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Basically is this how its done to receive a profit on Cryptocurrency?

or just invest when research and news is done.

Thank you

how to choose any coin from the ico and invest? I think its very tough to do so

No, not necessarily you get a profit, even that you get is a loss, because all the coins at the time of entering the market the price is very destroyed, you better invest when the coin already in the market

It depends on the ICO you invest in. Sometimes you can buy a coin at a lower price in markets. Note that it's not general an sometimes you can buy coins in ICOs and a make a good profit due to get some bonuses as reward. Anyway you should check out projects before investing and decide.

So best point of entry is when the coin enters the market and seems promising?

Also can you hold money in USDT on standby for till a new coin enters the market?

It isn't that easy. Before knowing what (the coin and the concept behind it) and whom (the company as well as the owners) you are investing for and doing complete research about the coin, you should never invest in an ICO. Must have seen that SkyWay scam, right? Many users thought they will get a huge share but after searching and going through SkyWay's real website and chatting with their representatives (even I did that), we all came to know that they were just trying to scam everyone. So, trusting any company blindly and putting our money there is not a good choice, but waiting till the first week starts or checking before about the coin and then investing could give serious returns over your investment if it turns out to be the one as expected.

Lots of ICOS are outright scams, some more intricate than others, so you ought to be extremely critical and do your own thourough research. The SEC today ruled that DAO'S (And ICOS) can be considered securities, meaning in the long run, i belive that the industry will be regulated and the scamming will get harder. But in any case, verify info on many different sources (website, social media, forums) before you invest your hard earned crypto/cash

Last year and several months ago this may have been the case.

Back then there were real projects being released with long planning and recource gathering along with it.

Now, there are mostly get rich fast schemes for the ones that run the ICO.

It depends, but you can support a project buying this coins from ICO stage and hold until the team reach maturity in their product or services, Tomorrow is the last day to buy Dent tokens, this token is for the mobile data industry, so user buy and sell unused mobile data.

That's definitely true, anyone who planning to invest their hard-earned money in ICO should exercise caution and perform due diligence.

Basically, not every ICO is succeed, if it is not, the price after ICO will be decreased or even if that ICO is succeed, after ICO, there may be many people sell their coins, it could lead the price go down.

Buy new altcoins in ICO stage not = profit. this mean you are investing and investment then you will get profit or you will lost your money :)

Its not just.on its sells but sometimes you jave to know what is the coin offering or what is its function. Because this coins now arent just for mining but they are now integrating functions such as bank affiliations or how to transact artworks. Also being familiar with its developer can be a goos impact on the flow an ico. Many have now became victims of false promises by some ico during the early staged but i can see now that most people are now well informed when it comes to things like this.

You are correct mate. Invest only after enough research and news (not just FUD and shallow hype) are done. Buying on or after ICO is not anymore immaterial. There are tokens that grow much higher in price right after ICO. There are also those whose prices go all the way down rock bottom after ICO. And there are ICOs that are simply scam, many of them. Study all of them before investing.

It basically depends on what the coin or entity can offer that isn't already existing, like something specific in its own fields which will help for better and efficient transactions. Not to mention, a majority of the coins end up as 'shitcoins' because they have nothing new or specific to offer and if you bought coins during their ICO, you are surely to incur a loss.

Looking at the SEC ruling of yesterday I would stay away from ICOS and go to coins that were distributed in a non ico way. So basically only community coins without a company attached to it

No it's not that tough on doing it so. Just read their updates and look on their plans. The team itself you need to check it out so that you can have an assurance that the ICO will be successful and will not just run the investments coming from you. And this is how ICO's stage are giving bonuses from early investors.

not all

It is one way to earn but that way is very risky, you need to do a lot of research and obtain a lot of information before invest in ICO, for me it is not a good way to earn because there are a lot of scammer and it's too hard to predict the result of an ICO, I prefer to do trading to earn

well if lucks permits you for sure you will gain from this but if not you are also risking your hard earned money as we knew that most of the project nowadays are turning into a scam or seeing the downside after reaching inside the exchange and some got its own reasons or issue to not to continue
its better to research or choose some project which already been developed.

There are some good ICO's going on right now and if the venture has got already its usage then it will be a success as there will be practical real users who will use that currency when the coin will be released. You need to see how the community is responding to the new coin and check its usages in the real world.

I think buying coins at the time of ICO is very difficult to predict, whether this ICO will work or not. But if you are a businessman / trader, of course the loss is absolute and not to be feared. If ICO succeeds and when entering the market it exceeds the price of ICO, that is your advantage. But if after entering the market the price drops, save and wait until it rises back or sell with losses. If ICO fails to meet the target but your funds are returned, it's still safe. But if ICO is unsuccessful but funds are not refunded on the grounds of being hacked or other reasons. That's the risk of a trader

there is no guarantee for us when we buy new altcoin in ICO stage, we can make big profit. because a good ICO will be supports by the dev and the team and after ICO is end, they will still work for the coins. they will work hard to make sure that their coins is always grow from time to time and they need to give the best work they can. if everything is good, then we can see the coins will be survive in the market and the coins will have huge fans. but its hard to find what is the coins that will be survive after ICO is end so we need to be careful to choose the ICO.

Buy only an ICO if the coin's business model is good and the people behind the coin project are good.
Based from my experience the price of ICO is higher than the price of coin compare to its price when they entered in exchanges.
So sometimes its better to buy on exchanges where you can buy the coin on much cheaper price than ICO.

I remember that some that some "study" was conducted here by some members. The result were if you invested the same amount in all the major ICOs since the beginning of the year, you would be at a profit. And that would be even bigger if you selected only the good ones.

Yeah, I recall something similar: random 10 picks, even if  8 dies, 2 that make >5x profit more than covers everything. Of course, who has enough to make 10 picks. I don't even have 1 BTC and with majority ICOs in ETH, I hesitate to change BTC to ETH.

I don't think there is any kind of restriction on the minimum investment, as long as it is realistic (so not 5000 satoshis). For this reason, instead of 1BTC you could put 0,1BTC, or even 0,05BTC per ICO. Or even less if you do not have this.

ICO as a business is booming at the moment and it got very hard to decide what is real as they all sound so fantastic but hardy a select few will ever evolve to anything more than a ICO and a speculative currency that fades quicker than it started.
Me personally have made profit out of many a  scam ICO as they tend to spin the best stories and get people on exchange. The new ICO's that happens off exchange well thats not for me. Coinpot faucets ive seen a few awesome sounding ICO's that wont get my investments lol

That's right. Only 2-3% of ICO project's have a future, so, chances to loose is very high. Better to chose altcoin's that already known, like ETH and LTC to feel more safe.
I think all this ICO projects just destroy the market and crypto-currencies, too many fake and unsuccessful projects.

normally all of ICO project offering successfully project too but indeed if they're listed on the market sometimes the particulars altcoins could be experience lack of interest and eventually those altcoins became an dust coin and delisted from the major exchange but not all ICO program has bad future because if you able to choose the exact altcoin i think long term profit would be yours and the research should be required before investing an ICO

This answers all my question

It's like playing the lottery with better odds at winning.

Yes, quite risky but when the ICO's are successful, it s a sure way that you have profit. Also, especially when you bought with discount, you will really gain from ICO's. There are legit ICO's and promising, be vigilant to spot the good one. Do some research before you invest.

i think this is ture if you invest to a good altcoin and if it is a bad coin then fail

I think investing in ICOs is quite profitable though there is always risk involved. Although its risky, but its better than buying coin from exchange since they are expensive and  the value might fall in a month or two. SO the best thing to do, and that is what i usually do, is investing in ICOs, Buying it less and selling when the price is up. If you do this you will def. make more profit.

It is not always necessary that you will get profit by investing in an ICO. The reason is that when the coin listed on exchange may be it will not hold its position and destabilization in price occur so it is wise to invest in the coins which are already listed on exchange. And if you are still interested in an ICO then do some brief research about the project and its scope of success. Beware of Scam ICOs.

99% of the ICO investment is not profitable as when they hit the exchange the bounty coin holders just dump it and you can get the coin below then the ICO price without waiting and when the price increase you can sell and get profit immediately. But in ICO you have to invest and then wait for ICO to finish and then when they deliver the coin till then you have to wait and after that also some coin take time to get listed in exchange. So it is very clear that investing in ICO is not profitable.

quite the opposite, just look how many ICOs are started by newbies/jr members, that you know almost all of them are scams. you are more likely to lose money there.

That is right, without strong community and continuous development, the new altcoins in the ICO stage will turn out to be lower price, which decided by the market. So, do some deep research and choose to hold a long time to see what will happen.

Right, investing in ICOs is a good idea, it easily gives us huge profit margins, we just wait for a very short time. However, do not confuse when you choose ICO, it can kill you.

Talk about investing, we often think of big projects, where we can make a profit. When a project is appreciated, people will pay more attention to investing in it, so the demand of the market will increase, which will increase the value of the currency, creating About the profit margin when the ICO end.

There are profits when buying new altcoins in the ICO period, I think this is not entirely true. This depends on the ICO project you invest in, the value of the altcoin when on the market. If the ICO succeeds well, the altcoin price is high then you will be profitable but if the value of altcoin is not as expected it will drop in price then you will lose. There are also a few ICO that are scams, if you do not find out about it you will run into quite big risks.

Not only that but even when they are getting listed the Bonus ICO investors and bounty hunters will start to sell immediately when the coin get listed and so the price goes below ICO and if you really wanted to buy then you can get that time in low rate. So it is not profitable to invest in ICO.

my theory is don't buy altcoins in ico stage.becouse There are also a few ICO that are scams.if you are still interested in an ICO then do some serious
 research about the project.
but when altcoin come in market  then you will freely buy coins.I think its better.

you will need to find a project that looks promising and that has a low hardcap or is underhyped then you will be able to take good profits.

You have to do your own research because not all ICOs will give you profit, there are many ICOs have dumped after listing on exchanges, like SONM, and Pillar, they might recover their prices and might not.

Everyone would be rich if they could multiply there money by investing in ICO's and selling when the tokens hit exchanges. I am afraid this is not how it works. Be very careful about the ICO's. Most are scams, if not all. Look ath the ICO price of SONM and look at what price it is trading at. Do your research before buying into any ICO.

Something important that i don't think anyone mentioned yet: Don't invest into ICOs who don't show a working product during the token sale! If they're really serious about their project and have a competent team striving for success, they're gonna have something to show to their possible investors. If they don't, back away and put your money somewhere safer and better. You gotta be smart in this extremely volatile system we're operating in.

It is not always like that. In my opinion, it is riskier entering ICO's than when it is already in the market though the profit could be much larger if the ICO pans out. There is always the risk that the ICO is a scam,  the project will not push through or the devs dumping on you when it hits the market leaving you the bag holder.

There are some ico that do not have the clarity of projects such as cooperation, team and advisor, and even without a clear road map, but if it is prohibited must have been blocked by the moderators of this forum, but the fact is not.

It is difficult to predict which is more advantageous in buying tokens in every ico as it can only be seen after appearing in the trading market, in which case I predict in advance of supply total coin and allocation for bounty and investor first.

recently, yes pretty much OP lol.
before you would get 1 pnd or maybe 2 pnd on a shit coin then it died.
at least with somewhat legit projects (again, many have way long to go re. releases)...at least MOST seem to have been going up nicely since ICO.
i don't see any reason most ppl haven't at least sold off bits to make their original investment back....then hold the rest for moon (i did that with ICN)

That is one thing you could do, if you believe a project is worth your time and effort then you could invest in the ICO of the project and then wait until the project is completed, if you do that then the coins is going to raise in price naturally and at some point investors are going to go crazy over the coin and the price will rise very high, then you sell your coins and enjoy your profits, but it is easier said than done.

I have followed ICO of creamcoin. I have not had money to buy 0.100 btc token coins so i went through the twitter campaign and earned 13 mbtc .... i was surprised, they paid me in creamcoins and i sold it for btc .... they are trying today to enter exchanges, but nova is dirty and bittrex is reluctant .... my advice is, if you have good team avoid exchanges .... make own-styled exchange or ledger or something similar .... i will do soon an IGO for our universal game join me any time: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1849667.0

Yeah man.. . It is depends on what ICO you are investing it.. . In markets,  you can buy a coin if it is at a lower price or value.  Always know first what kind of project you are going in then decide.

Investing in ico is not necessarily profitable. If you want to invest in ico, you must understand clearly the project.
Starting from idea, concept, team (track record and work experience) and all details of the project.
If you are not careful it may be you will get the wrong project or scam.

in ICO, we need to read the whole thing related with project so we know what exactly they want to do and we can decided their project is good or not for us to join. every ICO actually have a great chance to be success but its depend with the dev and the team, if they are give full support for the coin then the coin will be reach the goals and will have a good position in the list of market. but for me, i think i will choose to trading in market because there is big chance for us to make a big profit but we need to analyze to choose the coin.

You have to do research to find out if the coins worth invest in many people has lose a lot of fortune by investing in fake ICO and scamming digital currencies. You can easily profit from altcoins in an exchangers platform it is more reliable there than buying ICO as those altcoins can easily be converted to bitcoin or fiat currencies.

It is important that if you are going to invest in an ICO you do it because of the merits of the ICO, if you are speculating then you could get the coin for a lower price if it is dumped after it enter the exchanges but if the opposite happen and the coin skyrockets then you will never get the chance of getting cheap tokens, so it s better to think your strategy carefully when it comes to investing in ICOs.

True , NOt all ICO will give a good return of your Capital and Profit after listing in a exchange . Only few ICO's are having a good demand after being listed and if the team supports it in exchange. Pillar and SONM, i think they will recover and i wait it maybe we can see its good price after a week this August.

I think this can not be all true, because according to previous experience there are some unprofitable ICO even when there is an exchaner in the price drop. We must be good at choosing a good ICO to be profitable.

Not every ICO will generate profit or at least not in the short term, you might be lucky with an ICO but you can also buy existing altcoins and make similar if not more profit.

As much as possible if we think an project can really be successful we can already invest on their pre sale,there much bonus and discount in their pre sale, though some before they invest they waited the time the ico is near to reach the target for sure success.

Nope in most case, unless u buy a huge volume with bonuses and dump it early. 

It depends on the type of ICO. If there are a lot of bounties, the price has a good chance to drop below the ICO price, since bounty hunters will dump hard. The same holds true for large pre-ICO or early-investment bonuses.

There are some ICOs that are either resistant to price drops, or will stabilize extremely quickly.

One such example is AiCoin. The value of the token is proportional to the value of the company. Meaning, your tokens represent a share of the company that emits the tokens. Since some of the profits every month are reserved to buy-back tokens from those who wish to sell, it would be stupid to sell substantially below their value. If you ever find any such tokens, just buying them up will be free profit within a month at most.

One of the best undervalued ICO's that is currently running is OPUS. Check it out, they are trying to decentralize the music industry and are giving great profits to artists directly!

You always need to do your own research and find good projects. Many reviews are bought and just say good things about the project. Work out your own criteria and use them to find best undervalued projects!

i am agree with, not just luck but we need to select the right ICO so in the end, we can make success to like the ICO and the important is we can make money from the ICO. but still its only few ICO that could be success after the launching and its depend with the dev. i think if we want to invest in ICO, it is better if we are invest not too big money because the risk is always there.

Not all icos have a chance at success, there are several projects that are very obvious scams, some others are nothing but a copy of another project, and some others do not have the necessary skills to develop the project they are envisioning, so like you see selecting a coin that can actually make you money is not as easy as it seems at first glance.

What do you think about: ATB and Blocklancer?

Indeed, that's why we need to be more vigilant to this since their are projects that is lame since devs doesn't give more support to their projects and we must better seek for their buy support and try to see for ourselves if those coin project have massive support to the community. But if you are meticulous on some matter about ICO's I think you can still earn with it if you choice some coins wisely.

This is pretty impossible. You can watch the newest announcements and over 90% of them have been stupid ICO's these days. You can't really invest in every one of these coins and make money. Unfortunately, i've never done well off of ICO coins, so I tend to try to avoid them and my opinion may be biased. Either way, there's just too many ico coins these days of people making coins just to try and make some money. It's rediculous.

There is just SO much risk associated with ICOs.
- They might be scams (well some can be spotted a mile away, but some are quite well planned).
- There's no guarantee that tokens will be listed on any of the exchanges and even if they do get listed, they can get dumped.
- If you're not failiar with the field it's super hard to figure out if the idea behind the project makes any sense (especially if there's nothing there but an idea).

The last crowdsale in which I participated was EDG and I made a nice profit. Most of the time, any big ICO, or even littler ones if properly chosen, brings you profit. Where the actual search begin is to find which one will bring you the highest yield ;D !

actually no if you join in ICO there are no guarantee that you earn profit investing in them, actualy there are many ICO failed to maintain the ICO price which means there are chance that investors will also loss thier investment.

maybe, but the very best opportunities imo are the ones where they've been dumped below ico price. people are scared then and you have a window to pick up a lot at the very bottom. this is i guess even more risky tho, but there comes along an opportunity or two like these where good or at least good potential projects got dumped hard for no good reason. like in the recent altcoin dump in june/july

plus you give yourself a better chance of avoiding complete scams if you wait which may outweigh the trains you miss

This is the type of thinking that actually crashed the market, at least partially. Coins like STATUS, BAT, Bancor, etc. Prettty much screwed people over - I myself "lost" a lot of value When the coins I got went down in value a lot.
Its simply not a gaurantee

Correct many altcoins go down in price after the ICO, so for many investors it would have been better to buy after the ICO, but I think this is a consequence of the crazy bonuses ICOs are giving for early investment, someone can buy tokens for a price and receive and extra percentage then he immediately sells for the ICO price to someone else and he earns that percentage as profit.

Many ICOs also go up as soon as the ICO is over. The bonuses are a thing yes but it comes down to whether the demand was there or not as to whether the price pumps or dumps.

Big mistakes but ICOs love them because they attract big whales in the beginning:
1. Bonuses. Maybe one small early bonus is ok. 5%? 10%? But 50% is too stupid.
2. Bounties. I have seen 10% of token for bounty. What? They should set aside BTC for bounty and that's it. Don't be cheap and give tokens. You KNOW these will be dumped.

But anyway, people won't be smart. They always make the same mistake.

I agree the whole bonus scheme is to attract the whales but I think the idea of the big bonuses like the 50% should be reduced to save their projects because if this is allowed to continue, it means people will afford to dump their extra coins to claim these as a profit and this will make it more difficult for project succeeding.

ICO wont really be profitable anymore from its investors because once the coin hit exchanges the price would automatically dumps because from those people who do recieve free coins from bounty which would really cause the price to go lower and in this case we can really think that its not really profitable anymore thats why investors are already smart as of now they do only choose up on potential projects.

I think only ICOs with great ideas mean profit, not all makes money to token holders. But I really love current stage, lots of devs bring whole new ideas into crypto.

Every ICO will not give your profit because it will take some time to get profit. After completion of ICO when they listed in the exchange many people start dumping at a higher price. So we have to check whether the coin is profitable or not because many ICO is failing to make money after completion of ICO.

I think that too. But it shouldn't be a random ERC20 token, there are too much right now. It should really be something totally new!

Not necessarily, bro. Buy new altcoins in ICO stage = profit is not the thing here all the time. Although the are occasions that it will happen. You are right that investment should only come after research and news is done. If the project is really good then ICO investment=profit.

investing in any ico is just like gambling.. not every ico gives you profit you may end up getting some losses.. there are allot of scam coins be alert

I think most ICO in recently are have small profit in first time after listed to exchange, but this time very short and investor need update information this ICO everytime for sell token before it dump to lowest price, depending this ICOs good or bad, the time this token drop down will 1-2 days or 1-2 hours after listed.

Just watch the long list of ICO here https://www.coingecko.com/ico
There is now an ICO for everything anything, is it nuts that money is flowing to all these? ICO used to be special...  :(

I bought Pillar and it ended up in the top 100 list on Crypto Market Cap within a month. So it's not a scam - BUT, they have yet to release their "wallet" so who knows. You just need to be smart and choose a project that has a lot of known people behind it. The team is highly important. I also invested in Presearch because someone on CNBC mentioned it who runs a large Hedge Fund. He also said Game Credits were a good investment. So you need to read the news constantly and use your gut.

I feel like lately with these icos, the coins end up being cheaper that the ico price once they hit the market. So why bother investing in an ico when you can just wait and get a better price on the exchanges?

basically it is stupid idea and kids doing it right now, the big investor is searching a good project to put money on it, so they will put it not in hurry, but if they offered a bonus for early investing and they trust the projevt, they will invest in early phase, it will give them more profit,

what i try to say here is : dont think you can get any gain if you only do an early buying in ico, at first you need to research where you will put your money

What do you all think about this one - https://equiplatform.io/ ?
I found it by coincidence and nobody is talking about it.
But the idea seems good to me, I can see an user case here.
Seems like a steemit/quora hybrid where you can earn $ when contributing useful info to those requesting it. Not to mention the other part, the business part that looks like a dashbord/all-the-tools-you-need when starting a firm or a startup.

Your point number 1 is my biggest issue, I have seen in the last weeks more and more ICOs that are giving bonuses that are too high as an example if you buy 1 BTC worth tokens and you received a bonus of 25% then in theory you have 1.25 BTC worth in tokens if you sell at ICO price as soon as you can then you get 1.25 BTC with a 25% profit and this is why the price of those coins dumps.

It has been proven by some study that if you invest the same amount in all the big campaigns you end up with a profit. So yes, it means profit.

Buying new altcoin at ICO stage doesn't always giving profit, I've experienced a loss after buying an ICO altcoin. There are still many ways to make benefit from cryptocurrency, such as existing altcoin trading, by doing research scrupulous. We can make profit for longterm.

not all,
  I think it depends on our luck, sometimes a lot of ICO which has a low price after marketing. Do I think buy altcoin at ICO = ? .. ;D ;)

It depends on which ICO do you want to invest, in most of cases they all are scammy-projects that makeup their whitepaper and thread to make it look credible, i have not invested in any Ico yet, because it seems to riskie to me and i dont wanna take so much risk, i prefer holding coins or trading, it is a long process but you only will lose if the coin get dumped.
By the way, i recommend you to take a look at the ICO on my signature, they are working hard and i as you can see they have a signature campaing, so that means that those guys really wanna have success with this coin.

ICO are bullshit why do you even wanna buy those useless tokens ico simply raise funds for their own use and it clear that they are free from all types of taxes and free from any regulations. The ether platform simply allows them to create endless ecr20 tokens increasing more spam in the crypto community. About profit i have seen few ICO prices they sold for high prices on first few days but after a week it was all low

You can't generalize this saying all of the ICO are garbage. Some of them are very functional and that's why they raise millions of dollars in the fund raiser, besides hyped/overrated ones. Let's take a look at Civic and Storj ICO.

A majority of the time you wont profit it instantly when the ICO becomes transferable, you should be looking at the long term possibilities which can give a much more impressive rates of return. 

That's starting to become more and more true, but ICOs in 2016 were pretty much all up 3X+ immediately following.

But what i saw that some ico's now are more likely a scam after the coin is working and transferrable into exchanges they leave it and create again another coin in which easy money for them to be successful or not they will get some money.

We are in a place very similar to the dot com bubble, many ideas are being tested out and we are seeing which ones work and which ones do not, there are going to be many projects that are not worth your time, there are going to be some projects that are scams and there are a small number of projects that are worth your time and money but those are difficult to find.

The dot com bubble seems to have happened as many of the uninitiated wanted to cash in quickly on 'free money', but I feel like buying of cryptocurrency is still not that easy for the general populace. Though I agree that eventually a bubble will form when more people start purchasing cryptocurrencies (when it is easier to purchase it)

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This kind of situation isnt guaranteed now. You might able to participate on ICO unless if you did get almost 50% off then it would be a good game for you but for lesser % then it would be risky because normally when we saw that if a new coin launch on an exchange it would really tends to dump specially when bounty hunters are already securing their profit.If your not fast enough to sell then you would really get behind on negatives for sure.

I think ICOs with lending program have more success.

If all ICO's were successful everybody would be rich already. It's impossible to win all parties, somebody need to lose. ICO's were good investment projects earlier this year but it became copy-coin get-rich-quick-scheme as fast as it can. Now people can't even take their money back when they invest to ICO's. Straight dumps happen in exchanges.

Yes but it is a very risky investment. But profit can be a really serious.

A huge portion of ICOs do not become profitable to invest in and sell immediately after, often times it is necessary to wait for major milestones before the price really rises. Of course some ICOs are really hyped and oversubscribed and these are the likely candidates for immediate profit.

not always ! many ico now are trading below ico price . you should first see if this coin has potential or not

Investing usually give profit but not all can lead to gaining profit,  you need to invest in an ico with great potential .

WRONG. Most ICO´s will turn out to be scams. Beware. Moreover, even if you choose the project right it will take a good dump after ico namely because of bounty hunters dumping there gains. So choose the right project AND the right time to sell.

DISCLAIMER: Usually don´t go for ICOS because i can´t study that kind of markets.

ICO's has roadmaps in which you can study before barging on buying it. It depends on the things you should consider first. Things I consider before going in is the uniqueness of its roadmap and the business they are into, some copy cat roadmaps didn't turn out to be good at all (base on my experience). Another thing is that I waited for more news to come and base my decision on what other legit people say regarding the ICO.

If I'm lazy studying and researching, I just rely on my hunch and pray that Iuck will be on my side,  ;D

Back in the past on where reading up roadmaps and whitepaper are really worth to read but now on these recent days on where they are already the same when it comes on their projected plan this is why sometimes im too lazy or just reading up the heading and if i do found out that its is just repeating again i normally skip that one.For now i do go with the coins which do have strong community support.

See there are many lending programs not paying to the people on time because there are also investing into different for getting companies profit. Sometime company make profit with other investment and sometimes it is not. So we have to be very careful when investing into these sectors.