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Which is more risky buying a token from the ICO or in trading? And how do you determine a good ICO or project?

It completely depends. If the ICO is getting alot of attention due to it having good technology in it or maybe having a star-studded development team, then ICOs are definitely less risky and more profitable. If you're quite experienced in trading altcoins and you have proper risk:reward ratio management, then definitely trading altcoins.

It just completely depends on what ICO you're investing in and what altcoin you're trading, and how good you are at it.

In my opinion ICOs is more risky then trading at exchange because ICOs are those things which sell thier coins before the launching , so probably may be there can be chances that after the buy of the ICOs coin they launch after a long time of 3-4 month or even more time.
Here i myself bought solar coin about 3 months ago and you can see what happened wity that coin and taked much longer time to get launch .
And also here i can give you example of yes coin that get launched after a more long time , so we can guess accurately that ICOs coin how mich time needed to get launch but still if anyone want to buy and again sell then he can by selling to anyone who want buy .
So trading at exchange directly is more simple than with ICOs coin buy sell .

Either trading with altcoins or buying from ico,both are full of possiblity of loss.
If you ask for my opinion,i rely on dealing with both. If you devote time and keep attention acquiring crypto knowledge,you will better know when to bypass risk of losses.
Just you need to analyze situation of market occassionally for a confident profit return

Obviously when trading on an exchange, the coin has been launched already so you get to have more information on its progress and its reception by the market. Plenty of ICOs do turn out to be duds though -- I have been thinking about participating in ICOs and started by making a chart of all ICOs talked about on the ICO alert podcast, at the ICO price vs current price -- most are below the ICO price, even though you may hear more about the ones that do well. Bancor for example -- ICO at 0.01 ETH, now ~0.008 ETH. Honestly if a coin is good you should be able to make a good profit even buying it after the ICO.

One must be careful and do the research, although sometimes just how "hot" an ICO is may be an indication of whether the price will pop once trading begins, if you're looking for short term gains -- this is similar to the IPO dynamic in the traditional finance world where institutional investors would get in on the hot deals before retail investors have a chance if only to flip and sell it right after (coming from someone that worked at several hedge funds -- some PMs would get in on hot deals just because they can, even if they don't like the stock fundamentally) -- some ICOs are exactly the same way, like decentraland, with larger/institutional investors getting in before retail investors get a chance.

Something else to be careful of is to beware of IOUs -- these are traded on HitBTC after an ICO but before tokens are released -- you're not actually buying the tokens in that case, but an IOU of the token -- price can become very inflated there from low volume, and can drop significantly after trading actually begins.

For me i think ICO is more risky than trading because Initial Coin Offering is still not established as a coin and we still do not know how it will goes when registered in exchanges. Maybe it would depends on the supporters of that particular ICO so we must think many times before investing other wise it will be a gamble.

IMO, wait for a few days until the coin is listed in the exchanges and then buy at market price. I have noticed that many of the ICOs now are extremely over-priced. Within the first 2-3 days of listing, most of these coins lose as much as 90% or 95% of their value. If you are very confident about some ICO, then no issue in making an investment. Else, please buy the coins from the exchanges.

More risky if you buy tokens at ICO. The risk is when the ICO ends and has entered the market the value could be far from the price of ICO. It is very damaging to your money, and also one way to get a profit from buying tokens at ICO by waiting until a long time a good price when a few months after ICO is a good time to sell it.

obviously you better trading, because ico project now is very much you will profit if you are lucky to choose ICO that reach hardcap.

more risky ICO , but more earnings if you choose well or with lucky

Basically I think that the ratio between risk and profit is similar.

For ICOs the risk to loose money is higher but lastly the right ICO brings much more profit.

Therefore I would say that it is better if you evaluate thoroughly which ICO to invest in and hit it.

All the best

B.D.

Trading is risky and so is ICO tokens but there is a big difference to the two.
If I were you and I got a lot of spare money I would choose to buy coins from the ICO.
The potential are really large now considering investors are coming all over it.
The best part is they made sales and bonuses from pre-sales and that is where you will buy the coins to maximize the profit.
I do trading before but it requires great patience for waiting unlike with ICO. When the coin is out you could sell it all without regret because the profits are good.

Both are equally at risk.

If you buy tokens from ico many risks will happen.
Token price in the market is far below ico price, the old distribution, just go to small exchanger or plan to enter to exchanger for so long, especially if we choose wrong project then we will game over.

Trading today is very difficult to guess and analyze, sometimes the results of our analysis is not appropriate and miss far.

All jobs have risks, we must be smart in choosing the action. Now the decision is in your hands. Hopefully we all have good luck  :D :D

if you have no prior experience then both of them are highly risky. because you wouldn't know what to do and what to choose

if you have some experience the trading becomes the least risky of all. but ICO will remain always risky because it is always going to be unpredictable territory and the crypto-sphere is filled with scams that are trying to earn some quick money from people who try investing in them.

I think more risky is buying token from iCO. Because if you buy token you dont know what will happen to the project or to the coin you bought they have possiblity did not list to the exchanges site or you do not know what the dev purpose. Trading is less risky because you can trade your coin anytime you want because they are tradable. But invesying In ICO can earn a lot of profit than buying a ciin who are in the trading site.

If the ICO is good the profit is huge! You can make a million in no time! Alt coins are risky also, for example peercoin.. are low profit vs ICOs
My personal view, is better to study well an ICO and get token than trading an altcoins.

buying ico and trading are risk. but if you buy or invest in high quality ico and have escrow on their crowdsale may be you have a better chance go get profit. high qualitity ico give you more lowerst risk than trading.

Both have the same risk, everyone knows that. If you buying token from ICO maybe you have low price but sometimes that coin become dump, survive on real market that's another story. Trading also has risk, when you choose the wrong coin or take decisions ( buy/ sell/ hold ), you'll get loss. Before try something you must understand the risk and also how to face it. But for me, trading has more risk than buying token. You can rich in minutes but you can poor in second. Hope you have the best option to take.

I think both of those things have the same risk and do not have different places. because of the nature of the world cryptocurrency have the same thing wherever it belongs. but to the question of profit, I would be much more leaning into ICO although it could just be that doesn't match expectations. But most of the profits can be obtained via the ICO, because of the advantages that we can get much bigger than trading. It's just that it all takes time, so we also have to have patience, z     

What do you mean by more risky? Which is more risky to get scammed when we are buying from ICO or exchange sites?
Of course buying during ICO has bigger risk than on exchange site. If you aren't lucky, you will get scammed if the dev run away with your and investors money. But there is also advantage if you are buying from ICO, you can buy more with cheaper price.

ICOs are going to become a lot riskier now that SEC is coming down on it, buy crypto markets are still very illiquid. So holding Bitcoin is still the wisest thing to do.

Both since they do have the same risk on losing money too if the favor would really turns back at you.You will surely lose money.LEts start on ICO. You would be profitable if the price would really rise up specially on its ICO price but expected usually on this kind of this on which after a coin been listed on exchange expect for a sudden decrease of price because bounty hunters will surely dump their stashes once it is live on exchanges to secure profits this is the risk and possibilities of price to recover up again wont be a guarantee.On trading prices is really unpredictable which it would be hard to determine on what spots we would go in.

investing in trading or ICO all have big risks.
but I recommend you to invest in trading because the profits you can take every day, every week, every month, or every year.
while investing in your ICO must wait until ICO has been completed.

risk is always there in every king of trading and investment, either we are going to trading altcoin or to invest money in ICO. but i think that we can only make money from trading if we are investing our money and taking the risk. if we are not taking the risk then i do not think that we can make money from trading our investment.

It seems that ICOs are the most risky thing to invest at this time.
I would trade if I had the expertise. Not ICO tokens, of course, but other high liquidity cryptos.

I believe ICO is more risky than trading alt coin , the reason is because in ICO we absolutely don't know the coin, we only rely on the coin developer reputation and the sites also the white paper they give, while trading alt coin, at least we already know the coin, we got the chart and the information

Your right with that since ICO's are prone to get dump when they will be listed on its respectable exchange since there are bounty hunters will kill it, But if you bought yours whenever they offered a 50% or even larger bunos I think it is still profitable but you need to act faster so that you will be the one who early to sell yours before those hunter will came first to drop there balance off.

ICo mostly they are dumping after release in the market and turn to no value and other ICO are scam after sell no distribute..
If you really wanted to make a real profit better to go trade with altcoin that actually live long already with good movement of the price is a goo choice to trade than you are risking your money in ICO. .
I already experience a lot in ICO but i notice never experience to make a good profit in ICO except if im doing the bounties and give me some free Token sometimes if i seen large price of bit ICO and released in the market i selling it that i think only risk is sweat of doing the task and bounties. ..
Most traders are really not buying ICO instead they are choosing to trade with altcoin that already in a good price.. and high market volume..

in my opinion, more risky if invested in ICO.
because several ICO projects are suspected of illegal fund raising and fraud, however, in trading also have almost the same risk if you buy shitcoins

In my opinion buying a token from the ICO is more risky than trading. Because in ICO, we don't know what will happen with the project in future and there is no guarantee that the ICO will success as the dev and teams want.

But if we are trading then we have big chance to big profit although we can get loss too. And if we are loss, if we still holding the coin and only wait for next increasing price then the chance is always big but we don't how long wr have to wait.

Do both, those investment are have high risk. Just hope one of them will work.

Buying in ICO is more risky because there are many ICO that is scam and fake. I am always investing my money in many trading sites not in ICO. Because I know it is more safe and secure.

I think more risk to buy coin ico, because it could be fake ICO and could be ICO price after distributed down drastically not equal to the price of buying ico.

I agree with your thoughts.
that ico is now a lot of cheats. so the Chinese government now makes the rule that ICO is illegal.
it concludes that ICO is more risky than trade.
but in the advantages of ICO more profitable than trade.

I think it is more full of risk when buy token in the ico, but if the ICO is really potentials the capital of the investors could earn 200% to 1000% after the project campaign end. While in trading, the risk was very minimal compare to ICO.

If you can find a good project with a good team in their projects I think you should join their ICO to make a good profit,
I have try to make some profit by tradings way but so far I don't have a good profit yet, so I think after China ICOs banned issue I will join some ICO again

If ICOs have a lot of cheats, why you are saying that still has advantage?
Nowdays there is not much ICO which cheated their investors because most of people are smart enough to choose which good ICO and not. ICO will be only more profitable than trading when the price rising more than ICO price.

I agree with you, ICO is an attempt to make a new coin competing in Crypto World. only a lot of people who make ICO are not qualified. We just have to carefully choose a good and serious project to create a new potential coin.

Both are risky but in my own opinion ICO's are more risky than trading. Risky because it is still new and it will take time before you could profit. There's also a chance that you'll get scammed if you don't know everything about the ICO company turning your hard earned money into nothing.

IMO, ICOs are much riskier, since you have to trust developers that already have the money, and nothing to lose.

In trading, it's you and the market. You just need to learn and constantly update yourself to increase your chances.

Actually even joining a proper bounty campaign can help you to earn 600-700$ a month if ever the project succeds. Mostly 90% of the ICO projects turn out to be scam and the remaining ones really give a lot of profits for the early investors. Also trading with altcoins can be profitable if you have good knowledge about trading and the coin you are investing in. According to me, a lot of research is required for trading because buying at the dip and selling once high is not that easy work. Risk remains the same in both according to me.

I guess either of the two is okay,It's based on your personal Bias.when you do your due diligence and research well,you would have all reasons to relax your mind and take some chill expecting your investment to yield huge returns either in the long or short run. Their some Projects in their ico phase that would bring you Huge ROI so as they are some Alt coins trading with Huge Returns as well,It's all based on how much and how well you can research.

I personally prefer to make ICO investments rather than doing tradding, the reason is because ICO investment results can be profits many times over.

I think buying a token from the ICO has more risky than trading but both of them are better for the near future because once you jump in trading it have possibility to double your profit. If you want to participate in ICO you must know about it and get some research to avoid scam. You are might to join a campaign if you know if it's true by look for a good project and good team.

Well both could being profitable, and both involve some risks. Trying both of them is your best choice, but you have to read carefully about any project and check its website and team before investing in their ICO. Also you need choosing the best altcoins to trade, since there are many shitcoins.

It will be better to invest if you're already sure that coin will gain success since the trading price might be higher than it's ico amoint, but if you can't decide whether it's a sure hit better see it progress when it is lisyed soon on exchange.

It's most safe buy token from ICO (If you do the correct research to select the correct ICO). But, if you  do trading you must to dedicate a lot time to do it. But the better way to invest is buy tokens in ICO (The correct ICO) and HOLD for long time good projects.

To get the most profit, you should buy ICO, but you have to choose the most potential ICO, because most ICOs are risky.

If the ICO is good enough and worth the investment then investing in ICO is more profitable but you need to choose the ICO with the most potential out there and not just any other shitty ICO.

I think both are at risk and the level of risk varies each person. yeah i think it will depend on your skills also in doing research. if you're good at doing analysis in both, why not choose both? would not that give you a big profit ? the most important thing is you can do the proper financial manage for yourself. how to divide money between ICO, trading, save, etc.

Not even close buying in ICO is 1000% time riskier because you don't know if it will come to market or not. On the market you know the coin is there the only thing you must consider then is will this coin go up or down from now?

Where would you guys say the best place is to find out about new ICO's, both in terms of what's coming to market and some kind of peer review?

Both are risky and will be needing a great guidance to ensure that your investment goes well and you will surely earn or gain from what you invest.

although both are risky, I think my suggestion will come to trading because we can make a nice profit if we can do analyze coins before we buy and we can choose more than one coin to make a profit. although we could have lost in trading, as far as I know, our money will be recovered in the future and the price will be increased. but it is different if we cannot analyze the coins or if the coin gets delist from the exchange or the dev is run away and not continue the project, we can get a big loss because of this.

The level of risk will be depend of the analysis and risk management. Day Trading need more times than make invest in ICO, and if you dont have full time to make analysis in technical for the better focus to make investment in ICO because in ICO we can get cheap price of coin and also promising high return like 10 times profit just a few month. By just learn fundamental of the project and build risk management will promising big return from ICO.

I know all depending the person, how good they are and the quality of ico and altcoin that you like to trade, but in general i dont agree ico is less risk. I think ico is high risk and high return too so thats why choose between ico or trade altcoin is depending how much risk that you can afford.

I always think ICO is riskier, coz these tokens may not be even on any exchange, this is kinda scary.

It really depends on you,if you already got the knowledge of trading then it is better to go with altcoin trading and it will give lots of profits in short term but we need to pick the right coin to make profits.But in ICO anyone can make profits not skills needed but we need to pick the legit ICOs because most of the ICOs are scam only for money earning purposes.But ICO give more profits than altcoin trading with short time of interval.
But both investments are riskier so invest the amount which you can afford to lose.

Both trading and ICO investment are risky. Besides, great opportunity comes with great risky, I use the phrase because back in the early 2016 ICO are the gateway to earn maximum profit but as of last year the online scammer are using it to steal from people. However, you have to diverse your investment into both trading and ICO but make sure you're investing into legit/promising ICO like the GRAFT Credit Card,Universal and Crypto Payment Processing Network and here is their ICO site (https://www.graft.network/ico/).
Graft Network ANN Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2115188.0

It really depends on your own. Investing is risky Ico or even trading but one thing for sure you'll gain more not just money but idealistic mind. I suggest keep reading on their platforms and whitepaper.

It's always riskier still if don't know what ur buying. or if u dont have any basis for it. They say the least risk is the technical side (when u mean trading) against investing as u can predict what can happen tomorrow than next month or years to come when basing in ur analysis in technicals

it depends on ico and tokens that you buy example you invest in an ico it fails and you lose your money, same as you buy it from the market if the coins it will not go up of course you will also lose your money, so I think both are at risk the same one.

I think it is riskier doing trading than buying coins from an ICO, considering that you have fully researched and see that the ICO have great and promising plan for the future.

Before investing in an ICO, it is good to do your research. Some ICO's can make you madoney, others can make you get burnt.
Investment is all about risk, investing in the less risky once is the key to success.
Monaco, hextra etc made people very rich, but don't expect all to be that way.

Of course investing in ico is more risky. For some recent ico projects many give instant profit when investing in ico, such as genesis, snov, utrust and bitclave.
Investing in ico can provide a lot of profit, if you can do the right analysis before investing in the project.

Buy in ICO is better and much more easier. You only need to wait the dev taking an action then you will se the coin is pump. But there are also ICO scammers so you have to be careful.

In recent times, the ICO projects after the successful listing on the floor are very high, there are ICO after the floor has increased by 30 times. So I think you can invest at this point since the ICO launch, because you can buy the best price and you can get a lot of profit when it goes to the floor. Please carefully analyze the project you want to invest in to make the most accurate decision.

Both are different and they both possess the different amount of risk, but I will say that both have an equal amount of Risk as they both need proper Management from your side and it all depends on your own interest, and passion of holding them for a given period of time. Here both ICO and Trading needs sound knowledge and a good grasp on trading skills and without them, you cant control your risk and manage to trade, so better learn the skills first then it would be easy for you to handle the risk which is involved in trading and ICO.

They are totally different, you go for the one that pays you most, but if you can buy in a good ico it pays a lot both means are good but only if you can buy an ico which is not a scam.

Yeah, analyzing a project is the key to a profitable investment. An investor should not jump all the time to new ICO without even doing a research about the team and the project.

Token from ico is more risky because we dont know once it was launch and listed to an exchange if the initial price in exchange will match the ICO price. If you are good in analyzing a good project, ico token is way more profitable, early token holder always get the most benefit if the project is success.

ICO is higher risk but can also give you higher returns. depends on what your risk appetite is.

There are some token that gies below ther ICO price once entered in exchanges, i only buy in ico when I'm sure that the project is worth investing and hold till it's fully developed , and other alts were bought at exchanges when I got studied the flow of coins while they are in exchanges, i wait till they drop a bit and hold them.

Every action you take in crypto currency trading or investing holds a high risk factor but also can bring in high rewards. I personally do both because once I have purchased a coin or token in an ICO eventually I will trade it for bigger gains, so in the end I do both of these tasks. I also like dividend or revenue generating tokens or coins as well, that grow a passive income also for the longer term, along with actual price appreciation factors.

But ICO investing comes with more riskier than trading altcoins sometimes when the tokens are listed in exchanges the price will be less than the ICO price so we need to pick the right projrcts if we want to make money.And many ICOs are turned to be a scam project once they got their desired value of money so we may lose our investments too.But in altcoin trading we can make less profits than ICOs but we can make if we have the appropriate knowledge.So people who have the knowledge of trading is better to go with altcoin trading than investing on ICO.

i think ICO.. on trading, the risk is on ur hands.. one click, ur profitable, one click u lost.. on ico, it will be based on the devs and the people behind the coin

i think both buying from ICO or trading altcoin are risky. the price chages every minite and is affected by many things. some ICOs are so ambiguity

ICO is a bit more risky compared with altcoin trading but we can't say altcoin trading is risk free. It's also very risky. Decreasing the risk will be linked to your own decissions here.

If you want to invest long term and do not have to worry because the market fluctuate and choose to invest ICO, this time ICO investment is very good because the completion of the ICO program it is on the commercial site big and up a lot of times. If you want to invest in the short term and feel the investment up and down in the market, then you can business to receive profit immediately, but remember to study the market and analysis to get more profit.

Actually its depend on ICO or trading coin that you are going to  invest in. Before investiong any coin or ICO, must do a research including; purpose of project, project team and project road map. However there is a risk in investment both situation. So my personal thought is there is low risk in investing high potential project like daneel( https://daneel.io/  (https://daneel.io/)). It has good purpose,team and roadmap.

I'am always looking projects potensial , if projects is good I will invest in there.
but if I don't know about roadmap , I will wait until listing on exchanger and follow announcement on forum.
when dev will be update projects or have a new inovation.

Both are unique and they both have the diverse measure of hazard, however I will state that both have an equivalent measure of Risk as they both need appropriate Management from your side and everything relies upon your own advantage, and energy of holding them for a given timeframe. Here both ICO and Trading needs stable information and a decent handle on exchanging aptitudes and without them, you cannot control your hazard and figure out how to exchange, so better take in the abilities first then it would be simple for you to deal with the hazard which is engaged with exchanging and ICO.

I think the ratio between risk and profit is similar. For the ICO, the risk to loss your money is so hight but lastly the right ICO brings much more profit. For that, you shold evaluate the coin that you want to invest first before you do. If they can make you sure for star, you can star.

in my opinion both are at the same level of risk, you may end up investing in bad ico as well as losing on a trade

They are both risky and profitable, it matters the type of project you target

For me, i will just choose trading compare to buying altcoins, because as of now many icos are scam and the percentage of successful icos has been been down rapidly. I will just trading some altcoins that have a future, many of them now has it

Trading is much more profitable than buying from ico. In an ico you dont know yet if this will be successful at the end. You will know once successful in their raised money after the ico ends. Trading altcoins is good and profitable as long you know what altcoins should be trading in.

If you trade on a decentralised exchange it is safer than on an ordinary one.
if you pick a good ICO and do diligence it should be fairly safe but then there is Tezos..
Trading altcoins is relatively safe provided you can hodl if you are left bagholding

By the beginning of 2018, there are many potential ICOs, you may consider investing in some potential ICOs such as ArcBlock, Credit, Envion. These are the ICOs I am involved in the bounty campaign and see very potential. It is forecasted that the next four months the exchange rate will increase rapidly.

If you have good knowledge of cryptocurrency, I advise you to trade altcoin because the altcoin rate is rising rapidly, which is the fastest way to make the most profit in the short term.

depends how well you analyze the development of the coin in the future, buy the coin during the ICO has a price that is cheaper than if you buy it outside the ICO.

ICO is more risky but easy to x5 x10

Risk is inherent in anything you do in life, moreso in cryptocurrency. ICO expose you to greater risk compare to altcoin that is already established and can easily be withdrawn or converted! You need to weigh these risk and  consider the risk you are willing to take!

for me i think the most risky is to buy in ICO cause sometimes there are some not trustworthy ICO site pretending as a classified investments site .which is showing false testimonials and video to gain more client such ponzi sites. But also on trading there are some ,the same also of ico which is copy site or clone.  However we can prevent those ponzi just do some research to ensure that we are in safe site. Or make some questions here so that more professional investor and traders can help. Much better i think.

I think for me the trading is easy and Buying from ICO is good but at that time we have not able to predict the actual position of the ICO but when the prices comes to the market then the trading feel good because we can become satisfied with this. In the first step look at least six months history of altcoin then compare many altcoin their uses and their trading activities then make investment in one of them.

I think both buying from ico and trading altcoin has the same risk but I prefer with trading because if we cannot make any profit, we could still make that profit in the other time. I realize that buying from ico have a risk because the coin is just starting without any history at all and no one guarantee that the coin will be increasingly high, even the dev cannot guarantee too. if we still want to buy from ico, then we should know how much money that we want to spend so if the coin is not worth, we don't have too sad about this.

I didn't like ICO's until I tried and made very nice profits. Now I see it more interesting, then looking at candles.

i think investing ICOs is more risky than trading because when we trade, we can control our money to sell or buy, so we can stop whenever we want to cut losses, however, investing in ICOs is a one way ticket, we may lost all money if that ICO scam, so i will choose to trade altcoins rather than investing ICOs.

Basically both are will be at risk if we act careless on start or lack of consideration in predicting for trading that would be to do.
In essence I think we must really can be able to see clearly a basis of what we will do. Choose the right ones and you can predict it will obviously proven would be produce a definite profit.

Based on my experience, buying a token from ico project in crowdsale is more risky compare with trading altcoin or bitcoin.
We need to know this investment is high risk high return so more higher risk and higher return. Lower risk and lower return.

Can't agree more. It depends on the ICOs and altcoins.

Generally, it is difficult for most people to identify the quality of ICOs, what you can do is to get the pubic information from the ICO teams, but the information is not always reliable. In this case, most of the ICOs are risky.

if u have invesigated abit about former ICOs u know that Mamany of them never become coin and many of them vanished coz they couldent complete project to apply to some exchange , they are some of them too that has gained very good profit like QTUM , NEO , LISK ,i think ICOs are more risky but could be very profitable , if u choose the right one and it goes to some exchange ur in honeypot!
but u need to search and investigate a lot before investing in any kind of ICO!

buying token from ICO that is more risky than trading If their ICO didn't reach the cap then sorry, well lucky you if they are honest to refund and some of ICO are scam you should careful to invest an ICO.

Buying in ICO is much better, or you can get more coin from bounty dumper who sell their immediately after ICO end. You can buy that because after the dev do their job then the price will rise. This is good strategy , isn't it? It's better than buy in ICO or trading.

I think investments in ICO are more risky, as much depends not on you. Developers can simply betray investors. And in trading you set the risks yourself. And you always know exactly what you're on and what you risk.

Investing in ICO gives a large scale profit, if the ICO becomes successful and continues to get listed on large number of exchanges. Same happens with very few altcoins on trading. With trading continued active involvement is a must, without which one cannot predict the market as well can't engage into buying and selling process earning profit.

Its not about deciding ico or alts its about in what you believe more. There new icos that are better then most alts, buy there are good alts that have future. Now we have hundreds of both, choosing is most important part now, better you choose better results you will have.
Do both if you think and believe in what they are trying to do, no matter what is it, today ico is tomorrow alt, make decision based on other facts.

Yeah but, its quite difficult to choose which ICO will success in the future.

For me its both risky, it really risky. First, trading needs a lot of knowledge and you also need to have analysis every trade that you will do. Second, Investing on some ICO's out there is not that easy. You have to do your own researches about that project before you can invest on it.

Trading cryptos is more easier to earn profit than just investing ICOs, they may not much evereyday, but if we trade it regularly we may earn high profit from it, since that we can buy tokens from ICO to minimize the risk from trading and diverse our income.

Here and there the risks . You can select the project and he will be scam or buy the coin and it will go down for long and you will suffer and you will sell less . It is the market , it is necessary to study constantly monitor . And to be serious

Reliability and the project team are important for both.
If there are new altcoins or projects of which there is little news the risk of loss is high and I strongly advise against investing in them.
I personally prefer trading because I want to be in control of my actions, but it is only a personal preference.

ico more risky, sometimes ico not run smoothly or too late in the distribution also the price can be much different when it entered the market, if through the trade that has been entered the list in the market will be easier, but still trading also have risk, or can also do both

Both. ICO is a long term analitycs. And for crypto trading you need to be updated with your asset

I have never ever trusted ICO's because i always think that most of them are scams in the first place and because of that i don't buy any tokens that comes from ICO's unless i have done an extensive research on the ICO and the token that they are selling.

Buy token on exchange is safe because when you dont want hold that token then someone would buy yours tokens. But buy token from ico have lots of risk, if you want to sell those tokens, it is hard to find a good place to sell.

I don't see any point here. I mean if the ICO project is big and definitive in its goal then we can stay positive about it in the future also. The only thing that you need to make sure in the ICO stage is that you are not risking your money on potential scam sites. You must study the market in deep inside in early stages and then proceed.

Basically the risk is always there. You only get little plus point in the trading zone in it, you can be sure that whether the coin is scam or not. But now a days coins make it upto the exchange after successful ICO listing but then they disappear. Thus it really gets difficult many times to predict the actual entry point. We must learn and then invest thats the only option.

If you ask the question regarding risk then surely investing in ICO is much more risky. Trading altcoin is atleast an assurance that your money won't just vanish away all you will get is a bit less return while your holding is still tradeable. On the other hand investing in ICO is no assurance that you will get a good return over your money. However it is also factual that the type of return some ICO can provide its impossible to get such a return with altcoin trading.

In my perspective, Investing in ICO is much riskier than trading altcoins, specially today. How many ICO's did we see run off with the investors money? Heck the amount doesn't matter to them. One ICO that stuck in my mind is Confido, even for a measly $300K, then suddenly disappear at the face of the earth. LOL. So we can't reason out that because we believed in that project, we are going to invest it in. We should do careful evaluation on it, but sometimes is not enough. They are really good at hiding their intentions at the very beginning. While trading altcoins, has risk as well, as least you have total control of your funds, you can get out easily and just lose few hundreds, but you have a chance to recover it when the right time comes along. So I must say that investing in ICO is riskier.

There is no specific direct answer to this. Each one has it's benefit depending on level of knowledge dealing with each.
ICO makes sense if the project is a great one, nice team working on the project, great community following the project, high media coverage of the project. The ICO comes cheap and easily bought.
But if you have a good trading knowledge, better money management strategy, great trading skill, self discipline, then trading might be the best option for you.

In my opinion ICO is more risky to invest as it include various risk factor like:
1. Can come out to be scam or fraud.
2. Delay in listing at any major exchange.
3. Price fall after listing.
 whereas trading only involve the risk of price volatility, nothing else. It is easy to sell your top 100 crypto-coin at any point of time.

In the past, the purchase of tokens in the ICO would have been less risky, but nowadays I see that buying tokens in both places is less risky. But ICO buys have to wait until the sale token is over and start trading, so trading will be slower. Have to wait to be able to start trading

I think you should divide your money to pieces like long term coins,short term coins,ICO's and keeping some bitcoins in your pocket.With this division you can lower your risk and you can catch the oportunity where ever it is.There are tooo many ways to earn money in this cyrptoworld.Dont miss any.

Good Luck

i would agree on this.. too much scam ico hanging on the corner

Well, except for trade risk in both cases there are risks of technical or other nature, such as the hacking of exchanges, wallets, changes in legislation, etc. trading without experience and knowledge is a risk. ICO is also risky, but with the help of campaign analysis the risks can be reduced

Trading is comparatively less risky than buying ICO. ICO's, many times comes out to be a scam so your whole investment becomes zero, but it can also get you the best profits ever.
So same rule applies here also...More Risk, more profit. It is up to you how much risk you can carry and how good are you in analyzing the team and the ICO.

When you find the good ICO it is more profitable than trading altcoins. With good ICO you could easily turn your initial investment 10x in 3 months. Investing in ICO is very profitable when you know how to find the right ICO. And if we are talking about risk pertaining investment, I think ICO too is the first again because if you mistakenly invest your money in SCAM ICO you gonna lose all your investment. So, if you are a beginner you should start with altcoins first before moving to investing in ICOs.   

ICO is riskier than trading just because most ICO does not have real product yet and you are risking that the devs won't run away with your money. And as I observed, most icos are overpriced.

While in trading, you have a history of the project to check and verify before you put some money on it.

Both have risk if you ask.

For ICO is for the long term and trading is for you daily.

But careful when choosing ICO because there are many scam this day :)

Both ways are good.
But you need to be careful with join ICO, make research about project and analisys all aspects of it.

In my opinion same level risk between them, this is depend on the risk management , but in ICO promising higher profit than trading because we get cheaper price and also get bonus.

Yes your right, that's reason why investing in ICO are so risky because like you said there's so many ico that they become an scam they didn't pay all their participant. However, for me much better to buy altcoin in any exchange site and hold for a long term and sell to gain more profit.

Buying from ICO is more risky in my opinion, because if you buy from ICO it will be given a token that is more appropriate bonus and rate ICO, but we do not know if ICO is successful and the rate exceeds the rate of ICO, but if successful will give you a profits.

If we trading means buying token from trading it is less risky as with complete knowledge and research you can trust a coin and have its past growth analysis but on the other side ICO are risky as we dont know its past growth and only estimations can be made but it depends really on coin.So choose it wisely.

Yes it would be risky if you bought you coins on late phase of their ICO since you might baghold the coins you bought for the ICO stage of the token. But I'd rather choose to buy on exchanges and trade it since sometimes you can assure that their's is sudden dump will be happen if the bounty hunters receive a huge part and dump it badly and this one will be the best time for us to accumulate and buy more coins to be hold.

I would say both are very risky and hard to perform, and both have the potencial to give quite decent profits if done right. I would say that buying into an ICO will give you much more profit if done right. Just look at the profits the top ICOs gave to their investors, day trade can't compete with that. Of course that in day trade you can't really get scammed so it ends up being safer, and you only have yourself to blame at least, and that's a good thing.

For me, buying ICO is more risky than trading altcoin. If you're trading altcoin, you have a choice/chance to choose only those you think that has a good potential or only those top in the market. While if you're buying a token in ICO you can't be so sure if it's a scam or not until release.

trading altcoins might be the best option than buying from ICO because some of the altcoins have a high potential to gain higher profits than buying from ICO that might lead you to loss of bitcoins

Trading in ICO is very risky as it might turn out to be a scam or the team might abandon the project due to their investor backing and leaving. But in trading altcoins on exchanges if we research and invest in a good project or coin then it can make us good profit as the chances of the coin dying reduces a lot. Buying coins in ICOs is cheap but only invest in ICO if you are confident on its success.

ico is the best way to earn money , cause i seen before many people get millionarie after inveating in icos , but trading are risky and ico also risky if you invest wrong project and place.

Both of these methods consists of some risks. While the risk associated with ICO is dependent on your activity, the risk associated with trading depends entirely on you. We don't have any regulatory authority for the ICOs, so we are pretty much investing in something which may or may not come up with the final product or simply run away with your investment. But in trading, you are the owner of your own decisions and mistakes. This is the difference of risks between ICOs and trading. But if you ask me personally, I prefer trading, because it can fetch you much higher return than any other form of investment in crypto currency market.

It depends on the person, both ICO and trading are risky if you will just buy this token to trade without reading updates or investing in ICO without background check of the team and not reading the goals of the company

I think both are equally at risk, but it all depends on your thoroughness in choosing to invest. Both in trading and in buying ICO Token. If you want to buy ICO tokens, you should first find the background of the ICO developer. Do not get too focused with big profits.

Nothing is so bad in both icos and trading .

everything depend on project and team ,, get proper info of this with their admins and check how much time they will take to launch the project after ico ..

also compare the ico prices with their maximum supply .

Which ones are more at risk of buying tokens from ICO or in trading?
Personally and in my experience all this time. the more dangerous it is to invest or buy tokens from ico more dangerous than to do trading because the project is running it is not certain will make the price token expensive at the time in exchange. but that's not all projects will be as I say. because there are also projects that actually get unexpected success. so it's also back to you again. this is just my experience and my personal opinion.

Its depend on how you understood about coin or ICO 's future. Any coin or ICO will pass difficulty time (dump) in its life cycle. However you can mitigate the risk by doing own research. For example trading in wabi, or power ledger has good future in trading. According to my research Daneel.IO has good potential to success in nearly future.

What about those that claims to have ico claiming to have a product already eg LiveEdu.

both have different risks but if you want to buy from ICO the most important is to have the right analysis for the ICO so also if you want to trade we have to analyze the coin whether many of its enthusiasts but if there is no interest then better leave it

For me, trading altcoins because I see that I can earn more on trading altcoins. if your team is doing well you will surely earn money. Just think my that's the opinion.

in my opinion , you can both at the same time .
20% money for buying Icon and 80% money for trading

Yes because as times goes by it will become more expensive about 5 to 10 times or more because I really amaze how they will become millionaire because of that way. Buying ICO is better than trading if the ICO itself is like running for long months just like 3-6 months of waiting while trading is also better if the ICO is run for short term about 3 weeks to 1 month because it has more possibilities that the price of coins will go more deep than the ICO price, so it depends upon the campaigns.

The risk is present both there and there. With participation in ICO you can get on the scam project. But when trading, you can very easily make money and lose your money. In my opinion, it is much more difficult to trade than to participate in the ICO.

If you really want to get more profit then you can completely invest when the coin is selling ICO, when on the trading site the coin is often increased prices. But if you want to be sure to avoid scam ICO projects then you can wait for the coin to be listed on the floor before you start trading. The choice is based on how your coin is evaluated and viewed. I usually invest in ICOs because it brings more profits.

Risk is involved in all sort of investments that are made online rather in something digital. Internet is full of scam and it is not impossible to become victim of such a fraud or trick.

Therefore, I think it is best to not try out new things with huge investments and try to stick with the older ones that can be trusted blindly. I am pointing towards bitcoin and alternative coins like Ethereum, ripple, Litecoin, Monero, ETC.

Buying in an ICO and doing a trading are both risky. If the ICO is not a successful  one definitely will put you in a very crucial situation. In trading if you have no expertise and when you buy at the highest price will put you also in a very bad situation if the price goes down.

No. If you have patience and you know that the project will progress then you will be able to find time to hold, buying ico coins really have a big risk behind as we knew that the coin/project will possibly disappear unlike coins which is already in the market, but both options needs to have a long patience, waiting period is always there from the beginning when you decide to invest with this industry.

i think if you have a good ICO, you can trade altcoins ( if you are good at trading skills) and you can aslo buy from ICO, and hold until the time when you meet your profit target.

For me buying in an ICO is riskier compare to trading,but if you really want to get a high profit joining in an ico is the best.All you need is to do your own research in order for you to know what really is the project and at the same time you need to convince yourself about their project and always invest on what you can afford to lose.

There is a minimal risk investing on ico but luckily all of my coins when they hit on exchanges it's above ico price picking an ico with more hype is a good choice than tradng altcoin.

If you negate the fact that the project you are going to invest is a good one,the next thing you have to look is the amount of bonus you can get by investing ,but most of the time the price of the token goes down considerable after hitting the exchange,so most of the time it is a good option to get the coins after hitting the exchange if you have faith in the project.

I think a trading altcoin is a good option for him if he doesn't have any knowledge about the ico and he is afraid that he could not make any profit from the ico. sometimes trading altcoin is the best option that we can choose because we don't know if the ico could get increase for the price after it's release so if somehow, we need to waiting, we still don't know how long we should hold the tokens and meanwhile if we are trading altcoin, at least we can try to make profit because we can take a look at the history of the coins.

Both have it's pros and cons.
The pros of buy from ico is it can gives you bonus of altcoins so you can get cheaper price for each altcoin so you can get higher profit but the cons is you need to wait longer time until it listed on exchange and there's a possibility for dev to run away with investor's money.
If you buy in exchanger, you can trade it right away but you might lost the possibility of higher profit as altcoin's price is cheaper if you buy in ico. (except if you're a good trader)

Its good that you jot that because many of the new people here on trading wants to jump in on the ICO's or in a altcoins. I was also worrying for the people who frequently buying from an ICO and submitting in a KYC which is very harmful for your own personal identity that can be used in a fraud. This is a risk over reward ratio, take the risk to buy in ICO or wait it on exchange. Im an investor but if a KYC is needed i keep on not buying any even how legit the project is i rather risk to wait and buy after exchange listing.

ICO is much more riskier than trading altcoin, because you don't know what will happen to the token once it is listed. On the other hand, if the altcoin is already listed in some exchange, then you can have a vague idea about its user-base, volatility, trading volumes and resistance / support levels.

The real bad thing about the ICO is that they are 90% fake and scam and most of the coins from the ICO do not even make to the exchanges. So if this is the case, the second option is much better of altcoin trading. Alteast you know the coin is at the exchange and you can cash out any time by selling at profit or loss.  In ICO, if the ico turns to be a failure, no one will buy your collected cheap ICO coins and it will just be a garbage.

Both for me is the best because i usually trade altcoin and invest ICO at the same time. We all know that the ICO are one of the most trend in the cryptocurrency so it means that there is a lot of ICO in the internet so i just do some research about the good ICOs and then put some money into it and trade altcoin after that so i can generate more income and i'll use them as my capital for ICO.

the most profitable it is ico, but ico also has the greatest risk. so if you are not experienced, you should not invest in ico. and if you want to trade with altcoin also have risks, but you must be smart in assessing the price.

I mean I sometimes hesitate to trade altcoin, but I also hesitate to buy from ICO. Because they can dump on us after we buy their tokens. I prefer picking thir tokens from exchanges in post-ICO period.

I think buying from ICO more have risk than trade in exchange, if you buy from ICO you don't know when the coin will be listed in exchange and you don't know how much price when the coin listed in exchage.

I think buying a coin for ICO is a riskier option. The project may turn out to be a scum or will not stick to the road map. Accordingly, the price of the coin may fall. And on the other hand, people make X on ICO coins.

I am very skeptical when it comes to ICO's since most of them are fraudulent, So i will choose to trade in altcoins especially if i have done some research on them. When trading it depends on your skills and ability to gather information whiles with ICO the risks are just too much for me.

i guess its buying token from ico,since most ofhe ico project now created for fishy works that causes mostly to scam,and its more safer to buy altcoins as the coins has value ready,while those tokens have not.and you will have to wait until it will be accepted in exchange to have better price

depends, both can make profits, depends on the project, on the team of the project

Both of them can be very profitable as long as you choose the right ICO to invest in,  and you have a good knowledge about trading then you can earn a decent amount of money. This both works for me as well. 

ICO is the choice of secondary profit, but many people like it because it is more profitable than the number of coins with cheaper price, but I do not analyze too much ico, in a month only follow 1-3 projects, I prefer trading with existing coins and have a reputation global.

Even though they are both risky i could say that buying directly from an ICO is more riskier since you don't have guarantee if they will list the coin unlike in trading an altcoin which is already present in exchange you could easily convert it into btc or eth if you want regardless of the price, the bottom line here as a trader is that for this kind of question it is better to have a crypto which is already circulating and demand is present in the market.

Time ago it was a good business to buy at ICOs because people were able to sell at inflated prices on the markets afterwards. Now it is different. Price tends to decline when tokens hit the exchanges. But you are never sure.

Same with you. But it's dilemmatic when it comes to KYC. I personally not so fond of KYC requirement because of the reason you mentioned above. But on the other hand, it can be useful to protect the token owner so if they lost their access to their token either get hacked or another reason, it helps the project team that issued these tokens to knowing who you are, especially in the big ICO like Envion. If you had to join ICO that requires your personal identity then pay attention to the well-known third party company to complete it because ICO that raising hundreds of millions should be able to pay for it.


I agree with you. I've been in cryptocurrency for 5 months and i witnessed by myself that some of ICOs that looks promising at the begining but ended up scamming the investors.

Trading altcoin has less risk of being a spam as the reason of being in exchange.
ICO may have high profit than the traind altcoin in case your waiting time for that ICO to be in exchange is lower than one month.
It is about reliability and time.

though ico offers more profit than trading,if you can analyze the ico according to the project and team behind the ico,we'll probably i suggest he must join them and put the funds you have no obligation just to wait until its done,while in trading you can see your funds moving either ups or down,but risky when the coin just drop badly and didnt recover

 ICO and trading can bring very high profits but it is also risky. In my opinion, ICO is more risky than trading. For the ICO, if you don't find out about the project you will not be able to determine how well it is going to develop, and then you are completely passive. In business there are also some risks, if you choose the wrong time you will also lose, but if you have experience you will get more accurate decisions.

Buying icos and trading is for me somehow the same because after you buy tokens from icos i am sure that you will just sell it again if the price goes up and will result as a buy and sell process. And trading is also biying some coins in a lower price and after that you will sell it in a higher price when it pumps. So from me you can do them both if you have a much bigger capital. But i am advising you to join in a bounty campaign icos that will gave you bounty rewards after the campaign ends and then sell it. It is more profitable for me.

Firstly,  you need to understand that the crypto business is a risky business because it comes with great oppw and for very great opportunity comes with great risk. Meanwhile,  altcoin trading is more risky than buying ICO but,  only if you know the things to watchout for before investing into an ICO and it also a vice versa situation in some cases.

I think its much more riskier if you buy coins from ICO because it is still new and unsure if it will be successful or not. Although some would say they would return the amount if the project is unsuccessful but still; the coins you buy from ICO's does not have any assurance that it will be listed on the exchanges too. So for me, trading would be less riskier than buying from ICO's.

I think specific in the case of ico's there are alot of potential ico comes in 2018. There are many high potential ICOs, you may consider investing in some potential ICOs such as ArcBlock, Credit, Ankorus. These are the ICOs I am involved in the bounty campaign and see very potential. It is forecasted that the next four months the exchange rate will increase rapidly.

There will be a question there why wpuld you invest into an ICO without knowing that it will become unsuccessful. I know everyone doesn't know if an ico will become successful or not. When you invest you believe in that ICO, i invest it depends conversly i much like after it hits the exchange and buy when its dip.

It depens. On ICO/ITO you can buy Coins and Tokens very cheap, most in case at the cheapest points. If theres a good project behind this coin, the value will rise after listing on exchange. But sometimes the project need some time to run, so in this case it can happen, that the coin is cheaper on exchange then on the ICO. So sometimes buying the coins/token after the ico is cheaper than before.

both of risky, if you success in trade then you have to learn about it, also before buying ico you have to make sure how good this project, so both of are risky. you have to careful always otherwise you lose.

No one knows about the future but both are risky if someone can't keep his patience. Crypto is the place of patience so hold strongly. ICO investment is little more risky than trading. Because lot's of ICO just disappear after complete sellout. so check expert guideline & understand the concept is the technology need for real-world use.

Buying from ICO will give yo profit already when the token is listed on exchanges right after the ICO ends. 35% bonus upon buying on ICO could be a huge project depending to the amount you have investment. The risk however is if the ICO turn out to be a scam just as how the rest were and this is the advantage of just trading altcoins on exchanges, you can never be scammed after all the coins are listed,  you can dump whenever you want.

This depends on your knowledge on how the ico and altcoins market work! Many traders and investors has made serious money trading altcoins and some have also make money through ico. I think you should study your emotional habits and reactions on how the two works and stay with it. For me I have lose money investing in ico and I have never lose money in it. That do not mean altcoins are better than icos but I was not lucky in it.

Both are profitable if you choose carefully the projects, and if you have good knowledge about trading. But both of them involve some risks as well. Investing in ICO projects is more long term, while trading altcoins can give you short and long term profits. I prefer doing both but I take my time studying carefully the projects before investing.

I think the risk of buying a coin from Ico is more risk. Because when ico is over, the currency will enter the market, then price may be much lower than ico. Which is very harmful for you.In the case of trading, when the price of coin is very low, buy it, if you increase the value then sell it.Risk in trading is low, but there is more risk in case of buy coin than ico.

Are you having a joke? Risk in trading is low? What?

Warning: This person has never traded.

In your case, if you want to invest long-term trade altcoins or Bitcoin, the profit may not be substantial but in the long term will be very good. If you're going to make a profit in the short time, you should research about the ICO and buy the Token during the private sale period; there is a chance of x10 money invested as soon as the Token is indexed on the exchange floor.

I agree to this but it is very difficult to decide whether the ICO is going to flourish in the future or not. In the beginning, they all look like profit promising but they fail or turn out to be a scam. I find it easier to invest or trade some altcoins that have a good name in the world of digital currencies and can be trusted with our money. We have a good number of options. Ethereum is my top priority but bitcoin stands above it.

ICO is much risky than trading, because in ICO, you will wait for how many months before the coin will come to your hands. In trading, you are the on who managing it, after you bought the coin in the market, your coin is in your wallet instant. But if you want to get much lower price of coin, go for ICO.

If you catch a really good ICO, lets say ICON or Dragonchain, you are going to make many more times your money compared to an alt trade.

It's like asking, which is more risky, drinking water from glass or drinking water from a bottle ? If you are not smart there is no difference, you will find a way to hurt yourself.

Same with ICO and trading, your experience and decision will be the risk factor.

I think buying ICO Tokens is slightly more risky than (day-)trading. The "new" coin hasn't proved its price yet; whereas other altcoins that have been traded for a while usally have support zones; so the risk can be "calculated".

Though, the more risk, the more profits (or losses), so i think a good mix of doing both is perfect!

As in the statement it is all about the ICO in which we have made the investment. Whether this can be just buying and holding in a secured wallet or some other form of holding in exchanges. In this manner when one has the ability to find the good ico, then he can focus on ico than going towards altcoins.

Yep, I also suppose that both of them all bring us profits, it depends much on your thought and your situation. In fact, all of coins both have its own risks, your duty is learning or reading a lot to reduce or minimize its risks. However, it rely much on your thought, if you believe which is less risky, you have trend to choose that coin and especially,you try a lot to get through the risks and earn a good profits. The best way for you is reading currently and a lot, then excact which is suitable with your ability.

I prefer ICOs, but only invest in ICOs that you have made your own research.

Both are a little bit risky but if you do it with a good timing and it pumps you can earn with that.

I would  love to invest during ICO. However, due to some problems with some shitty icos, investing during crowdsales has become kinda too risky, with this solved, ICO investment suit me than the other option.

Buying a token on ICO level to me is less risky as compared to buying in trading, because on an ICO level, you have the opportunity to buy at its minimal price together with lots of bonuses that will be attached. You can always have an increase on your purchase when you buy from ICO, which is quite different as to when you buy in trading.

Trading is more better than investing in different ICO. You should know that the ICO is very risky because some of the projects are not promising and scam. You should be careful when you are investing your money.

I think buying from ICO is much better and beneficial. You have to do your research first. But even if the ICO project doesn't do well, we still earn profit because coins in ICO are pretty cheap.

Actually both are equally profitable. trading and buying ICO also requires good knowledge and analysis. if you can buy a potential ICO and that project is successful and then the ICO listed in the exchange. I'm sure you can make a huge profit. but the problem is how to look for a good and potential ICO? just like altcoin trading you also need research and analysis in advance where the right coin and when is a good time to buy and sell. if you are smart in that you will also get big profit. the point choose where you can fit according your skills and knowledge, ICO or trading ?

Now a days ICO is a great income source for most people and recently ICO is very growing and many people invest with ICO because ICO is a best for make money online or trading is a totally different type income if you want to work with crypto currency market you need some knowledge about altcoin then you can start trading with your altcoin.

In my humble opinion it's more risky if you buy coin from ICO's because not all the the ICO's will succes and reach the hardcap. Then it depends to you again choose which ICO that you confident enough will succesful and give more profit to you.

I choose buying a token in trading because there are many ICO is a scam or project without success so it is more risky. I see investing is like a gamble. ;D

Both of them are also risky but I think ICO project is much more risky than trading. When you trade you also can lose but you can cut your loss and you don't lose all your money. But if you invest in scam ICO project, you will lose it all. But if you have enough knowledge and experience, ICO project will be faster and safer way to earn than trading.

In my own opinion the more risky here is buying in ICO. Some ICO are scams and some are not but they still needs to reach its soft cap or hard cap to be successful, if they will not reach it then it is a failure and you will fail too.

Investing in ICO is more risky because it is often problematic to determine if the information about project on their site or bitcointalk thread is accurate.

True! The main problem in ICOs are legitimacy, essence of the platform and if there is a true market for the solution they are offering. It is sad to say that ICO now a days have a bad name because of scammers and sometimes they use other's identity just to scam. Another thing is that the essence of the project, does the project really helpful and feasible?. And lastly, the solution the are offering, is this solution the best option for the problem that they will solve? In conclusion, ICOs are riskier than trading altcoin because you can simply look at the graph when buying and selling altcoins while for ICOs you need the informatiom legit, should have market and useful in the future to make sure that you will earn a lot from them.

Well it really depends on the company or ICO that you will be investing.There are some alcoins that is newcomers that doesnt really have the potential to grow continualy hence it will only grow for a few weeks or months.Unlike the other official coins that is still growing.Yeah its really risky but you'll never know if you neber try.

I am beginner in terms of trading, I am confused to choose between Buying from ICO or trading altcoin. Any suggestions how good?

I think it's more risky to buy tokens at the time of ICO because many ico are dead before the coin develops. taoi if ico is successful the result can be 100x fold.

Its really both good because you can make money from it first if its a legit altcoin or an ICO. Next is it long term projects to be achieved. Its about choosing the best altcoins over other altcoins how good refers on how you visualize a prospectus.
Both same risk, you will not knew how even legit an ico is and the other after in exchange you don't know or it was hard to speculate if the price will go pump.

It is when a coin excels on an ICO level that it can be traded. So, buying a coin in trading is more risky as buying in ICO because on ICO level, you are being offered the best price on a fixed rate, along with other benefits, while in trading, you have prices fluctuating all the time.

Hi guys! What do u think about this ICO BestMeta ?   :-\

what do you mean by choosing an ICO coin or a trade, what might you mean it chooses to be an investor or a trader, if suppose yes I prefer trading, because I think being an investor by buying coin ICO is certainly very risky, maybe with us buy our ICO coin will benefit greatly if the coin will have a good price in the market, but I prefer to trade.

With bigger risks, comes bigger profit. But definitely everyone has different set of needs and wants plus everyone has different mindset and strategies. So yeah, I will go for trading as well if this question is specifically concerned. Reason is, trading is healthier source and without big problems. ICO investing can be good yielder but so much big complexities are there so stay away is better option.

I think the best year for ICO was 2017. After they got listed in exchanges, they are all blowing but all of these have change today. ICOs can't even reach their softcap because of the bans and FUDs so you'll be safe on trading altcoins.

I think too late to buy altcoin on exchange now. everything is go up too high so we should invest into ICO again.

I think it's because bitcoin price is down too deep and it forces all coin to get down too including the ICO that is getting the list in the exchanges. we can see that some of ICO still hold their tokens and not share to their participants or their investor because they don't want to see their tokens is not worth in the exchanges. I think it is better to trading altcoin because we have a chance to make a profit by trading many coins and right now, there is a correction that is happening in the exchanges. so if we can analyze each coin, I am sure that we can find one or two coins that still potential to increase in the short-term.

more risky to buy coin in ICO because the coin is not yet in the market exchange, but when you see the ICO is good, the developers are experienced and the funds in the coin ICO is high can also be profitable.

different from the existing Altcoins invention in the market, we can see the history of the coin in the market and its website. if the coin will be his usual hardfork will soar into space and can be profitable for you.

Just like what you pointed out, taking into a bigger risk can have the chance to have also a big return. So, it all depends on how you plan to earn some good amount of profits because participating in ICO can also double up your asset or even more. About trading, well, we have to also keep an eye in the market because crypto is volatile and we don't want to miss that chance. So, buying from ICO and trading altcoin were both have advantage and disadvantage and its up to us on how to make plan in order for us to minimize the amount of risk.

Trading altcoin is the very best way to make big money in the crypto industry but if you are a beginner in trading , it can cause a loss of your funds if you don't know how to trade well. Buying in an ICO is  also a good choice because the tokens/altcoins during the ICO period are much cheaper than those on exchanges.

ICO is more risky , but you can get more profit if you choose well or with lucky

I prefer to buy when the new token is listed on the exchange, because I can buy tokens at a low price from bounty hunter.
we all know bounty hunter is one of the causes of the token price drop. heheh

Buying from an ICO is no more profitable and is very risky if the project fails to materialize. The best option is to research on an ICO that is good and has a good a prospect offering bounties. Don't buy into it first, wait after bounty distributions, bounty hunters will dump the coins, and you can buy it cheap. Now if the project is promising, you can make a great money when it get enlisted on exchange.

The ICO market has changed a lot. I do not recall in the last few months some companies that would increase capital at times. I think that there will always be an opportunity to buy these tokens on the exchange cheaper than the price of placement.

ICO represents some risks but in the same time you can get some good bonuses if you make the right investment. The quality of a project i think it is a question of how good is the WhitePaper, is it clear with a soul purpose, with a lot of tech info and with a popular team? Then it is a good ICO. It's as simple as that.

Buying tokens after ICO is pretty reasonable but most remarkable projects instantly grow in price after they get listed.

Right now buying from a ico because even if you pay ethereum during ico the value of tokens is still going to be zero and you will have to wait for it to get listed on a exchange after that's done then only you will get return on investment but what if the ico runs away with your money or doesn't list on a exchange it's always better to but the coin after the ico

I think trading altcoins would be the better option here. I say that because buying or investing in ICOs are such risky business right now because of the many ICOs that go about and come around almost daily. It's just so hard to choose projects that would yield a return because it's so hard to discern which projects or concepts would catch fire and be supported by people, which is the best indicator if a project will go up or down.

This will help you: ;) https://redd.it/8exggz

Well both of these two are risky, yet the difficulty definitely depends on your capability of course. If you are good in buying from ICO then go on but if you think that you feel that there us no risk in trading then go as well.
The answer will always depend on you. Much better if you try both so you can evaluate what made it easier to you then master what you have chosen.

for me i prefer to invest ICO investments rather than altcoin  trading, because the price of invests are equal ,little risky then trading .

For me I prefer trading altcoins because buying ICO tokens is too risky at all and you dont know if the token will be successful or hit the hard cap on their ICO thats why I choose trading altcoins because trading is the best of them all Trading makes rich more richer and I think 60% of Altcoins holders do trades.

I don't know but I think the risk of those two are maybe the same. If we think about it, we could lose more on buying on ICO than trading with established coin with an active market atleast we can still recover from the loss from trading if we try to wait and have a patience.

I say, buying ICO these days has gotten more risky, due to the fact that some ICOs are not what they seem to be. Some ICOs are just plain scams that persuades people thinking that they will gain a lot of profit. So, I prefer trading because I have been doing it for quite some time and have not encountered any problems at all.

Projects that enter the market after ICO often fall in price, becouse members of the bounty of companies sell their coins. But this does not always happen, sometimes coins  are locked until a certain date.

It completely depends. If you want to invest ico's , you have to search it very well, project, vision, team, future plans,road map etc. If you find and catched good icos, you can easiliy multiply your investment very shortly, for exp. wanchain.

ICOs are giving bonus to investors for them to attract more people. You can ensure that you can earn profit by investing in profitable ICO. You should first find out if the ICO is scam or promising project.

I think you should buy the altcoin that was traded on the exchange. Because these coin will be less risky for ICO. ICOs are now scam pretty much, if we do not have the test experience will be trapped on them. That's the advice I give you.

many successful ico too, if you are good enough in seeing the project it will be a great advantage if you bought ico, for sure you will get a bonus. buy coins wherever it is nice ico or trading highly profitable, since it depends on your own, if you can see the potential it will be good.

I suggest you to buy when ico takes place because you will get a bonus there, but before that you should really check the project so as not to scam and if it is sure then do investment

I've been looking for a small investment in some ICO (dont want to promote), still losing time.. I've throughly checked the white paper, but still can't define if they can be trusted. Would have regrets if it's gonna be lit eventually. Ico's are like horseraces - it takes you to know dark horse if you want to get real extra. All 100% explored and trusted projects wont bring you that much.

Its is good question about investment, I think it is totally depend on the condition to the market if market is good then most of the ICOs are good to invest in time of good condition of the market because according to down price of bitcoin and altcoin are directly effecting the price of any token which is offered by in the stage of ICO Sale this is little thought about ICOs but some ICOs have a great plan that is not effecting the price of some cions,,
Trading is best i think,

Both are very good and effective way to increase your portfolio but before trading and investing ICO, we have to research. Otherwise, you need to face lot problems because some ICO is a scam and some coins will take a lot of time to get profit. So we have to have according to the investment we have.

i can say both investment option is risky, but if i have to choose one, i will go to trading. With trading, your money ,your own. Advantage of trading, You are managing your own money. take risk of losses but when you know how to trade,you can be profitted easily.

To determine a good ICO or project you must read its road map and whitepaper and also look for its developer. A good ICO also have its own secured website and very active on social media.

If you see a good ICO or project I think it is better to buy token directly from the developer because sometimes they give incentives to early investors or buyers.

I assume a trading altcoin its a great choice for him if he does not have any type of expertise regarding the ico as well as he hesitates that he can not make any kind of make money from the ico. in some cases trading altcoin is the most effective alternative that we could pick since we aren't sure if the ico might obtain boost for the rate after it's launch so if in some way, we have to waiting, we still do not know how much time we ought to hold the symbols and also at the same time if we are trading altcoin, a minimum of we could attempt to make earnings since we could have a look at the background of the coins.

If you have a lot of time and good analysis of ICO projects then this will bring you a lot of profit. But now I have too many fraudulent projects, so before you invest you should learn more about that project.

Buying ICO nowadays is no longer attractive to many investors as it is, today the ICO market is risky, they do not want to, not follow any trends. and fraudulent ICO, poor quality ICO carpentry in the market. So be careful when making choices.

For me i would just recommend you to trade altcoin because you can actually earn more and of course  loose if you don't become careful when you are trading.

Choosing a right ICO is risky in the sense that you may find a project that is doomed to fail in the future that you do not foresee in advance.

And when you talk about trading, there are mutiple factors that are involved where you have to analyse the coin in question in various points of view, such as change in demand, news that may affect the coin value, speculation, etc.

You talk about defining a good project sounds very simple but I believe that when we participate directly in that, we will be difficult to distinguish between good and bad because what you say, these are the things that many people know and in it, people who create bad and fake projects are people who know very well about your psychology. That means they will design more professional fake projects, to identify is more difficult and not easy, I really do not like buying tokens from ico, we can easily lose money stupidly in the market ico has too many pitfalls

Investing in a ico is a very good way to earn profit if you select a good project to invest.But recently here are lot of icos which have scamed after raising their funds.So be careful before invest on that.On the other hand trading altcoin also a good way to earn profit but you have to clear knowledge in trading.

In 2017, which you said be exactly but now it's false, 95% of ICOs was reduced after their token was listed on exchange sites even though they have a ICO very succeed and their project is very good, many potential in the future. Why is this happening? The main reason is most of token sold out in Private Sale or Pre-Sale when they were received a lot of token more. After token was listed on some exchange sites then they will sell out to earn benefit and this make the token will go down. The best now we should invest in altcoins instead of buy at ICOs.

Buying from ICO have a big risk because , if you buy from ICO, coin or token not yet list on market. So we don't know how value if token listing on market. We can loss or profit (if ICO succes and price going up, of course we got profit)

I think this will depend  in the situation of the ico project, because there are some ico that are good actually due to sometimes they get their target at once even it is on pre sales stage and gave a lot of attentions to community to buy more of their token. But there is still risk of course. while in trading you can do buy also if you are much familiar on doing this things and have contact if there is pump or dump will happen in the alts.

Both are too risky you can possibly win and loss with these two but it can be profitable also if you choose a good ICO and buy promising coins. There are ICO are not successful what makes trading advantage is you can buy coins that you are already familiar and you can search the coin before you purchase it.

For me buying in trading are safe than ico's.why it's because had more ico's not success,but I suggest if you buy in eco you will help to promote your tokens because cryptocurrency are live base on community:) that's it.

Investing in Cryptocurrency itself is risky, there is no such Buying in ICO / Trading is a risk.

You need to understand the value of the coin and purchase it in the ICO at a lower price and at a higher Bonus. If you miss to get the higher bonuses, wait for the day of listing if you like the project and Purchase when the dumpers dump their coins at a lower price.

I suggest both ways are the risk, you should have your complete research about the coin you are investing in or trading.

Any sort of investment you have to face the risk, so before investing we have to do our own research otherwise, we will face a lot of problems. So both the ICO, trading altcoin is always risky, it is good to research about the ICO because you will get a higher bonus and less risk.

Both are risky, but based on my own experience i have big failure in buying ICO, most of my income on trading bitcoin was vanished due to ICO investment.

Buying tokens before the ICO is good because you get a discount on tokens up to fifty percent, and by selling your tokens at the ICO price you will get a profit.

Select an ICO that has a potential to gain enormous profit, it is our own decision making why we choose that projects.Based on the following expertise it is better to develop more our knowledge in doing trading because we can't determine what it goes.

Honestly, I prefer to buying in ICO or buy on exchanges. Joined in ICO is possible get a lot bonus in private sale or pre-sale
Trading or join In ICO is have a risk. Use your money you can afford to lose it.

buying token from ICO that is more risky than trading If their ICO didn't reach the cap then sorry, well lucky you if they are honest to refund and some of ICO are scam you should careful to invest an ICO.

Each type has its own strengths and risks. All of them need knowledge and understanding of the components of the crypto market. To choose a good ICO follow me should find out the following requirements:
- find out their teams, their CEOs from linkedin (often have personal profiles on the project website)
- community reference and media.
- most importantly, the idea and improvement path of the product to meet user needs.

Earning an ICO course is easier than trading on the exchange, it needs experience. But you must very carefully choose the project.

The common strategy to buy ICO token is buying when that ICO token list on the exchange, depending on your target. You can wait until that coin list on the major exchange to buy for investment. But, you have to remember, everything all has a price, you spend more risk, you will receive more profit or reverse. But, I'm still like to trade altcoin instead of invest in ICO. I have more experience in trading, so, I choose to trade to make money from this field.

I prefer to buy after the price dumps. Especially when a lot of projects have huge discounts to pre-sellers.

i prefer buying ico coins by checking coins in icorating.com and picking up the right coins in the market and selling it for profit is good strategy

 For me  the more risk is to buy token in the ico because you don't know if the project will be successful when ico end and you didn't sure if the price they said is true. unlike trading they have a price of every coins.

In my opinion, altcoin trading is less risky than investing in ICOs. Now ICO is a lucrative market but not all ICOs can make a profit for you. The fraudulent ICO sprouting all over the market, if we are not careful perhaps will be a trap that makes us lose money.

well I think both have their own risks. Buying a tokens in ICO is a huge risk, well if it turns out it is a scam you will loss all of your investment on it, also if the ICO wont prosper still your investmen is a waste but if youre lucky and did invest on a successfull ICO then expect you will get a huge profit on it!
but on trading, buying coins/tokens is a risky thing, you dont even know if your tokens are going to grow, but still it minimize youre loss than investing bad ICO.

In my honest opinion and so far experience, ICOs are more risky especially the new ones. These cannot be trusted. The scamming rate over internet has increased over the last year and with the introduction of crypto world, new ways of fooling people have also come into existence. Altcoin trading is at least not a scam. A person can earn guaranteed profits if he has some good skills.

Buying from ICOs is good thing to do because there are good ICOs are in the market which having the great possibilities to earn more money and buying good Tokens,

my reason is not buying from ICO is I don't know the history from each token because they are starting to launch their tokens in the market so it will need time to get proof from the ICO. I'd rather buy altcoin which has the history than to buy ICO which I don't have any info about them and I think it's easier to analyze the altcoin than the ICO. but maybe if I am sure that there is an ICO that really good enough to give me a good project, maybe I will buy ICO but only after I read their whitepaper and know their details.

when i bought some altcoins or tokens from ICO, i just see, that all of it ( in 99%) going down after :-\

     I think both buying tokens from ICO and doing trading are risky. There are ICO projects that didn't success and if you have no enough knowledge about trading you will loss your investment too. Both this two,you need to have knowledge. If you want to buy coins or tokens from ICO's you need to learn their project very well. You should know if the project  will become successful  someday. In doing trading you should know the techniques and rules to become a successful trader.

Once, someone have got enough money for investing and he is really looking for a best source that can help him to grow his money. At this stage, best thing is to walk through every possible source of income that is parallel to your goals and objectives. So don’t just be hurry and start investing in any source, rather make a proper profile. Then it may be buying selling thing or any ICO.

I can find good ICO project, when analyze team, idea, benefits of project and country where company registered. I often buy tokens on exchanges than ICO.

I think ICO is risky than trading because many new ICO they don't come in exchange so ICO buy very risky

Buying icos and trading is for me somehow the same because after you buy tokens from icos i am sure that you will just sell it again if the price goes up and will result as a buy and sell process. And trading is also biying some coins in a lower price and after that you will sell it in a higher price when it pumps.

Yes. I agree with your personal opinion, ICO is now scam a lot. We are prone to being fooled into investing in capital. But the safest thing is to invest in Altcoin.

buying from ICO is more risky as it can have more chances to go wrong for example it can`t reach the soft cap and project may be canceled by making people lost their money.

if I myself better buy coins in altcoin because it is safer and very profitable also for me. but if you buy coins in ICO it has a big enough risk because some of the ICO would have a scam later

Why would you invest in such kind of scam ico, before investing you know and calculated the risk that you are going to invest. It is safe especially if you can buy at lowest price below ico while in some big ico you can buy at much higher rate x3 or more multiplier after it was putted in exchange. There is a higher level of risk in investing into it but the reward is more bigger if its a very high demand of Tokens or coin.

trading is always the best way to earn money quickly, but it is hard to succeed because you have to been good at trading and technical skills. Besides, you also spend much time to follow the news in the market to give the decisions immediately. So, I think we should invest in ICOs to earn money

This is very long and hard process, you need to have a tonn of experience and knowledge! My mate told me that it is 2-3 years needed.

It depends on the ico if the ico is a top ico i guess you buy from ico. But if you not so sure of the team behind the ico is best you wait and buy from exchange

Both are risky. ICO is more then risky from trading. Currently many ICO has been scamed. Even higher profit on ICO but it's too risky. No one can say that ICO will listed on exchange. But those are already listed you can trade and get profit if you have good knowledge about that.

Buying from trading alternative coins is much better to choose than to buying in ICO
Because in trading you will be one of the profitable person, it is more demand right now unlike  to others, that’s why much better to choose trading.

But because of the high risk market, it is possible to generate high profits; Many people know that the ICO is much deceptive, but if the analysis carefully chooses the right potential ICO project, we will quickly rich. That is why some people dare to take risks and enter the ICO market.

You should trade altcoin and the same time buy from ICO. ICO investment can be insanely profitable and it could also happen in very short amount of time. I will trade my altcoin and buy ICO as diversification strategy.

more risky to buy Altcoins at ICO, because it is not necessarily successful if the ICO coin.

but more fortunate if the ICO coins are successful and enter the market.

and its price could jump 2-fold from the pre-ICO coin price.

It completely depends on the Hype of the project. If the project is highly hyped and there is no chances to feel dump of the coins, it is better to invest in the ICO when there is a huge bonus and sell it at a good settled margin. If the Project Hype is normal and the vision is Good towards future, you can wait for the Free coin holders for a dump and then purchase them at a lower price than ICO price and trade them. If the Project is good and working towards their vision, you can hold those coins long.

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ICO is risky, but if you choose the right project you will succeed and become rich in a short time. But if you find the project unfeasible or fraudulent, you will lose capital. That is the pros and cons of ICO.

ICO is high risk but when the ico success it can be high return (big profit) too
depend on what condition u wanna play
safer doing trading on alt but yeah that a lot of work too like read the news and chart
big risk u can join the ico

both are quite risky. if we invest in ICO, it's not necessarily a good project because there are so many scam projects that just want to make a profit quickly. if you want to invest money in crypto I think you should be able to see a good project and also see the number of communities in it. if you want to trade, you also have to have analysis and also can see coins with good volume. different if you buy a coin that has been listed in the big market then you can hold for a long time. maybe it's less risk than trading and investing in an ICO.

I think that it is also depending on your interest, your study and your source of information, if you have good study about an ICO and you can get good knowledge about that ICO then investment in such ICO can be consider as good and profitable, I think that investment in a good altcoin is also a good decision, but it is also important that you must have good study about an altcoin where you are going to invest your money.

i think buying when ico is the best way to get more profit, ico give token bonus and trading not so ico more profitable

I think that  trading is also too much risky, specially if you do not have enough knowledge and experience about trading altcoin, to me although i have spent a lot of time in trading altcoins but still i do not think that i have enough experience in crypto trading, i still need to spend a good time in crypto trading.

You better buy in ico because of the many bonuses there but before buying you should also know about the coins and provit the coins

I think buying from ICO is more risky than trading any altcoin. Because if you trade altcoin, you have enough information regarding the volume, price n potential of the coin. You may lose money if the price fall. But in ICO, you can not understand the demand of the coin since the coin is not enlisted in any exchanger. Any coin in  ICO may be a scam too.

I suppose, that risks are equal. Altcoins can lose their cost and ICO can be a scum. And they can increase their cost to the moon and be very profitable. I think, that one of the perspective ICOs is TraceTo. It`s a decentralized KYC network, which use technologies as SmartContract and AI to verify. It can be used by companies, cause it cheaper to take existing. One of the reasons to believe in the project is good and experienced developer team, which can support and make their project better

To do this, there are many different platforms, for example, which show the rating of ICO. But even this fact does not exempt you from the risks of getting on the SCAM.

ICO investment or altcoin speculation are at their own risk. but I think the speculation is more risky than investing in ICO.
Although there are quite a few bad ICO projects, besides, there are still quite a few good ICO projects like EdenChain and Brickblock. To be sure of a good investment, you must have a team that specializes in ICO projects. They will find very good ICO projects for you to invest and risk is 5%.

I've joined in crypto for two years, learning much new knowledge. To invest in crypto, we choose both ways (buying ICO and trading). Try to upgrade your experiences to recognize good ICOs or good projects, not follow anyone but yourself.

Remember, take care your wallet by attackers is the most important skill in crypto field.

There are many incentives that you can get if you will buy in ICOs. Actually, ICOs are offering big bonuses for early investors. You can easily make money through making investment with ICOs.

Exactly, you can invest in a project that has a big potential at a cheap price, the reality that we have seen a lot of ICO which are successful
that would inspired us to be more aggressive and make an effort to study the market so we will not be wrong in choosing an ICO.