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Hi, everyone. I got about $5000 to invest in crypto. Which one is more secure and profitable: trade crypto (yes, I'm a newbie) or invest in ICO?
I've made my own research and investing in several ICO's seems more attractive for me, but want to know your opinions ;)

trading can be very profitable if you have specific knowledge and experience. My advice would be to start trading with a small amount of money as you are a newbie and other parts of your savings invest in many many different ICOs (diversification). When you will get necessary experience in trading you will increase your investments ;)

Dont invest all your money in just one way. Try diversifying your investments, it will minimize the risks, there is always a risk involved either with investing in ICOs or with trading BTC and altcoins.
Also there is so many fake ICOs and scam projects, make your careful research before investing.

If the 5000$ is all the money for your investments then you should make portfolio of coins that you are really trust. They should have strong fundamentals behind it and good expectation in their roadmap. Don't invest more than 1-5% of your money in 1 ICO it is very very risky. Also these days many good ICOs trading cheaper then ICO price. You can pick some of the good ICO that listed already and dumped the prices.

Most ICOs are just shit and scam. They don't even have a working prototype. They take your money during ICO and never comes back. So you better avoid those ICO.
You can try trading, but learn about the market first. Get to now how everything works and how the market is affected. Try trading small amounts first. Once you get enough experience, you can try investing on larger amount.

If you're a newbie, you probably not very keen on trading, so please stay away from trading, at least for only this time. You can start by reading the forum and checking bitcoin price analysis on the internet.

Never invest in altcoins these days becasue their trend is downwards.

For as of now i want to join ICO because mostly beginner like me,have  no fund to invest intrading ,so in order to gain an investment ,i must participate  in the bounty campaign ,and so that someday, i want to become a cryptocurrency trader or miner.thats my purpose  in this bitcoin world.

Both are with their risks and both require knowledge, I think in the current climate trading is better, many ICOs are struggling right now so it is really hard to pick a winner

Putting those funds on ico's is going to give you a nice surprise if that ico is succesfull and only if they dont run out with your funds, but this kind of situation is only happening on 1 of 10 cases, so dont be dumb and dont invest that money on icos, it is very risky because you dont even know if you are going to get your coins back, not even your investment back.
So use that money to do your own trading, that is the best desicion that you can make right now.

For now will advice you to study the market. Know how to analyse coins and ICO. lastly diversify your portfolio

It all depends on what coin you would trade or invest. Some ICO's fail and some become a scam, but when the ICO you pick end up successfully and the coin/token was listed on good exchanges, it's a win win. While in trading, you should know how it works first or else you'll lose as well, advantage is you could always try with a small amount to start with. Always pick more than one coin/token or ICO that you think is good and you could do both by diversifying your money. Who knows, it might turn out well :)

For now trade is better, if following ico is more profitable but for now most ico scam. So you have to choose which ico look will grow and a lot of followers if ico did not experience or failed chances ico will not pay you.

Unless the ico has discount, buy it. If not.  Its a total waste of time and money.  Some ico coins posted a year ago are still below at their ico price.  Just take a look at Chronobank time now still under 1/3 of its ico price.

That's a huge amount of money for me but my suggestion is here, diversify it into different asset. Go buy bitcoin for about $3k and then hold for good, the rest $1k trade with atlcoins and if you really want to invest on good ICO then put the last $1k. But make sure you are ready for what ever may happen.

I think trading will still the best way to earn, at least when you make mistakes your money wont totally gone, investing in ICO need a lot time to do the research and there are so many scam, so I believe trading is safer, but in trading you need  to be more active and you are going to read a lot of things before you can get the skill

Yeah diversify your asset for you to lessen the risk. This is a good idea for your asset allocation. Well if you are just new in this kind of market I suggest that you put some money on your knowledge for you to learn all the basic thing about trading and also investing so you will make good money in return. Just be more careful on joing ICO because not ICO are succeed on their project.

Diversifying is always the best way. You should split your money and make a few of both, ICOs need supporters of course otherwise they never turn into value tokens, but also you need to do your due diligence about the product they are trying to fund. Also if you want your money to short-term investment ICOs not usually the way unless they have exchanges set to be listed or sometimes they already have some tokens in the market or the Pré ICO already successful or something of the sort. For some coins, you better of buying them when the hit exchange, so diversify is the best way. I might give a few examples of what I am saying here.

Both. Half trading and half ico. In ico split again into minimum 5 project  and trading also into minimum 5 coins.

if you want to trading, you need to learn basic of trading by reading some info in many source and watching video in youtube or other sites. you need to have a skills so you can make profit in trading and you need time to know how to trade with good. but if you want to invest your money in ico, then you need to know the details for every ico and you should select only the ico that you think it will gets success for a long time but this is difficult to choose the ico. my suggestion is you can divide your money to trading and ico at the same times so you can work with both and gain a profit in future but yes you still need to learn both trading and reading the ico.

i would choose trading. trading is more related to market prices. investing on ico not a bad idea thought but we need to be extra carefull with the ico we invest in

All those who prefer joining icos instead of trading are crazy, there is no way that you can make more profit if you join an ico, because you are probably going to get scammed in there. Nowadays all the icos are being scam, there is no chance that you can recover your money if the ico fails raising the funds, or if they have some kind of issues. So it is better to avoid those kind of scenarios, and better to buy some guides and start doing your own trading in order to make your own profit, dont be lazy man, you can make much more profit than before right now.

Lots of people ask like you. Better to trade Crypto because the coins that have been on the list by Exchanger more promising than the coins are still ICO. But for the opportunity price increases more ICO coins because ICO is cheaper. However, Trading is more certain than ICO Coins. It's all up to you.

I would wait on ICO's, especially the ones that have high bounty payments.  When the coin is released in the market, those usually go below ICO price, where you can snag up a few coins before they go up in price again.  You can also trade cyrpto's in the exchange but you have to be patient.  If you purchased at a high price, don't sell low.  Wait until that price goes past your purchase price to make money.

Now a days ICO is also consider as best way to earn money. You can even start trading with ICO.
In ICO we require less money investment as compare to other crypto l.

Depends really on your experience. For instance I prefer to analyze and invest in ICOs because I know fundamentals and I think I can spot good projects. I am very selective. But I am no trader, because it is a full time job and I don't have the knowledge, discipline and time to do it. But you might.

It is better to invest money, but only if you know how and you have to invest in something trusted, otherwise it is better to keep your money in the bank.. trading.. i don't know

me, trading because some ico for me is like gambling  ;D i don't know the price in market when launch is high or low. and if trading even i don't know the price in future, at least i can manage it immediately with back up or other way to prevent big loss

Since you are new in this community, i suggest you invest in ico and while you are at it, spend some time in learning the basics of trading and hone some trading skills. Moving on, before you dive into an ico, you do some research about the ico that you are planning to invest in and know its projects and people. Knowing the project, the people, and some other information about the ico is paramount when you invest in it.

Talking on joining on ICO it would really be profitable if you did hit the right project but if not then you are doomed which causes for you to lose up money and going back in the past on where ICO investments are really worth because there are only a few who do launch into those previous years unlike as of now where the market is already saturated or flooded with ICO which would really cause to increase the risk of losing your investment.Better to go with trading and just start up on small fund rather than on going all in with that bankroll.

Yeah trading is more reliable than joining ICO, i don't want to risk my money that I don't have any control instead I will trade my money so if I loose at least I'm the one who made it. Investing is much ok than joining ICO. But some ICO are worth investing for, be more careful.

You will lose your 5K trying to trade crypto, don't bother. You are better off investing in a top 10 or 20 coin and just simply wait. ICO's are not for novices either, lol. It's even harder than trading. Maybe do 1K on a big ICO, but you will need to dig hard to uncover the next big ICO.

Investment are very sensitive, you need to be knowledgeable, you need to learn your skills in trading. I made a mistake of investing without any knowledge about and it result with a great loss.

Learn the basic of trading before you invest that is very relavant for every trader but if you want to lost your capital just invest anywhere you want.

please don't take big risk by start trading if you don't have any knowledge of enough provision to do trading. i am afraid that you will lose some part of your money (5000 USD) gratuitously in trading. you are better to join trusted and professional ICO to gain your money.

In my opinion trading is the best option compared to ICO because it is very difficult to detect a potential ICO and due to scam ICOs there are less investors for the ICO on the other hand trading is a bit risky but if you have good market research and experience then no need to invest in ICO, do trading.

First it is better to get some experience in trading if you wish to trade.
Fundamental Analysis and technical analysis will be useful.

If you want to invest find the best projects by researching.
Specially focus on projects that have a product and real world use case.
Then consider the team run a background check using LinkedIn,Twitter ETC.
There are many scams.

Invest 75% or 50%
Then earn more by trading.
Invest the profits you get in new good projects or pre researched ones.

trading for me.. but do diversify your funds.. Invest in ICOs is a good way too.. will be good to get a way of them rather than invest in just 1. pretty high risk thou. good luck.

I'm gonna lending some, buy few good coins to hold and invest some ICO also.
Lending in good platform will make your daily. monthly profit.
Hold coins and ICO is risky invest for more profit. BTW, all the invest have the risks, consider carefully before acting.

when you want to invest make sure the ICO is not a fake or a scam project, because some ICO's are fake so when you invest your money it will vanished in one word SCAM, so it's better to becareful and make it sure it's nice project and legit.

Personally I consider trading sometimes enslaving, and if you are a newbie with few information about it, it would not be the best option. As you spend more time in the forum, you can read diverse opinions on the subject that, it will be of great help as prelude to delve into it (Of course, also reading and informing you hard on your part) while, you investing in an ICO that is of great potential.

trading should require skill. considering you are still a newbie, if you still do not have enough skill, I advise you to invest in ICO.

5000$ is a big money. Trading is ok if you know the things perfectly. Market conditions and all.otherwise best and smart thing is ico investment. In back you can double your earnings.

But you have to research ico and invest. Wabi, mercuryprotocol and eventchain , ins eco.

And also invest ongoing projects a portion.

Ethererum blue, walton coin,

Best of luck

I think both have advantages and disadvantages ,,, stay depends on which, which you understand and you like ,, both equally risky and can bring the same profit

What is the best way to figure out if the ICO is scam?

For example I want to invest in Covesting but didn't find them on http://icorating.com
On the other hand, I see that they have strong team and they were reviewed by trusted websites. Could it be scam?

I also checked Indahash they have low risk score in accordance to ico rating. I like the concept and they are already doing business and have revenue.
I think that the best way is to diversify - invest into several ICOs.

With that capital you can do both, but i suggest you invest in an ICO that you believe will work for you, but also buy some Bitcoin for long term investment. Then you have something to fall back upon. When you invest in ICO, be cautious, scams are everywhere.

For, both are profitable but I rather to invest in an ICO rather than short term or long term trading

there are many examples where the coin after ICO increased more 50x, but coin have unique technology, you can buy coins which are already traded after ICO but there has not yet been sufficient growth

My advice to do both of this. Investment in ICO do not need much time as trading. You can invest in some ICO's and just wait for profit, and the same time you can learning about trading and practicing, so it's up to you.

Diversify your investments , as they say do not hold all of your eggs in one basket. If one of crypto's is going down youre not going to burn out, as you get more experienced try more risky stuff.

in last days many ICOs are giving returns and probably some coins ass well so who knows is easier make 2x on popular KYC ICO than trading in kryto environment.
But coins that will give you nice return on money is that much if you will look after them.

Your capital is quite high if its 5k. I would put some of that money Bitcoin and watch it pump slowly until you find the right time to sell and gain profit from it. Or invest in a promising ICO that you feel you can trust!

I still prefer on trading than investing on some ICOs due to some ICO that are fraudulent which is risky to get out your money and to invest, and you will not easily know that the ICO are legit, because it looks legit but after the crowdsale the developer abandon the project leaving without putting it on some decent exchanges.

define a ratio of long term and short term, it can be %50 to %50. You can enter mining, ICO or other long-term coins with that, and %50 with short-term trading, there are interesting figures on trading you can lose everything, example NAUT was 180000 and now 900, Or DGB from 80 to 2000 and now 150.

if you want to invest the money you have by determining between Trading or ICO? it is good that you learn the best option, either trading or ICO equally profitable, but you should be more observant and meticulous in determining. because every choice must have its flaws and advantages. so you need to be more careful.

What do you think about investing 2500 USD in around 30 of the most important coins (by market cap), e.g. ETH, ETC, XRP, DASH, WAVES, etc.?  

I think both require some knowledge in the field   and experience. As your are newbie I will recommend you first learn as much as you can from this forum and then try both strategy  make some trading and try pick ICO with real product or prototype. Divide your money on parts  and don't invest more then 10% in one trade or ICO.

Most of the ICO investment goes to scam project only but trading is not like that and I do not know that how you are comparing ICO with trading they are 50/50 ratio. Try to do trading with the cheap coins as a part and trade the bitcoins. I am sure that they will be able to make the 1 bitcoin or even more in 3 months. If you do changes the value in the trading account frequently then you will be able to make more money.

I think trading is better for making short term investment since you can do it at anytime when you like, and ICO is a long term investment since there should will be big profit after some useful product or service are online.

I actually prefer ICO though. Investing in good ICOs can have high returns  :D but of course bad ones can cause you to lose more than 50% of your capital.

trading is more profitable than ICOs,because most ICOs are scam.
in trade you can gain upto 1000% in a single trade depends on market behavior.

In ICOs you risk your money for a long time and you are not sure if the coin will be successful.

I would choose investments in ICO. Trading, it seems to me, is much more complicated and requires a lot of time. While selecting an object for investment is easier and the risks are still less.

There is a risk involved how ever you proceed.
The risk of losing your money is low for now if you go ahead with buying trusted and heavily exchanged crypto currencies like bitcoin, ethereum or ripple.
In the long run, you will be making some extra money.

In contrast, if you choose an ICO to invest in, the risk of losing money is higher, but if you proceed with choosing the right ICO to invest in, the profit will be much higher.
Just make sure you'll be doing your home work and that you'll be joining a successful ICO program - one that has all the qualifications to go all the way.

One such ICO right now is trade.io (https://trade.io/).

Both have high risk actually. But in trading you can control the outcome and if you really are good in trading  you can have a steady source of income. ICO comes and go. And you cannot be guaranteed that the project will be successful or the devs will be faithful and will not run with the money. Personally I'll choose trading over ICO because I am in control. But a good ICO can be very profitable if you chose the right project. It is whether you'll choose a steady income or one time big time.

I think investment in ICO is riskier, we won't know what will happen with the project. most of the ICO's is scam. they only offer a great bonus. better trading when the coins already listed on the market and it's more secure.

If you are a newbie, then neither.
I would recommend put 60% in bitcoin, 30% in good alts in the top 10 in marketcap, 10% in more speculative stuff.
Then you can learn trading by working with very small amounts only for several months until you have learned the ropes (or decided that you don't like it).
One thing I would say is be wary of ICOs as you'll need to do a lot of research to determine if a project is good or not, and also there is often a huge dump as soon as they hit the exchanges.
Another thing you can do is participate in bounty campaigns and airdrops.

Diversifying your investment is a really good decision. You can earn a lot of profit by doing it. Trading can be more profitable if you have the right knowledge and skills. ICOs is also a good investment. Like what he said, you should be very careful when choosing an ICO to invest on. Because nowadays, lots and lots of ICOs have been appearing and it is quite hard to determine which one is a scam and which one is good project to invest on.

The number of Ico launching everday were totally increasing too fast, reading their whitepapers sometimes weren't enough we need to do more research and analysis before we invest as well when we do trading since we might earn more if we hold it a little longer.

I will choose trading for the long terms purpose or what we can say more or less passive source of earning money.

For ICO it is important to note that, not all of them are profitable or it may not be the case that they all will generate you handsome amount of profit all the time. Only few of them will come into market which can give you tremendous amount of money and you can benefit from he initial investment. Sometimes people get sucked into ICO because they never read the ROI value sometimes and it gets harder to carry the load of that investment until the right opportunity has arrived. So better think about the ICO is rare option of earning. Trading works best if you learn it step by step and acquire some analysis skills.

spreading your money into some investments is good it is better to that because in that way you can earn more profit than doing trading or ICOs alone and also, beware on the scam ICOs that just lurking around just to make sure that your ICO is very legit, then check if  there is a whitepaper and also, ask some members here if the ICO is legit.In trading the In trading the very important trait to have a good decision making skills ans also the knowledge in trading if you ave these 1 traits you will have profit.

I think ICO is a good way to make you to be a good investor since you can learn to check whether some projects are promising or not, reading the whitepapers, learning the markets and so on.

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

ICOs are good source of income but beware of scam ico. Their is a lot of risk involved in investing in ICO. Trading on the other hand is also risky and if you have done market research then you can be successful in trading.

With newbie you need divide the capital into several parts. trade and invest ICO with a small fund. When you have experience you will have more percent wins

For everyone, not newbie. 50% of all is longterm investment to BTC 20% to alts of your choice. 15% to try traiding on exchanges. And rest to invest in 5-10 ICO.
But the main not try to go 50% in one coin or one project except BTC

If you will join the ICO then best to know about trading too. Just spare some money there and try it.
Why?
I saw in telegram that a bunch of first time investors are having a hard time on what to do with their coins or they dont even know where their coins at or how to receive it.
If you already have the knowledge in the trading industry then you wont have much of that question. Right?
Just so to minimize that questioning in the ICO's developers end.
Out of 500 questions there maybe 400 are the same asking how to receive their coins.

You can do both at the same time but be careful and don't trust anyone where to put your money. If you are just starting and you want to go on cryptocurrency trading you need to understand first everything about the coins you want to buy and do your own research. But since you still don't have knowledge about trading start buying small amount of two different coins with small value don't go all in. Investing in ICO is more risky than trading for me because most of them suddenly disappear having your money in their pockets, There are some legit ICOs but we can't tell if the project will be successful. I also do both but I don't just put my money without researching and understanding because that's the key.

icos are taking so much time bu if you find the right one its make your money doubled or tripled .however trading is not like that it depends on your skills

both risky, both with opportunities,

problem is the total market is impossible to fully understand.

regards

I think that in this situation, you can try investing in a suitable tested ICO, only you need to invest a small amount. It is necessary to feel how it works. before investing significant amounts. For trading on the exchange, certain knowledge and experience are necessary. Here you also need to be careful and start trading better with small amounts and with well-known coins. The main thing is not to take chances before getting the necessary experience.

If I were you I will pick investing in ICO, trading can lead to overtrading and when this go against you, you are likely to want to chase your money and then resulted into more loss. All you need with ICO is a good and trusted team, with time the reward will come, just don't invest all money you need for your upkeep into it.

Investing to the right ICO is the higher chance to multiply easily your budget. Trade.io is a good ICO, I suggest you to invest to it's pre ICO

I suggest investing in an ICO to multiply profit but trading is also a good idea because of the normal pump and dump.

If you don't have experiences and good trading skills, I advise you choosing invest in ICOs. If you have analyst skills, you can do research ICO projects carefully via whitepaper, website, google,...I think you will succeed in investment. And one promised project I wanna introduce you is Wepower.

Both are risky but ico have more risk than trading in a situation where someone invest in a scam ico.

I think you should spend your 5k$ to start trading first cause in my opinion it's much easier than invest in ICO projects cause there are so many ICO projects so it's not easy to find out the good ICO projects to invest in moreover there are some scam projects so it's really risky if you don't have any experience about this kind of investing but with trading it's much easier cause there are a lot of trading signal group and you can join these group to receive the signal to trade. Beside trading is not too risky, you can't lose all your money in few minutes.

if my menururyt is indeed the best thing in this bitcointalk forum is ico.
and my suggestion to you who want to invest try this project.
https://ico.crowdholding.com/#home

as entering within the field of the works with trading scenes, trader might gains also extent with the offers as attaining as the parts of becoming investors for the ico schemes of offers,
as further to turns with the finest as involving chance on occupation as displacing unit with the new coins on possession to work as the parts with the balance on exchange with the trading tasks of the arbitration.

Trading for me because I still did not try ICO invesment. In real trading You will spend money right? well its the time you need to sacrifice money because you will lost sometimes and not never got to try this but thanks to the internet I learned a little.

Onother trading which you trade money to token in a exchange wallet. Yiu need to wait for you token rated and prices will rise go sell it

Neither! Especially if you are just new to the space. You should just spend your time learning how to buy and hold Bitcoin and this will do you well in the short term and the long term. If you have a family or are thinking of starting one you should definitely just get into BTC as that is what has the real long term value all these other altcoins and forkcoins are garbage.

In trading you invest. The greater the chance you earn here. Unlike the ICOs that if not successful they will steal our money. Better trading than it can give 50% to 100% daily. Of course you have to know something new to get into this trend because your investment can beat you here.

In trading you need to learn the basics first and you have to know the risk of trade. Have some experienced by trading up by starting with a small amount. Investing in an ICO is being risky nowadays that so many ICO are being created suddenly. Well if you find a good ICO which is very rare today, still you can have some good profit if it become success

Investing is risky for you there is so much ICO scam going around now, yet, you are a beginner so it is not recommended but if you have a friend and have that experience and knowledge in investing go with it but if you don't, go and try trading it's in major exchanges start in small amount of money

Since you are a newbie in trading then it is not advisable to put all your money there.You can choose to put an amount  that you are comfortable with and if you feel that you are already familiar with the market then you can choose to put a higher amount. You can also invest in several ICOs but do a due diligence first like knowing the people behind the projects and know the public sentiment of the project because you might get a hint of the project has many supporters or not. Many ICOs are scam so better be careful where you put your money and if there is a possibility you can communicate with the developers personally then meet them especially if you are putting a significant amount to the project.

In my opinion do both trading and invest in ICO so we will become expert in crypto market. But I think you should be use that money first to buy Bitcoin and Ethereum by porfolio 60% and other 20% for trading then other 20% again for make investment in ICO. Make investment in crypto market by this portfolio I think will be less risk than use all money for trading or invest in ICO.

Trading and ICO are very risky but if you don't have knowledge about trading better don't invest there because you will end up in loss. So it is always to research before investing in ICO also because you will make good income with the ICO investment.

I think you should devide that money in to both, because when you invest in ICO you should be have knowledge about trading when selling the token that bought during ICO. Divide by 50% for trading and 50% more use for  make invest in ICO is good decisison to get profit from crypto market and to learn about technical and fundamental analysis in crypto market so later we will be a person who expert in crypto world.

First, what is trading and what is ICO. Trading is a proccess which you buy and sell for a short time, for example is you bought a Altcoin and then when the price is up or on your target value you exchange it immidiately. Buying an ICO is different, since you stayed on it until its price or your target date has been reached and then exchanging it.

There's no almost difference on it, when you trade you are buying an alt coin and trade it for bitcoin to get profit. And when you are investing into an ICO you will get their tokens soon that you are about to trade and exchange it for bitcoin. You made your own research but you didn't made a research for comparing what's the difference of these two. Go for alt coins that are popular and avoid those scam ICOs that are only going to take your money.

I think trading would be a better choice. Investing in ICO can be very risky to the point that you will be blindly invest based on what they just wrote on their white paper and have only plans and ideas. I am not saying that all ICO are scam but most of them are. It can be very deceiving to just look and research at what is their product and what can it do. There is no such thing as it will go to the moon after it hits the exchanges. Trading can be rewarding if you do it right. Why not invest in knowledge first. Study well and then  start with just a small money. In this way, you can just get your feet wet first before diving into it. At least you can experience it first hand and if it doesnt go as planned at least you will not burn your portfolio.

Both high risk hahaha

If you want short term choose tradin but if you want long term choose ico. Trading is good right now because the segwit2x is suspended, some altcoin price start increase today. Both are good actually, so just make it 50% for trading and 50% for ico.

Trading and ICO both are good points for investing but I think in trading you may disterb from unstable bitcoin price and from ICOs you have less problem of this kind because in ICO you have to invest in brand new coin that is nearly listed in exchanges but one fear is attact with ICO some ICOs scam, So be aware from scam peoples.

Both can be profitable. Ico has the opportunity for larger gains usually. But it's also more risky

You should split your money and invest in the two. Either way you have to do your due diligence. Before you venture into any investment you should do your bit by investigating and research. For ICO there are a lot of scams so I will encourage crowdsale ICO and for trading learn the nitty gritty before you start.

Why not do it at the same time? you can put 50% of your money in trading and the other percentage is on ICO but since your a newbie don't invest all of the 50% in ICO's or trading.  Just start with a small amout, do some search about trading and ICO's and when your already know how it works then you can invest all your money. You'll get rich in no time, specially when you are a fast learner.

I agree with you that trading is good choice because trading is more risky than ico.
whereas if ico we do not know about the projection of the project especially nowadays a lot of scam ico.
so better trading than on ico to avoid the scam ico

Both are risky if you do not have the necessary knowledge. Investing in ICO is good because there are huge bonuses given but the risk is much higher. There are so many ICOs that failed. Aside from that there are other ICOs that are outright scams. And several others are nothing but projects founded upon the whims of the team. It is a good investment provided you will not fall among these categories. In trading, you need to learn the skills before you will also become successful. Study both very well before you decide.

Investing in ICO's can be more difficult than trading in my opinion. If you want you can open demo account and try trade crypto on dummy account but it's not the same - there is no emotions involved and believe me your decision can be influenced by emotions when price drops. Because you are newbie I will not recommend day trading for you, and I will not recommend buy Initial Coin Offering - it requires skills and knowledge, experience and patience.
ICO is basically investing in StartUp, things can gowrong at any stage from the beginning.

If you really must decide, try research about ICO's from first top 25 from coinmarketcap.com Make sure read their ANN thread, visit website, watch reviews on YouTube, Search videos witch Ian Balina on YT and watch them all. Make sure to read a road map, white paper, check Reddit what other users say, join Telegram. Some ICO's can take 2-3 years from day one before Tokens are highly profitable. If you don't know which one project to start?
research: Golem and SONM. Both are direct competitors but SONM is younger Project and price is still very attractive - around ICO offer.

If I was you I wi buy Bitcoin 90% and 10% in ICO
max and start learn from there.

Why debating this? while we can do both and ICO aswell with tradings is not far different since after the ICO we will go trade our coins we bought, But I will maximize the tradings since from here I can able to earn huge profits rather on ICO's where we can earn with this on monthly basis but sometimes it takes more months since we cannot make sure if the ICO price will come on the coins since sometimes the dump from the bounty hunters will surely came.

For now I am joining ICO because most beginners do not have enough funds to invest in intrading because they have big enough capital, so to get investment, I have to participate in gift campaign, and someday, I want to become a trader kriptocurrency kalao already have enough capital.

That's a good point. I noticed that on the first day of listing all investors sell their tokens which pulls the token price down.

Dealing with new ICO is always risky. Investing into the project and being among those guys who were first to do it you can lose everything or get a really Big Prize. To my mind, trading gives more chances to earn here.

It is not so difficult to choose an ICO for an investment that will not turn out to be a SCAM as a result. Perhaps you will not increase your money, but if you choose the right ICO, you will definitely return it. But the trading on the exchanges for a newbie carries the high risk of losing money. It's only easy to say "buy low, sell high". And one more thing - to buy and hold BTC/ETH it's not a trading, it's just an investment.
Read this post on Reddit, it's just about the wrong investments - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6tfxq4/how_i_fucked_up_and_turned_600_btc_into_200_btc/?sort=old

ico for me. why cause its profitable if you buy it in the pre-sale. hold it and you gonna rich
. what you need to do is choose the right ico

Forgot this fairy tale that bounty hunters can dump the token price, mate. What can they do with their volume 1-2% of total supply maximum? Nothing.
I'll tell you how most of ICOs arranged. On early stage some big whales invest in project and get a huge bonus (private sale). Then there is a pre-sale, where small whales and groups of small investors get smaller bonus. And at the end of campaign ICO is carried out, where everyone can buy tokens at the highest price. After listing on exchanges big and small whales start to sell the tokens even lower than ICO price (if there is no explosive price growth right after listing) because their prices fm private pre-sale and pre-sale allow them to do so. And at this time all the ICO participants are indignant why bounty hunters sell their treasure at such a low price. ;D

I think investing in ICO is more promising and brings more luck.

I participated in three ICOs last summer, all of them were successful, only with the current ICOs I don't really have faith in them. So now i'm trying to trade when I see opportunities. So far It is going well. But I advise people who just start with crypto to just buy and hold for 6 months and take that time to educate themselves about the crypto market.

Different strokes for different folks, it depends on what you want, at the end of the day you trade your ICO tokens, especially when you are in good profit.

I think it is all up to personal preference but really ICO carries more risk and more reward. It carries more risk because you dont know if it will get picked up or will be developed properly but there lies a bigger reward for

taking such a risk. Trading however the coin is already in circulation and you can see what it is how the community is and everything else. This leads to less reward but less upfront risk as you know everything you are

getting into. Again I say it boils down to personal preference, perhaps try both with a nominal amount like $100 and see which you prefer more. That can help you decide better which is better for your style of trading.

I believe now it's a perfect time to invest in good ICOs.. what does it mean? A competent development team is the most important point. You should know very good who is behind the project, their past projects... people are the key point of successful ICO.

You are a newbie. Therefore, you should spend a bit of money to trade. You have to learn many things. With the rest of money, you can find a good ICO to invest. Livestars an example.

Recently there are very few ICO that give + at the outlet for investors (only if you wait long). This is somehow profitable for those who buy tokens on pre-sale with high persents. I'm more inclined to trading. About the word "safely" you can forget))) But if you find a really good ICO, then it will certainly bring you profit.

the investment you made in ICO is right to collect altcoin and expect good prices and get better results

Better to invest in to ICO's but with good technology which have a potential, i would recommend to invest in to platforms which can implement new tokens,  long term investments having a bit potential

I suggest, to try both because trading and Ico are both profitable if you do it right. Both have risks and advantages. For prevention of bad risks such as ico that you follow is a scam then from that try both is the correct choice and minimize you from losing money overall.

If you have 5000$, I recommend you to invest 1000$ each for each ICO projects, and one of those ICO project that is very potentials and has volume market are Earth token, Caviar, Utrust, Mavin, and Fidentiax those are good to invest in I can assure you with that.

Personally i prefer trading altcoins after ico when they have a product to sell. It's hard now to find a trusty ico to invest in.

Go ahead and learn some crypto trading skills. Investing in ICO is not only risky but also the returns will be coming a bit late. I am not saying it is not a good way to invest but for a beginner like you I think the much better option would be trading. Here is what you should do: buy some good coins and then try to take a little amount from it to trade for yourself. This will be your learning experience. Take note of your entry and exit prices.

I think both of them have the same risk, either investment in trade or ICO.
it is probably the safest to buy bitcoin and keep it in the long run, because we know bitcoin prices continue to rise from year to year

Dear, I think trading would be a better choice. Investing in ICO can be very long time process.
But if you don't have enough knowledge in trading, you can loser anytime. so when you are a professional trader then trading is better. otherwise ICO is the best option to invest.

well, I won't invest much more into ICO since it seems got high risk to take and your ROI may be even minus.
cause it could be scam or develop the coin ain't properly and stopped like nothing and u lose everything u invested into.
so, I used to trade, but you need to learn about it, like doing good tech analysis.
even though, it still can mislead, but u can minimize it

agree today there was a lot of ICO's popping out without even knowing who are the people behind those project's and the sad part is they are taking millions of people money and run away in the end , It's is very risky now to invest on ICO's much better if your just gonna use it on trading at least if it lost it's is all on you not on random people pretending to have good projects

I started off by buying a well known crypto and then trading a very small amount, about $10 worth, trying to buy the lows and sell the highs. I had lots of successes and lots of mistakes, the successes helped to absorb the cost of mistakes. Then I got in to 2 ICOs again with small amounts, couple of hundred dollars. Again I learnt the ropes with these.

Now I do a bit of both, trade and ico's. Hope that helps.

To be honest with you, it’s never 100% secure to invest in cryptos. However If you’re willing to take the risk, you could as well invest in ico’s, which have the highest potential to rise a lot in price. Metta looks good to me, however that’s a personal pick and in no way investment advice. You should do your own research and then perhaps pick a project you really believe in yourself.

there are many scam ICOs, who have no job prospects and just take your money and take it away
my advice try trading, but for beginners should be in small quantities first, if it is felt to have experienced try to invest a larger.

If you have knowledge and experience in trading go for it but it has always a risk

You can choose both if you are now have full knowledge of both. As what you said, you are still newbie. Be careful on investing in trading since you might lost all you investment if you are not keen about it same as ICO make further research on the project and everything about it before you make any decision.

With that money you can do both, 60% trading for larger profit and disseminate your money to different coins or focus on 1 coin. 40% will be on ICO but make sure you did an extensive research before investing into one. Some ICO are shady and Scam , but some are promising. You just have to extend your patience in ICO but returns are great as well if you hodl for awhile. goodluck with your decision though it's your choice 

I recomended , to try both because trading and Ico are both profitable if you do it right. Both have risks and advantages .

you have to speculate, both potentially making you fortune even rich. so I guess you should take the time and learn about ico and trade.

i prefer to trade than joining ICO because in trading you actually hold everything you invested in and you are incharge if its going to give you gain or loss.

I am glad you have made research about the ICOs projects before invest into them, it is very good to anticipating something bad happen to your investment, don't forget you must make calculating about the losing money in the ICOs projects too. In my personal opinions i made investment in trading alternative coins for short term investment ( it is main source of the bitcoin) and for middle term of investment i made investment in the ICOs projects usually getting profit couples months later.

I think there is a higher risk in investing in ICO, but a greater profit if it would succeed. In short, you have to learn and study the project so that you would know if it would work or not. As per trading, you have a n assurance because the coin youll be investing is already in the market, so you would know which of the coins have the possibilty to increase the value. So if i were, try both, that way, you would know which strategy you are good at

I think i would go for trading, although ico can give a big profitprofit once the project is successful. But it has higher risk. Trading is good and if you know how to play with it,  you will gain more.

Soon there will be changes and invest in ICO will have to be wisely as before. Yes, that soon, not all investments in new projects right now justify themselves. New ICO reduce the hardcap. For example, Oracles (POA) updated the target to 12.5 million instead of the previously announced 25 million.

yep study the market and prediction from expert, There is always article in cointelegraph about pricing prediction. Better to read often so that when trading will be confident to make profit. ICO is another way to grow your money, be careful to dump and pump coin or token.

Trading can also give you rich if you are good trader and know how to read graph and analyst it. In ICO patient and hardworking applied it can bring also rich to you if your are enchance it focus it.

yes, sure ICO so interesting to investing your amount, but u must analysis threat at there so many phising and scam, but if yout project succes u will get bigger profit from trading. if u doing trading to invest your are money i think will safety, but how much profit will u get thats all depend from your market analysis and how much your investing

if I choose trading or ICO I prefer trading than ICO
because there have been many bad ICO cases, it also ends back to trading as well

you can invest in bitcoin and altcoin. I think you can invest on ico and certainly for bitcoin. so I think now all you have to do is, spend some time and research on what you will invest.

yes of course trading, because trading earnings bigger and bigger. if ICO is not too big. but, if asked better choose both to be fortunately also double. If you think how guys? Trading or ICO.

Both

If you are looking to invest in an ICO I would say check out Propthereum.io. They are an upcoming asset backed ICo on the blockchain and are expecting a 1566% coin appreciation in a short period of time. Proceeds raised from their ICO will be used to purchase A-grade property worldwide generating a rental income and underlying value for the PTC token holder. This means that the coin will always increase in value!

If you have that amount to invest, try to have 75% of that will go to ico, because as you said, you have some research about those ico. And the remaining 25% is try to participate in trading because as what you said, you are newbie in trading that is why have some small amount in it to try master the trading or gaining profit in trading while learning

I think you can choose both, my opinion is to invest in many places but it should have certain safety and less risk. $5000 is a big money and you qualify to try both trading and investing in ICO. However, before investing you also need a bit of knowledge. ICO projects are becoming more and more, so you need to learn thoroughly to make the right decision. As for trade, you are a newbie. I recommend learning more knowledge and techniques to gain experience, do not spend too much money on the initial steps because you can lose more. This is just my advice, wish you success :D

for now maybe ICO is trend, and good for investment. but trading is also very good. whichever you choose which one. all in your hands;)

Trading is profitable if you know the game! Investing everything in one thing is wrong imo. If you do so, then the risk is greater, so having said this, it would be wiser if you share your investments and minimise the risk effect.
The risk is everywhere though, whether your investing in an ICO or if your trading Bitcoin and Altcoins.

I would recommend doing both, trading is good now, especially with segwit out of the way. Investing in ICO's is also profitable, start with joining a bounty program and collect Airdrops from these programs to start you off.
How about checking trade.io here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2370663.0

Your main goal should be to study whatever it is your getting yourself into, and be cautious of the scams that exist in the cryptoworld, because everyone is out there to make money.

Trading is best for now because ICO takes a long term investment and ICO also is 90% scam based in the news that I read. The only hard for trading is that you need to be updated from time to time.Be sure also to ask your friends advice if your knew to trading just to be sure. Trading is good and can give you a big profit if you master it. And lastly, just trade what you can afford to loose.

Why not both? I've seen there started to pop up refundable ICO's. If you invest and they don't perform as you'd like, can ask for a refund and do go trading. I'm looking into something like that with Angel Token.

That is the million dollar question (or $5,000).  I think it is a combination of both.

There is a great PreSale open, Pareto Network.  They aim at giving Crypto investors real actionable trading news to help you grow your crypto profits.

Check out their thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2367454.0

For the love of God try not to trade if you can. It's very dangerous and you are likely to lose a lot of money. What you can do is invest in ICO's as you have already suggested, which will definitely increase your chances of making a profit (if you are good at picking the right project), but that really depends on you. Trading involved a lot of stress and there are days were you can experience restless nights, unable to think, eat or sleep, if your money depends on it. ICO's from the other hand are offering some long-term investment, which you don't have to monitor all the time, you can simply invest in what you believe in and wait until that thing either materializes or not. Stick with ICO's is my opinion, trading is very tricky and can get you destroyed in no time.

Have you ask people what the recent dip in ALtcoin prices have done to their portfolio, alot of traders are in red, what happen in this space is that you see people talk more about the profit the are making in trading than the loss they have incurred

I think you should invest in trading. New ICO in these day have high risk, but it will bring you good profit if that ICO success with their project. If you new to this crypto market, you should just trading. Dont invest in ICO if you dont know anything.

ICO investment is too risky because some of them are scam. If you will trade in, you must to expand your knowledge on how to trade in.

I think if you want big and safe profit without much risk invest in ico only but see ico its scam or not and if you want to trading you can try it but my advice use small capital aja first

Trading is best option rather then ICO as new ICO will take time to implement their project and no one knows that project will survive or not. In trading, all listed coins have some background behind them and acceptable by investors and with your proper study, you can find a gem.

Trading is always batter than ICO. But trading needs  experience. Some ICO are good enough. So invest in both way.

Trading is more profitable than ICO and if I were to choose between both I'd rather trade with a much well researched coin than an ICO that is unsure yet if it will make it in the future.

Just as you mentioned, trading needs experience, I think ico needs more experience since you do not have much former information about this project, while in trading ,you can see some information about the market performance.

Considering the market environment, i think ico is not the best choice now, you can buy new tokens when they hit an exchange with lower price. But, of course, there are some very hot projects like RDN, ico is a better choice.

Why don't you divide it into two? The first half is for trading and the other half is for ICO. Just to be safe. But if you studied the ICOs you are going to invest in and you found out that those are good ICOs and not a scam, then go invest all of your money. It's all your decision, after all.

Most of the ICO nowadays are scam and only some of the ICO is porfitable and trusted. I think it is better if you will do trading. But you are still newbie so it is good for you if you will study first the information about trading.

if you has knowledge about trading I think trading is profitable but still has risk you can secure that about risk
but if you not has knowledge ICO can be some way to make profit but you must get information accurate about that ICO
ICO can scam or loss value of coin/tokens
trade can make you loss

It takes a lot of effort to learn trading and become profitable. Even experienced traders lost money a lot of time, especially in this market. For ICO, it's more in your control as you can research about the team and the project before making a decision.

Just focus on trading because ICOs are all just about presentations to lure you and they already making that it's price is like this or like that but then it will just going to be tanked down terribly when it hit exchanges.

I think you should invest $500 to practice first, When you learn how to get profit from this money, then invest more

I personally do both, trading is one to get short-term profits. and investment for the long term, so I think this is about the problem of knowledge. if you have more knowledge about trading and crypto you will do the same.

both can be done, and both can produce a decent profit, but both require knowledge and experience, as others have said. but if I am, I will try to trade first in small quantities, if you want to invest in an ico you have to really analyze the project, whether the project can be profitable in the future

If you are newbie I prefer you to don't try that both.
because your too early to do that risky thing.
but if I can choose , I suggest you to learn trading , so you can make a profit with your own without depend to the others.
so first thing you must do is learn this article https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/04/30/tutorial-altcoin-flipping-cryptocurrency-trading-strategies-always-win/. if your mind already opened. Don't be doubt to begin.

I think the best strategy is to go 50/50 ,try and get some established coins to invest in while at the same time keeping an eye on unique upcoming ico's. Market research is a must in this crypto game, and as always feasible tech, real world use then your on to a winner.

To get huge profit, Let's invest to lending coin. And remember don't put all eggs to a bag...

Studying the market does help some but it would all be worthless if there isn't any action done after that.

The safer course is trading, you can not fall right away, but there are fewer opportunities to earn

That is something what you need to decide yourself.
Do a lots of reading first, hold that 5000$ until you are sure that you know what is ICO and what are risks of investing in it and what is trading and what are risks of trading.
You can go with both as well.

Perhaps, investing ICO project is a good one. Just invest in the ico project that has a KYC rules, because that token for sure will increase after the ico campaign then once being distribute the token to the investors and list in the exchanger it will multiply more than x2 or more.

Investing in ICO at this stage you play roulette because now even promising coins are falling very much

5000$ is a lot of money, but keep in mind the biggest gains with most of the popular currencies have already happend (ETH, LTC etc.) so if you invest now your chance of a huge return like you would have received if you had bought ETH early this year is a lot less likely to happen then back when those currencies were "undervalued", if you now buy in you won´t have the same leverage since the increases in price are still huge compared to classic investments but the chance for 200-400% growth seems smaller with established coins right now. (personal opinion, not the majority opinion). Also keep in mind if the price goes down just after you have bought you will loose a sizable share of your 5000$ on paper (if you dont panic sell since those 5000$ are closer to your heart than you initially thought).

The Other option is investing in ICOs, like with every investment you should stick to grandmas words "never lay all your eggs in one basket".
Research 4-5 ICOs, and i mean really research them, think about their business case, about their real world competition ( most regular people don´t know what the blockchain is, even less so do they know they need it in their life as a customer) and then invest into your top list.
If you do that, you will become a pint-sized venture capitalist, sounds good right?
Just keep in mind you will invest heavily in the founders and their idea of a mainly not yet finished product - this can be the best thing ever (think microsoft,google,amazon,facebook) but i could also be a complete loss like that DVD+ player you bought instead of a Blue-ray player (if you don´t get that reference it is a clear sign i am to old).

With Trading you will have to invest a lot of time constantly, otherwise you will rely on stop loss&take profit orders which could ruin you if you don´t watch them carefully (google gdax ETH flash crash for further reading) and with ICOs you have to take a leap of faith into the founders and them chasing their dream, partly with your money.

I would prefer you invest into ICOs, but maybe because I am part of an upcoming ICO myself, so take that with a grain of salt.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2353634.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2353634.0)

Both are good as long you make the right picks but the fact is no one is a 100% lucky with their picks. When you're not, you might just choose to wait it out.
Both are risky if you do not do your due diligence. ICOs have given 10X returns in the past but that isn't the case anymore. I prefer trading even if it gives me smaller margins  but they are consistent. Like many have mentioned diversification is a good idea. 

You can lose your money like in ICO and in trade. Better learn the area. A lot of knowledge will help you have more profit!

Honestly with only $500 i would choose trading a coin on a legitimate exchange. The odds are higher than you do well than gambling on an unknown ICO which odds are might not even hit the exchange.

Trading is more profitable in my opinion, when you partcipe in a ICO you are not always sure to recover the invested amount.
Buy when you trade everything is in your hand and if you diversify well your portfollio your interest can grow very fast, trading is better when you participate in a ICO they keep your funds for one month at least and you can loose money if the price if the price does not increase or worse if they dont deliver your coin, in the second case you will have been stolen

Investing in projects is sometimes very profitable, yet you can't control this and you can't know the result. With trading, you develop your trading skills and then you earn as you developed yourself. You can control what you're doing in trading.

ICO with KYC rules? Why would that be a good investment?
Anyone who is running ICO can request personal information and say that they need it because of some kind of regulation and only gather personal information of investors. KYC requirement could reject investors from investing in project.

Yes for sure KYC rules is a good sign to invest in ICO. this coins are more attractive then others and they are very serious on their funds and team development. i was participating one of ICO that has KYC and waiting for a sold out.

for now, since I'm just starting out at bitcoin, I'm still focusing on ICOs and bounty campaigns. And when I have accumulated funds, I can go into trading.

Join in the ICO is like a gamble, you need to wait till the token become a dragon or it gonna scam on you
But in trading, its just matter of time, its investment, up and down

Dont forget, over here you can get more, follow the airdrop or bounties, i think its even more profitable

Diversifying always help in spreading risks. Normally, since that is all I have or I have set aside to invest into crypto, then I will take some part of it and invest into BTC and some other top coins that I trust to deliver after looking at the charts over the years and then HODL.

Little part of it can be spread into ICOs as they are a very good way to really make some good profit if you do some good research to invest into the right project and then the rest can go into trading after I have learnt all that it is needed to know about trading safely and efficiently. With this, the OP can never get it wrong.

I saw few times that on etherdelta coins cost cheaper than on ICO. So better buy coins after ICO end.
But it is only if project on ethereum.

For me the most profitable is Trading but you need alot of knowledge in analyzing and speculating the market because trading is just like a strategy game you have so many oponents here specially big investors you need to know what happens next on the market and trading is too very risky for the newbie so if you're newbie you need to invest only small amount of money, In ICO you don't need have much knowledge to learn you just need to analyze if that ICO is good and Legitimate so many Icos are turning into scam and developers running the funds so make sure that the ico you belong are have so many good reviews from other big investors and you need to wait for few months to get your money unlike trading you can sell it anytime depends on you.

You can earn as well as trading and investing in the ICO. But to do it effectively you will need knowledge and experience. But investing all the same is easier than profitable trading.

Trading required experience and lots of patience. FOMO, FUD are spreading very fast in trading crypto. Meanwhile, studying ICO, WP, team behind ICO, the potential ideal are far easier than trading.

Paricipating an Ico contains a lot of risks. It takes a lot of time to end an ICO process and many unexpected situaitons would occur at that time. We see that when coin go exchanges, they can be bought lower than the Ico values. So better be careful about the Ico's. If the risk is worth for the participating the Ico, go for it unles trading is more reliable.

Dear i think trading can be very profitable if you have sound knowledge and experience in the field of crypto world. you can try trading, but learn about the market first. i think it's to better.
Other side
If you want to invest in ICO, then You should first research and check the ANN thread or ERC20 approval. Then you check all information about the team member and read white paper.

Trading is a little risky so I think I would recommend you to invest in ICOs. And there is also a lot of ICOs worth investing out there.

I choose both of them. ICOs are great i love them. I make some profit from investing in ICOs and still going on.
Trading is really hard but its profitable too.

A combination of both works for me.

I do day trading and also invest in ICO's if I think it's worth investing in. So far, all the ICO's I invested in gave me a nice profit.

Make sure you do your own research before you invest in any ICO.

In my own status now if i choose between trading or ICO iv'e  rather to choose initial coin offering project because i have no capital to used in trading investment as now.maybe this ICO project is my first move, before i join in trading activities, in order to gain more profit for the purpose of achieving my dreams in life.

trading is better, currently ICO is not hot..money goes to IFO

I have personal passion for ICOs, it is really invigorating to have the power of an investor.

it would be better if a newbie choose to invest in ico, because, they usually have to invest in longterm investments, and dont need much experiences, however it is very risky because many ico are scam, so i think you should learn slowly how to invest wisely in an ico projects and carefully choose the ico before investing.

In my opinion, trading is much much better than investing in several ICOs.  There are risk in trading but it will give you more profit than ICO. In trading you can earn daily. In ICO, you will earn once.

For trading it will take a lot of time and even more effort that you will need to put in before you can expect any results. Most traders loose 70% of their invested money in crypto. On other hand if you invest in ICO , you need to do your research about hte project and team you are investing in.
Rather why not buy cheap alts such as etherium classic and waves for long term?

for me the best strategy is hold+ICO. trading takes too much time. you must everytime be online, it is difficult. the
more is difficult in the bear market

It seems to me that you are not right. Investment in ICO projects are very risky. Besides, investing their money in ICO you can forget about them for a long time, but with active trading you can get profit faster.

IMO trading relly more profitable than investing in ICO. First of all you are not holding your money if you are trading. Second there are a lot of ICOs which do not meet their expectations.

Diversification is a conservative approach and you must know by now that crypto is not a conservative investment. So go all in with your bias and play profits right in the good sound investment. finally invest 70% more in stable ones.

Trading is much profitable,a good trader always wait for the right time.
ICO is a long term word,thats months of holding if you are unlucky you wont have profit.

Personally, i gain  more from ico than trading i prefer ico

I believe now it's a perfect time to invest in good ICOs.. what does it mean? A competent development team is the most important point. You should know very good who is behind the project, their past projects... people are the key point of successful ICO.

If you are a newbie try learning about cryptocurrency trading and ICOs first. You shouldn't invest in something you don't know.

You can try both, but without investing all the money at once, it'll be horrible idea for newbie.
Trading is more profitable, but no one could tell you how to trade right. Only practice will help you to understand.

I think participating in ico is also a form of trading

For trading on the exchange, certain knowledge and experience are necessary. Here you also need to be careful and start trading better with small amounts and with well-known coins. The main thing is not to take chances before getting the necessary experience.

You should be able to do boh, it is always the wise move to have your investments spread rather than having all your eggs in one basket. 

Trading can yield larger returns but it is quite risky, there are so many ICOs around now it will take a bit of time to fnd the hidden gem.

It actually isn't worth investing in an ICO because the coin has a larger risk of failure before its launch. Just purchase the coins when they become ready to trade.

I  will try to answer one of the most often asked questions on this topic “How to trade ICOs.
The token has been trading under ICO value since the beginning of its release on exchanges, which can also be attributed to delays in the Roadmap.

Don't invest all your money in Trading or ICO alone. You can divide your money 50 percent each or if you just want to try it out just invest what you can afford to lose. Make sure you know some knowledge and skills about trading and choose legit ICO's as well. Good luck!

I prefer trading because ico us scrambling with a lot of people. If luck is very advantageous but difficult once

I suggest that you invest your precious money to trading instead of ICO but first, you need to learn charting, basic/fundamental analysis, technical analysis and read news about the coins your want to trade if you want to earn big profit.

if you do not want to struggle then investing in ICO but if you want to have experience and have expertise then trade, I am sure trade is more profitable than the investment in ICO.

Both trading and ico are profitable these days just be sure to invest in icos that have very legit team members and good project plan you might want to check first the whitepaper for you to be able to know what are the plans of that particular project in the future, In my observation in many icos choose etherium based tokens as they are more profitable in the short time compared to others, trading is also profitable be sure to research first the coins you wanna trade this is risky for the first timers but if you master trading it would be very effective.  

You should definitely start with small amounts when trading.

There is a lot of profit there but you need so much practice and training.  The majority of day traders actually lose money.

As an alternative to ICOs which are very risky try to find coins which are undervalued because they are still under development but have a great development team.

And of course put a little into ICOs...

Dont not do something that you have memorized to do, and be careful of ico because not all are good ones are scam too. Just keep on reading always and be wise also.

Both are good but trading is more of the profitable one and guaranteed way to earn if you know how to do it well.
No one is born as a trader, so you will really need to learn to be able to bet best at it. Still, for ICO, it is more of an investment in the growth of a company or a project and if you can always hit a good project, you are definitely guaranteed a win.

It still does not come easy too, since you will need some research to hit a good project and also count on the team delivering at the end.

Ico is more relaxing, if you are clever, you are sure to make profits, but it's easy to choose a good ICO

It sounds very convincing from a newbie with 1 post 🤣
Try harder

trading or ico are two things that are very profitable if we can do it right, because trading requires experience and patience, usually people will buy coins that are falling, and hope to rise again, but if ico, should be more careful because very much a scam ico project

Do both. Do not put all your money in ICOs and altcoins. Have a balanced portfolio - invest a part in bitcoin/ethereum, another part in top ten altcoins like OMG and the rest in promising ICOs. This is what I recommend. With ICOs do the research, read, follow, monitor. Do not invest based on marketing hype - pages of forums written by paid people, advisors for the marketing sake, etc.

I haven't tried trading yet but I'm sure trading is better than ICOs or joining bounty campaigns. Traders are actually getting huge profits on trading and that's why Bitcoin price is soaring very high because of traders that keep on buying and selling coins in order to pump everyday. Joining bounty campaigns on ICOs in order to get new tokens is only for beginners and doesn't know how to trade because trading requires special skills and experience.

Trading is more profitable than joining Initial Coin Offerings,by trading everyday i manage to have 3-4 btc income per month,well thats a huge money already i dont trust ICOs because i trust myself more.

In the future I'm gonna make money also doing both but I think I'm gonna need experience because as a trader it's not guaranteed you'll be able to get according to the way you want to get. As of now, joining signature bounty campaigns is the only option I have and I doubt if I can make my living by ICOs alone.

it is better to split your deposit, since ico is a more risky type of investment than a crypto currency

Trading or ICO are both risky, its like gambling, its either invest in one or invest on both but make sure that when you invest you will gain profit. Regardless if it is small or huge amount of profit, the important thing is you Learn , after doing those decisions you can now invest on the successful experiment that you have done.
Try this ICO https://www.spectivvr.com i suggest it because i know that when you invest in this it will be valued. For world cause.