 AM
I would take a look at ETC and CLOAK.


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: krypt0n1 on June 12, 2017, 12:06:19 PM
You seem to have the right attitude! If you want my personal advice: Try to catch smaller coins BEFORE they get big. Waiting and searching for such a coin is the main activity of investors like us, and it can take a long time and patience until you find it. That way, you can easily make 100x profit within a year or so, depending on your talent for finding promising projects. Personally, I (usually) don't buy any coins that have a market cap over 500K USD.

What are some of your main criteria other than market cap? How far do you go into fundamentals of the project?

  • Innovative tech, i.e. could we use another coin to achieve the same thing?
  • Simple idea. If I don't understand the concept within a few minutes, I'm not interested
  • Not too big. This is the same for market cap as for ICO. Too many people wanting their part of the cake is not good for profit.
  • Catchy name.
  • Good and communicating and friendly dev, who's not primarily interested in profit but innovation. This one is VERY important.
  • Dev is NOT concerned about getting on big exchanges quickly.
  • The thread has a positive spirit.
  • People say it's undervalued.

Sometimes not all of these points have to be fulfilled, but most of them.

Thanks for taking the time to share and write that out!


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: gvozdik on June 12, 2017, 12:10:19 PM
and is here today any similar inovative, not to big and cheap coin? Maybe Verge?


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: Pierre 2 on June 13, 2017, 06:39:12 AM
Verge is good coin, but I can't be sure to see if its gonna be pumped.
But you can hold it in your portfolio just normally, its safe coin.
I also like Waves.


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: gvozdik on June 13, 2017, 06:55:32 AM
Pierre 2 thanks, and what you think about Sia?


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: CoinCollector006 on June 13, 2017, 11:25:44 AM
Hello V Pelewin. i think you have a decent portfolio and I sure a number of names with you BTC, ETC, XMR, NEM, DAR , VIA, BAY, NXS

Other names with potential are ABY, ZEN, VOX. All of these are below $15M market cap so have multi bagger potential.

In the higher market cap range you can consider FCT and SC. even if you don't have much to invest $50 to $100 can make a large difference on the low market cap cryptos. if you have any doubt of this please look at the chart of Verge or Reddcoin.


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: copperKO on June 13, 2017, 04:16:52 PM
Recommend looking into ubiq and waves, both very active and growing projects, probably still undervalued


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: subzero01 on June 13, 2017, 08:43:44 PM
You seem to have the right attitude! If you want my personal advice: Try to catch smaller coins BEFORE they get big. Waiting and searching for such a coin is the main activity of investors like us, and it can take a long time and patience until you find it. That way, you can easily make 100x profit within a year or so, depending on your talent for finding promising projects. Personally, I (usually) don't buy any coins that have a market cap over 500K USD.

What are some of your main criteria other than market cap? How far do you go into fundamentals of the project?

  • Innovative tech, i.e. could we use another coin to achieve the same thing?
  • Simple idea. If I don't understand the concept within a few minutes, I'm not interested
  • Not too big. This is the same for market cap as for ICO. Too many people wanting their part of the cake is not good for profit.
  • Catchy name.
  • Good and communicating and friendly dev, who's not primarily interested in profit but innovation. This one is VERY important.
  • Dev is NOT concerned about getting on big exchanges quickly.
  • The thread has a positive spirit.
  • People say it's undervalued.

Sometimes not all of these points have to be fulfilled, but most of them.

Thanks for your method of investigating futur prospective cryptos.

Could you tell me which coins are in your favorite list atm?


Title: Re: Expanding my portfolio
Post by: Gandalf86 on June 14, 2017, 09:54:06 AM
You seem to have the right attitude! If you want my personal advice: Try to catch smaller coins BEFORE they get big. Waiting and searching for such a coin is the main activity of investors like us, and it can take a long time and patience until you find it. That way, you can easily make 100x profit within a year or so, depending on your talent for finding promising projects. Personally, I (usually) don't buy any coins that have a market cap over 500K USD.

What are some of your main criteria other than market cap? How far do you go into fundamentals of the project?

  • Innovative tech, i.e. could we use another coin to achieve the same thing?
  • Simple idea. If I don't understand the concept within a few minutes, I'm not interested
  • Not too big. This is the same for market cap as for ICO. Too many people wanting their part of the cake is not good for profit.
  • Catchy name.
  • Good and communicating and friendly dev, who's not primarily interested in profit but innovation. This one is VERY important.
  • Dev is NOT concerned about getting on big exchanges quickly.
  • The thread has a positive spirit.
  • People say it's undervalued.

Sometimes not all of these points have to be fulfilled, but most of them.

Thanks for your method of investigating futur prospective cryptos.

Could you tell me which coins are in your favorite list atm?

I am currently holding Espers (ESP) and Spectre (XSPEC), which both used to be below 500K and fulfill most of the above requirements, but are not so cheap any more  ;)

There's one other crypto that I am currently accumulating, but obviously I can't tell you about it yet.

There is also Flavorcoin (FLVR) from my signature, but who knows whether it will be successful one day... it has a great potential but only if you have a really long breath.  ;) It's the only cheap coin in my list so far, with a market cap of $20,000 USD.