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Hey all,

Been investing in crypto for the last few months as well as trying to learn more about it. Initially downloaded Coinbase and deposited $1000 (50% - ETH, 35% BTC and 15% LTC). Since the initial investment I've been topping up each crypto depending on the market conditions (usually between $25 to $150).

Just wanted a little advice on whether it's better to carry on with this strategy and concentrating on these 3 cryptos for long term profit (1-5 years) or would it be advisable to increase the number of alts I have in my portfolio. Was looking at DASH, Ripple, Cardano, Monero, Stellar, NEO, Siacoin and OmiseGO.

Any advise is welcome  :)

On the subject to minimize risks by spliting ones investment the best number is about 30.
That is saying that the risks are not correlated (have relation or connection). In general if you split it you will minimize the total risk.

With that said, I would invest in more cryptos BUT all investments need to be carefully studied and analyized otherwise you are blindly picking.

I think all of the main bitcoin competitors will be huge in 1-5 years. I can;t tell you what to do, but I can tell you what I'm doing: 40% in BTC, 60% in alts. Alts distribution: 25% ETH, 25% LTC and then 5-10 coins by 5-10%, depending of current value and coin swaps.

You may want to put something on xrp as well beside the obvious btc eth (even etc ltc imo are good)

If you can wait for a few months then invest in the new high potential tokens like powr, evx, amb, cob, astro and cnd etc.

You are Setting you numbers right in here . Those 3 coins are the only coins worth investing in right now and weither LTC survive or not you will absolutly make profite with BTC and ETH . They are both widely used as a payment method ,If they crash all the other cryptos are going to crash for sure .So BTC and ETH are the heart of cryptocurrency just be patient on your investment and don't cash out that often.

U have ready a lot of altcoins with good project and still their price is too low, for example Komodo, Ark, Pivx also Verge but in this week Verge had very big pump but for long term u can invest to them.

For long term invesment I think you should put %50 of your money to bitcoin. Because bitcoin keeps going up and up. And you should put other %50 of your money to altcoins such as ethereum, litecoin, waves, dash or any other. I put all my money to altcoins when bitcoin was going down but 1 month later I realized that if I would put only to bitcoin I would earn much more. For short term you can try altcoins.

What I noticed is you put even more with ETH rather than bitcoin but if I were you, I'll put more capital with bitcoin and if possible more than ETH. If you'll just buy and hold with the three coins that you prefer to hold for 5 years then just stick to it while those other coins that you are getting interest of are good coins too, you can do the same strategy with what you are doing with the three ones. Diversifying your investment is a good one and you seem to have a good potential portfolio. I can't say a thing anymore, I think you know what you are doing.

For starters, I think you have excellent choices there with your alts that you would invest in, if you would choose to do so.

I'd choose for example two of them (my top choices would be Ripple and Stellar, because the are still low priced and have huge potential) and expand your portfolio, just to diversify a bit. If one goes down, you always have backup.

On the other hand, I wouldn't do all of them. I have about 11 different altcoins now and I notice it becomes too much to all follow closely (I can almost hear people laughing now  ;D) if you  don't want to put too much time in it. Therefor, I'm looking to make my portfolio smaller.

I would not go too far from Bitcoin, it still shows its power, and can easily reach the moon, so I would advise you to keep 50% -60% in the BTC, and the rest is already on the situation

For long term Komodo looking very good because of project and very low price for this kind of project I think 2018 will be year of Komodo. Also ARK is coin with bright future and Syscoin with good project.

I've read somewhere that ADA is a promising coin. I haven't research well about it but you might want to consider it.

You've got good altcoins on your list and if I were to make a top 10 I will surely include those ones. Diversifying those coins is also a good technique in my opinion so if worst came to worst, all your eggs are not on the same basket. I'd make BTC on top though as it is the father of all coins and still promising when it comes to its price.

So far I didn't give much attention to the big guys (BTC, ETH, XRP). I focused on the risky little ones (30 millions USD market cap). I must say, I had some lucky shots, but, above all, pretty much anything is lucky as all coins go up together. :)

You have a good portion of portfolio. Better  to add Monero 10%   and NEO 10% and lessen your Ethereum to 30%.  Bitcoin must always have a bigger portion in your pie. In my portfolio I have 50% bitcoin and half of it are altcoins.

Most of the counted ones in above are good ones to buy in long run. But the problem is that you can have limited profit from them. The best is to get potential 5x 10x ones, which are found hard.

Tron is with very good project this coin will have very bright future, also Verge have very promising project with Komodo also Syscoin have great project for future.

I recommend to see on Aion and Enigma. My opinion that those projects will develop and get much profit on long-term in 1-2 years horizon. You must see on technology  or platform but not highly specialized coins. Try to get more info about

Why you put some beginner amount on ETH while bitcoin only 35%, i think most profitable is bitcoin when you wan't holding in long term than altcoins.
Bitcoin has a big potential to earned you more when it comes of investment in long term compared that altcoins.
Don't focus on altcoins they have more risky to the investors less risk is bitcoin ever.
Just add on you portfolio for long term investment WAVE.

Long term investment make you all top 20 cryptocurrencies. Decide wheter is good and bad for you.

all in to DGB is very promising 8) :o

I suggest that your strategy is not bad and if you will go with your current strategy then you will not lose but you will be in benefit because these three are growing with the passage of the time. Hold on like that if you are just investor and do not know to trade and if you are expert in trade then try to move from one to another when you see high price increase in one or another.

I have couple of favorite coins. I've been keeping them for a while and will be keeping.
Some coins just comes and goes on shorter period.

Some added diversity is always a good thing, it can reduce your risk over time, of course it may reduce profit if the other coins don't perform as well as the first 3 but on the contrary they may perform better. They're good coins you've listed, even SIA I'm skeptical about but as a long term investment with a small percentage of your funds I'd go with it.

https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/942578173031587840

up up up and awaaay  :D

That is too much, for long term you should have only top 5 coins in the coin market cap, also much better to put most of your money in bitcoin for safer investment because we all know that bitcoin is anonymous. The volatility makes our profit getting higher that is why if we have more bitcoin in the future it has a big possibility to make us rich.

The 3 coins you picked are pretty good, especially ethereum and bitcoin. I'd maybe swap out the litecoin for some other altcoin such as the omisego you suggested yourself.

Maybe what do you mean with top 20 cryptocurrencies is the cryptos currencies that has large of capitalization market cup we can see more on here https://coinmarketcap.com/ although i am not sure about your statement, should you give us more information about it will makes clear for all of the people on here, i don't know what the indicator that be used by you to choose long term investment in digital coins.

it is much better to choose the top altcoins that are already proved their name in the crypto market and also the stability of its price for long term investment

I think you hold 1-2 big coins like Eth and Bitcoin is enough. Those price are high and take lots of time to bring profit so dont split your investment.

if for a long period of your investment and have a lot of capital yes you may just buy another altcoin and hold until later you check again. if I think the coins you want to invest are pretty good for the long term because altcoin is promising for the future. more coins there is investment and capital there are more chances you get his profit.
chances are the middle of the year altcoin will experience an increase like that so it is suitable for HOLDS now

I recommend only bitcoin for long term investment, yes it is risky to invest in 1 coin but i believed that this coin will not leave us nothing. There are many coin in coinmarketcap but i used them only for short term trading because i just want to make fast income.
I think the mission of bitcoin is to make people rich and helping other people who are need money to sustain their expenses.

You currently have 3, so you can add a couple more. I won't advise you to add to many, especially for a long term investment plan. Go for 5-6 top options, from your considerations Ripple and Monero are two good ones with potential in the long run.

Your strategy is excellent for long term investment. The other coin in your purview should ve well research and you should be able to established that they meet your investment criteria.

if you are looking for the long term there is no other choice than bitcoin, bitcoin is the supreme leader.

I think this is the best distribution I have seen so far. 90% in the big ALTs is maybe a bit big but it depends on your risk that you want to take. I would have 25% BTC and 25% in LTC and 20% Ethereum. That will leave about 30% for other ALT coins.

As for those I would have at least 1-2 or more from the top 10-15 cryptos, such as XRP, Monero or what you believe in for about 15%. Then I would find 3-5 Mid Cap Coins (top 100 cryptos) for the remaining 10-15%, what those are is up to you, a few are: ARK, TenX, ZCoin, Ethos. Then I would try to find some small caps, unknown coins that could be huge gainers but that I believe in and invest a small amount of my capital in them. Since these are high risk it should probably not be more than 5% in total of your investment but if you are lucky and do your research right then you might find the 100x in here :). A few I am looking at are: DeepOnion, Monetha and Substratum which I think have long term premise.

You can invest in some of the ICO projects appropriately. Compared with BTC,DASH and ETH, the benefits are stable, but the benefits are not high, and the benefits of ICO project are very high and the risks are very high.

Bitcoin is the best coin to invest in long-term future.Apart from bitcoin ethereum is best option.Ethereum also has great potential.

viberate should be a good coin for hodling, if you are interested you can read more about it here: https://www.viberate.io/

If you do blindly picking so if it is lost you dont know what the reason so you can not fix it.
Blindly picking of any coin is very high risk. To reduce the risk, we need to do carefully research.

I think your strategy is definetly correct. As you say you did a long term investment and the possibility of making profit from your portfolio is very very high.

Unfortunately, we have lost sight of the fact that the main purpose of cryptocurrencies is to provide a more practical, efficient and reliable monetary alternative than fiat money, and today they have only become speculative investment schemes without practical use. Therefore I am not very supportive of long-term investments in cryptocurrencies, they are a bubble that is about to burst, a trending business that will soon be displaced by another business model where everyone will want to move their money.

Just keep it up and maybe add some investments later and keep it growing until your content or satisfy with your profits on hand. And maybe put up some additionals to Btc and keep it as a priority coin for you.

I would like to join in some signature bounties and get some free coins as my long term investment, since I do not put in any money and the tokens will be not much, so I think it is suitable for long term investment.

Long term investment I would focus on altcoins if I were you.
Tron, XRB, ADA, NEO are all good choices, but in the end you must do your own research and come up with a good portofolio that suits you.

Ripple and SIA may be the choice of value when talking about long term investment. Behind them are projects which can get really massive if adopted by the audience these are meant to. You did a good coin selection, if you really believe in the projects invest and hold.

You have a good strategy for real, long term investing, but I would advice to add small amounts of risky coins from ICOs, they can grow much more than BTC or ETH. Here is my advice from another topic:

As i look in the crypto currencies this time, only Cardano and Ripple from the top 10 crypto currencies in terms of market cap are still pumping while the rest turned red in color in the last 24h Change column. I will invest on these 2 cryptos with the same amount of money to pour in respectively while they are still cheap because i believe in the potential of these 2 cryptos.

Bitcoin, ethereum, monero are my picks they all do something different to eachother and both got great devs with their own niche markets.

diversifying your portfolio is always a good idea. If you buy 10 different coins of projects you believe in, there might be one which will be the next facebook or amazon in between. just my 2 satoshis

it is up to you if you want an additional cryptos in your portfolio, those 3 altcoin you been choose to invest for a long term are good altcoin, and no doubt that after 5 years from now, those 3 altcoins you have are pump and become more profitable. and the other altcoins you want to add are a good altcoin too. many of us are not just investing on some good/popular altcoin but we are trying to choose more than that we knew that those alts can be survive for 2-3 year for more better profits.

If you are aiming for bigger profit, you need to focus on long term investment. You need to have patience on waiting so that after many months you can gain what you want.

Well I really like your plan. I am sure your portfolio is quite up now. Also what I like is that this is one of the least riskiest portfolio. Patience is the virtue and I am sure you will do really well in the future based on this plan alone.

However I would still suggest to add couple other coins with different use case than these three.

i think rdd, ltc, solaris, xrp good for long term

I think your choice of investment already good and i don't have any problem with the split, i don't like buying too many coins with only $25 worth of amount because it's too little, so u suggest a minimum of $100 each coin if you want to add something into your portfolio. Your choice is solid, keep holding at least until next year.

Yes, I also think his investment strategy is reasonable. If you are investing in some ICO projects, the earnings will be substantial in a few years.

For one year but XRP and XMR to your list. Especially XMR and its family will be most wanted in exchanges

For long-term strategy, you have chosen the correct coin. I would advise you to switch the ETH and BTC position though. You should invest the most in BTC, like 50% or 60%. But overall I agree with your choices, BTC LTC and ETH. The latter coin that you mentioned wouldn't be suitable for long-term holding. They're great too, don't get me wrong, but they will work best in shorter-term IMO. Buy those coin now and see 6-12 months from now, you should already get a considerable profit from those coins. Waiting too long on these coins might not be the best strategy. Also, if I may add my choice of alts for short-term hold: VEN, ELF, and MSP. You can thank me later ;)

I still hold my bitcoin, ethereum and monero for a long term investment because I know if I can hold it, in the future, I can make a huge profit especially today the price is not yet increased too high. besides that coin, I have another coin that I think could help me to gain more profit and I still buy the coins if the price is down. I have my patient to waiting the time is come and I don't have to be panic when I see the price is down and this is just my chance to buy more amount.

your portfolio actually looks good but diversifying it more is better since it will increase your chances of gaining some profit especially that you are planning a long term investment. Ripple and monero are good coins to invest in especially long term and i got an addition to that which is avt. Its a new coin but its  progress is astonishing and i see some potential in this project. However, last pick is on you so better choose wisely.

Still lots of people going for top 100 listed coinmarketcap coins still there is lots of coins with high potentiality like dimcoin , paypie , power ledger having strong concept and working product you can always invest for good potential altcoins instead of investing top listed coins.

Most of members that are investing in Cryptocurrency have a common goal, it's for the long-term investment as I myself is holding tokens for my future. The feeling that your coins are increasing will make you feel better and you'll guarantee your future.

The simplest and most profitable strategy is to choose the top 10 crypto currency and make a long-term contribution. And it's better to forget about this contribution for a couple of years and then enjoy life)))

I like
1) Deep Onion
2) Ark
3) EOS

I think every coin is good for a long term investment.. but if hold litecoin for example.. and three month later you check the price out and you get a big profit and you feel enough for that profit, you can sell the coin with no doubt. But for me eth, ripple, dash, litecoin are really good for a long term investment

I'm one of the investors that is very lucky that I invested a coin that has a low circulating supply and I bought huge amount of coins while it's cheaper.
And that's for my long-term investment, maybe I'm gonna dump it for my wedding next year. I think I'm lucky enough to have this opportunity to earn money fast through Cryptocurrency investment.

Look for some new alts in ANN and invest a bit in it thru trading.

Well, Bitcoin and Ethereum are obviously very good choice for any long term investment. Why not, diversify a bit and include a few more alts like Verge, POWR, Waves, Digibyte and Neo.

Oyster Pearl (PRL) is for my long-term because I bought huge amount of coins while they're cheaper and now it's little bit expensive as per coin is valued $0.50 to $1 up and down.
It's for my future and I'm lucky enough to have it future my future self.

When I invested Oyster Pearl PRL coins last early November it was already listed on coinmarketcap.com but in the least coins but I see their team that they're more dedicated to the project and the project itself is really amazing and more effective to me.

DASH and Ripple are good on your list, try to hold them.

Investing in coins is like investing in a company, therefore, it is advisable to spread your money or your profit to more wide pool of coins. If you are pursuing a long term investment, go for the coin with the fastest rate of growth than going for those who are already big.

Buy as much you can.

For long term investment this 3 option : ETH, BTC and LTC, for me I choose ETH at the first, beside the other.
My prediction ETH will profitable more BTC and LTC. But number 1, I still choose bitcoin.

The best thing in crypto is to have millions out of hundred dollars investment,this is why i dont stop loving crypto,i am a day trader and i earn 10-15% of my portfolio everyday.

If you invest from 1 to 5 years, invest in altcoins top 10! Because these are really potential altcoins!

If you will not trade and hold, or hodl, you can consider NAV, WAVES and ETC for the long term investment. I suggest you to have a small portion of your money on some good small market-cap coins as well.

Pay attention to the top 30 coins on Coinmarketcap.

The are plenty of good altcoins with powerful teams.

I would suggest you to add some altcoins to your portfolio (diversifications). We all agree that 2017 is the beginning of altcoin era, where people not only talking about Bitcoin but also enjoying a bunch of ICO. A wise man once said, "The way to become rich is don't put all your eggs in one basket". But, another wise man also said, "The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket". It is up to you.

Not all cryptocurrency enthusiasts are after into trading so people would invest for their long-term because most of us couldn't afford Bitcoin and other expensive coins so in my experience, I bought coins for a hundred of dollars and wait for the coins to increase after few months or a year.

Indeed, top Altcoins have proven that they're better than other listed coins so you'll feel confident when there's roller-coaster ride of prices because in the end future, you'll be rewarded because the increase is guaranteed.

Long Term investement for me would be Ethereum, RIpple, Ethereum Classic, Stellar and Siacoins.
These are going to be very profitable.

in 2018 anything on coinbase will make money.
Just waiting on Ripple to be added ;)

Why LTC is in your list ?What do you think it is worth to invest? In my opinion , LTC is a common altcoin where ever you can find , and DOGE too.
Distinctive and innovative altcoins are my favorite.

There is always a good time in everything. Investing in Bitcoin or in other cryptocurrencies have a right time in investing which involves holding and trading also. It is somewhat connected that it really needs your time to carefully watch and observe this organization and also the market this crytocurrencies are into. With knowing and observing, you can determine if this crypto are worth investing or not.

As I can see you are interested only in top-50 coins. But to get the highest ROI you must have some small cap coins which could easily raise due to theirs technology. Take a look at universa project. It is not listed yet, but I suppose it would be the new game changer.

Long term investment BTC, XRP, ETH  ( my opinion ) maybe some ICOs also.

There are a lot of good and promising projects. Choose for every taste. Cartoons - Dragonchain, the Chinese platform - NEO, the future of the banking system - Ripple. And so you can continue for a long time. Look out of the top 50 in the ranking.

Nothing wrong with your strategy. It is great that you are focused on the top cryptocurrencies. You could try and go for the top ten if it flows with your strategy

Quantum Resistant Ledger - QRL

Mark my words, QRL price will see $250 by end of 2018.
qbit rates will increase faster than expected,
just look at the trend of worry:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=bitcoin%20quantum%20computer

Already double my money in 2 weeks, and it's only taking off now!

The uniqueness of the project, low price, low supply, the stability
when all altcoins go to the red...

It's definitely my choice for 2018 and beyond. Just my 2 cents!

very difficult to find a good coin or token for longterm maybe its bitcoin maybe not the markets are crazy right so nobody knows where it will go... maybe neo maybe dash maybe etc

a good long-term investment is XVG, it is for now the price is down but in the future like 8-12 months ahead the price will increase from the current price (my estimate is the 2-3x price increase from the current price).

That is tottaly true man. Maybe the safest HODL is bitcoin really long term. I would say maybe some ICO are very good and should try long term hodl if the project is really really good and has potential to really rise in the next 2-5 years..

That is right. Top Altcoins made its holders a lot of money in last couple years by prooving that holding those alt coins as long term investment is actually great idea.

Personally I did a lot of mistakes by not holding long term. It is my lesson learned for 2017.

In a long term you can expand the portfolio a bit and put 50% in bitcoin

I've been holding Waves over a year. I'm in profit but not as much as others.
Planning to buy some OMG. I see good potential as a long term holding.

the steps you do in my opinion are very good indeed.
BTC, ETH and LTC coins have a very attractive price.
If you continue to maintain you may benefit.
and if you want to add altcoin again I think monero can be selected.

A good choice, I myself recently bought OmiseGo has already earned 20 percent but so far I do not plan to sell

i prefer on NEO, Stellar and Ripple from your option, but i also want to give you some coin that might make you want to invest for long term
You can try on ARK,NAV, and LTC, but you need to make your own research to make it sure  ;D

I dont think its good to invest for a very long term, coin that you invest have any chance to be delisted from exchanges

Buy top 100 coin from coinmarketcap. Withdraw 30% of profit 1 every year, and that is it. I start invest into crypto 9 month ago, and I got x11 from my deposit.

I think in 2018 will be year of Iota, aslo price of Iota now is too low for his project. U can buy for long term Iota and just be patient and at the end u ll be reward with big profit.

Better to keep those three you have initially started with and now start seeking for more potential alternative cryptocurrencies in which you can see that is beneficial for your part in a way that it is also good for long term holding and investment. Sticking yourself with those three only is like locking yourself in a room wherein you cannot see the wonder of the world. Better keep yourself out of the box and seek for opportunities among other alts so that you can be able to expand and maximize your capacity and capability to make your money grow.

I agree that Iota is a good project but I doubt that this is just her year and she is now and so in the top of all currencies so everything here is ambiguous

In 2018 most valuable coins will be coins with privacy structure, and Komodo, Pivx are not in high price now, i think they ll have very big increasing in 2018.

In case of long investment:-
1.Ripple-if unbelievable but true ripple is the hot coin at this moment & it's touched 84 billion market cap.
2.Nem-for long term investment I think best.
3.Monero-XMR is the next eth in future.

Wait for Universa.io to come out of exchanges and make sure to at least buy in a decent amount of money. That's a good long term hodl for yah.

IMO, your strategy is good, BTC, ETH and LTC are the evergreen coins to hold for the long term. However, I have one concern about you toping up less than $200 per transaction in coinbase. As far as I know of, the transaction fees charged by coinbase is higher for transaction lower than $200. You may want to check it out.

As for diversifying your portfolio to the other altcoins, the coins you have chosen are good. My favourite among them are Monero, Neo and Omg.

for one of the best long term investment options is NXT and XLM because I think the price will grow for the future and will get an increased value

Today everything moves so fast that "long term investments" are on weekly base!
With so high volatility you can make big gains, but if your priority is long term safety, better bet on more traditional assets.

Alts will surely get you more profits than investing in BTC but why you still need BTC in your portfolio? because BTC dictates how the market flows.

brother the coins in which you have invested is best coins according to me and will give you much profit in 2018, if you are thinking in investing in other coins than MONERO,DASH,NEO is better.

I am also studying this coin for weeks now and I can say that its a good coin and have a big potential to pump so bettet to hold some now. Also XEM are slowly pumping this year is great year for this two coin. Long term investment is a good strategy with a great coins and more profitable.

if i want long term investment better options are btc,xrp,mnx,ether and swissborg

check out utrust they are launched today it's very good coin will 10x in no time

I see no problem with your portfolio , though 1000$ is not that big and gains would take a lot of time for you to appreciate it's profit. Long term investment for me is always a win/win situation in such top and promising coins, Lot of room to grow and price soon will rise more. Though, we wouldn't really know what will happen to it's future but since it has the reputation and strong support , the only way it's going is to rise.

To  secure our financial free future we save in banks or invest in different assets but they full of risk and having low income,Long term investment in Leader coins or altcoins means alot. Invest today and forget once feel you earn alot as you want to fulfill your needs cash out and re invest another platform to make double your income.

I have not used coinbase. I'm not sure if you own the priv keys to the address where your funds are. I would recommend keeping only a small % of your portfolio in an exchange or where you plan to trade regularly and do not have priv keys.

Recommendation wise, I think this will be the year for privacy coins as more and more regulations are coming in - XMR, PivX, Zcash, etc.
You may want to check the privacy coin comparison here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2669844.msg27244101#msg27244101

To maximize profit with long term investment in cryptocurrency market just learn fundamental of some coin, learn about purpose of the project, what think that project make different with others, and the project should be consist of professional and solid team. For BTC, ETH. and LTC is good choice and others crypto that has big potential is VCT, ARK, WAVES, NAV, NEBLIO.

This is a good investment strategy but you still have to expand your investment portfolio because diversification can help you achieve more consistent returns on investment over time and reduce your overall risk on investment. You can also invest on devalued coins expecting to reap in future gains as they grow in the long run.

how much money you have to invest?? if you have small amount like (500/1000$) then you can invest in waves , etn, and xrp. remember you must have to hold this even their price going low.

I think your total investment is an important point. You also need to think about what you are looking for. Do you want to "play the lottery" and try to find the 100x-1000x coin with your $100? Or are you looking to invest in a "retirement fund" with $1000+?

For "playing the lottery" do some research on some small-cap coins with some unique features: DeepOnion, NoLimitCoin, QRL etc... Find one or two you like and place your $100 bet :).

If you are looking to invest a larger amount then I would suggest diversification so that you have most of your money in top 10 coins (XRP, LiteCoin, ...), a little less in the top 100 (Neo, Ark, ZCoin, ...) and finally again a small percentage in the possible "lottery winners".

But in all cases, make sure to do your research and not just listen to what people say here. Weigh their views and find your own way (and stick to it)!

Yes, regular investment encryption currency project is a good way to make a profit, because you can fool short-term ups and downs, can also be encrypted monetary growth brought about by the profits, also can ignore most of the risk,

Correct we need to based on how much is our capital, having small capital will gives us small profit then we need to have lower value of coins like what mate said, but if you have big amount of profit dont forget to have main coin which is bitcoin because it can give you good profit by holding it for long period of time.

Look at coins like Ethereum and Ripple for a long term investment. You will most likely see profits within a year.

If you can wait for a few months then invest in the new high potential tokens like powr, evx, amb, cob, astro and cnd etc. and earn high profits

I believe that ethereum is for long term investment but to ripple? I guess it was only for short term. Because this coin are increasing silently and unpredictable, other than that this coin are smoothly increasing for short term and fall down immediately if necessary. That's the reason I don't believe much on that coins.

I am already hold lots of coins for long term, some of them prizes low right now but I believe they will rise in 2018. And I also trust ethereum are good for long term investment. I believe this year will be great for cryptoworld.

I like long term investment. Normally long term investment are more profitable compared today short term investment. Can I say that ?
Ethereum litecoin bitcoin are the best choice for long term investments and this 3 coin are 60% of my portfolio. And the 20% off my portfolio are some good potential and good foundations coin. 20% I will invest in ico.

you can wait and watch market value of bitcoins and then you seeing market up by up then you some money to invest in long terms.

Look for the good ongoing ICOs,surely it will give you more gains than investing in existing alts.

In your place, I would try to invest some of the money in projects that are starting up with ICO.
For example in UService. If the project turns out to be successful, you can earn x50 or x100 for a couple of years.

You put the right three good coins for long term investment but I suggest you give 50% to bitcoin because bitcoin would uprise this year, but adding to that three coins, ripple and neo would be the best coins to add up to your list.

Bitcoin and ETH. Most alts are just speculation with 0 value.

I think that it's not the best decision to invest in top coins at the moment. It's the time of alts and many projects grow day by day in opposite to top 10 coins.

It is actually good that you have the three best crypto specially bitcoin. Bitcoin will surely uprise this year because it'll become more popular. I also advice you to find good ICOs out there because it'll give you bigger profit.

In my assessment in terms of long term investment which is for me was good to invest in are Adex, Neo, Waves, Eth and of course Bitcoin the origin of all altcoins, where there is a rumor that this year 2018 bitcoin will become 60k$ up to 80k$ each.

good altcoin to be a long term investment in 2018 are XVG, FUEL, IOTA and TNT

Your choice is very good and even if you stick only with BTC, ETH, and LTC you will not make mistake. In 5 years ETH developers and ETH investors will push it up in the growth value. BTC will rise for sure cause it has a limitation of blockchain blocks and LTC higher transaction confirmation times will attract even more investors and that will start LTC rising curve. You must decide alone how much bankroll are you willing to spend and invest in other coins. I would probably stick to these 3 and with the spare profit, I would make an investment in probably 2 more coins. Ripple would be one of my choices. Good luck with your choosing and long-term investment.

No matter what you decide, there is a sure strategy that never fail in cryptocurrency investing or trading. Look for quality ICO like ALGORY.IO of which it's ICO is on going and invest substancial amount and you could be cashing out 10x of your invested sum very soon!

There are many coins you can invest Long term.

Ethereum
Ripple
Stellar
IOTA
Litecoin
NEO

Any of these can increase in value over a long period and the profit is good!

If you want a nice long term investment, you should do it with other crypto's like the ICO investments because you can get there a profit share every year but it depends in their platforms. Investing in top cryptos is like trading so this is short investment and not good for long term one.

Hello, as you know, that betting to bigger, more popular coin like BTC and LTC will surely bring you some profit but not that big enough just like if you invest in new and undervalued coin.

New coin that is promising and is price wise will offer you higher returns than any coin just like PINCOIN.

Lets just take for instance, BTC has 221B$ as of this writing. LTC has 12B$, that was big market already, whereas if you invest in PINCOIN , as it goes to exchanger with great platform, it only needs a couple of Million$ just to double your holdings.

It seems to me that it is possible to expand the portfolio. Nevertheless, the situation is changing very quickly. The same Lightcoin at the dawn of crypto was second after bitcoin, and now in sixth place. And, indeed, the first echelon of cryptovariants expanded to 10 - Bitcoin, ETH (Ethereum), DASH (Dash), XRP (Ripple), XEM (Nem), NEO (NEO), IOTA (Miota), Zec (Zcash), ETC (Ethereum Classic),  EOS (Eos). And of course everything depends on the amount available. If money is not so much, then probably you should not spray them at all, priorities should be of course.

Well Ethereum is pretty good for long term investments as its price is stably increasing a little by little. I think you should divide your investments more into other good altcoins too as you would have planned too. But even if you don't do that I don't think there would be much risk as you have chosen some good coins. With your current investment I think you would be getting pretty good amount of profit after around 1 year, also be patient as it is a long term investment. If you panic and sell, it would result bad.

Honestly, I would invest in other altcoins too, to mitigate the risk of losing my portfolio. Some coins may rise, while some may fall. So it's better to have a diverse portfolio.

Long term suggestions:  Monero, NEO, stellar, SIacoin YES for HLODING!

others not so much, or at least give in how much you can afford to lose, DASH because the founder of DASH has over 50% in his possesion, so ultimately he can controll the price, Ripple ok but I would still suggest to go eazy on these two. But still DAsh, Ripple, monero will get pumped up when coinbase is going to accept them

Ethereum and Ripple are my long term investment options if you are interested.

My current trading bets for 2018 is XRP, ETH, ETC, and ZEC.  I also have some investments in Cardano, Nxt, and Iota. These coins has a huge potential.

there are many altcoins on the market that you can invest in longterm but in this year, it will be Ethereum, Ripple and IOTA, these 3 coins are very famous at the end of 2017, so in this new year of 2018, they will rise more and bring more effect to crypto market.

I think you need to expand your portfolio. And you cited the example of a very good and worthy coins. I have them all in the portfolio. And all of them are very good prospects for growth.

I have the same holdings,these coins are very good coins to hold for long terms.

for the long term I still hold the ETH as the best investment, because currently ETH has a stable price. although a lot of coins are emerging but the movement is still not as stable as ETH.

For long investment, your portofolio is good, especially BTC and ETH. Both are great for long run. ETH's price is increasing little by little. If you want to diversify your portofolio, i think Iota and XRB will be rise in 2018, especially xrb. The community is strong and the project is great. Reaching top 20 cmc without getting listed on any big exchange yet, you can imagine what price will be once it listed on any big exchange.

Yes in a portfolio of course it is necessary to have basic good coins which are known to all. But the part of investments needs to be made in coins at ICO stage. One of such coins of Algory.io. Look narrowly and pay attention to her.

You might want to consider investing on ripple since its doing well right now. Nevertheless, the three cryptos to which you are investing now are good choices since these are among the top 10 tokens. I'm sure you did your research about the percentage you can keep on waiting you have a great strategy but i advise to keep yourself posted and make use of some of your profits. :D :D :D

I have invested in TRX and it's been pretty good so far. They seem to have some interesting events coming up and please do check it out as well.

uNIFY and RUPX.
very low max supply.pos.good coins and community.
unify is up 2500 % in a few months(from 0.006 to 0.22)
unify has maximum coins of 19 million.marketcap is near 4 million.
bittrex and cex.io are planning to add this coin soon.
10 $ easy by june 2019.

Long-term and interesting investment to make when you have a reliable currency to save. Eth o neo and even btc are great options for a hold of months or even years because they are extremely promising currencies.

Earlier I did not have the patience to store coins for a long time. But then I analyzed the results of the trade and realized that it is more profitable to store the coin for several months. Now I form my investment portfolio. I already bought a ripple, IOTA, NEO

I'm trying to figure this out too.  There's a poll of the top coins going on twitter:  https://twitter.com/CryptoREI/status/947940161953742848  (http://twitter.com/CryptoREI/status/947940161953742848)

My thoughts are
30% Bitcoin
30% Ethereum
20% Ripple
20% LTC

For just holding long term for ALL of 2018 long term hold

Totally agreed. Top cryptos are already gained some value, it is good to trade in short term. The point here is to catch good project during their ICO because most of them gives a lot of discounts like %50 or give a lot of bonus coins. For example eth lend, if you compare its ICO price to current price you will understand what I mean.

My longterm investments are:

Litecoin (LTC)
Vege (XVG)
Stratis (STRAT)

Maybe ethereum (ETH) soon

Short term:
Vertcoin (VTC)
Start coin (START)

I think yes, specially the eth. It's seems that this altcoin will give a big profit on this 2019.

This is my goal this is a definitely great move buddy. May I know which exchange you bought these from? Like Idk if I should just be going for just 1 exchange or buy 1 from here and there and then consolidate them in 1 wallet? The transaction fees are crazy stupid if I do it that way :(

 there is not a lot alts which didnt made a huge jump..
 For long term I thing there are few coins like,ltc,dash,eth
question is which has the most profıtable one?

Dont know if you are interested in small lowcaps but they have a great risk reward ratio. In fact they are a bit more risky but the gains are insane. Currently I am accumulating KEKCOIN, Netko, still some POSW, TIME and PXI.

Some are already up but some not, check them out :) especially for kek and posw I am expecting big moves in the next 2-3 months.

I think buy an altcoins not in top 10 you can buy a cheap price right now and invest it for a long term 1 or 2 years, definetily it will give you more gain someday when you have to do that.

You can keep what you have now and buy some Iota because it will increase rapidly this year.

I believe longterm investments are mostly profitable. I recommend NEO, IOTA, XLM, TRX and Verge.

For long term investment I would suggest you to give a look at Bancor. It is in my view a game changer for the whole world of cryptos and after a long ice age following the ICO now the price has started to go up.

I think ENJ (in binance exchange) is good for long term investment. It will be used for gamers to buy, exchange the game assets.

this could work if we have another free money that we don't use for anything and we can hold it for 1 or 2 years from now. but the most important that we should need is we can stay calm and not attract to panic when the price is suddenly getting down. the long term investment could only work if we can hold our self without being panic and I think every coins in the exchange have big potential to increase high in the long term. but choosing the altcoins that not in the top 10 is a great idea because we can buy the coins with the cheap price and we can hold as long as we can while we can check how much the price from time to time.

Diversification is key to staying healthy in crypto.  You Hv 3 investments but the truth is there are many other viable options that would drive the growth of your portfolio.

If I understand correctly you said you top it continuously after sometimes... If you research some good project and put a 100 or 200usd and wait for a month or two.... You are on your way to dramatically increase the amount in your portfolio.

 
   
  
 I think you should put %50 of your money to bitcoin. Because bitcoin keeps going up and up. And you should put other %50 of your money to altcoins such as ethereum, litecoin, waves, dash or any other. I put all my money to altcoins when bitcoin was going down but 1 month later I realized that if I would put only to bitcoin I would earn much more. For short term you can try altcoins.

Invest on btc and you will be rewarded sooner or later, just be patient and have the courage to wait for the reward

Dude that's the way to go for me too. Crazy how the price have rised already in 2018 for Ripple and Ether. It's a long term win win I would say :D

it depends on your goal and temperament...if you like the risk and just want to try yourself, you can not to hold it for long, but try something else...if you just want to make a good investment, then it's better to take proven coins and invest with a long-term perspective

I'm saying it again do not forget to look at UNIVERSA. Wait till they come out of exchanges and make sure you have the spare to get it. https://medium.com/universa…/week-3-happy-new-u-b3261dd307d2

Just don't miss out the project is very promising for a long term HODL.

Bancor is a long-term project before it becomes successful, there will be many ups and downs. I plan to keep it for a very long time.
I have 300 Bancor tokens and I believe that this is not the critical amount that will change my life if I merge at the current price, I'm ready to wait even two years, till the project will be promoted, maybe it will not be in a year, but it's better to take a chance and try.

See from hing price altcoin i think long term investment is bitcoin of course but be side that etherium and monero have good image like high price, coin exchange, long term investment ect.

I have started using bancor platform and I see great future in it if community embraces. I agree!
I also think NEO and omisego are 2 coins that will keep growing like crazy in upcoming years.

most of ,,old,, shitcoins was/is hightly overpumped now, so I will prefer to invest into a few quite new projects with an interesting ideas, supported by cooperation with well-known companies  :-X :-\

That is true, Bancor is one of the long term investment project. It was steady for long time till last month and finally it started to move. It is still in beta phase, soon it will be growing even faster.

I think with investing in the Top 10/20 coins you would do good. Long term investments are also in my opinion shares from exchanges like Kucoin, COSS(i'm not invested in) and the
upcoming STeX exchange, because they give a certain percentage of fees as rewards to their shareholders.

This is the main coin on the market, where you can now invest.
1. Cardano (ADA)
The programming code of the Cardano platform is one of the most secure. The project also closely cooperates with government regulators, in particular, in the fight against money laundering.
2.  NEM (XEM)
NEM is a very ambitious project developed on open public code. Without a doubt, this is one of the most promising market participants. The developers have implemented several important principles in the platform: cheap and fast transactions, high productivity, a system of the participants' reputation, orientation to the traditional financial sector of the economy.
3. TRON  (TRX)
A decentralized entertainment platform, implemented on the principle of a social network. A unique alternative to Google Play and the AppStore.

Yes i agree on that because long term invesyment is jist lime waiting for a big opportunity to earn big amount but in every moment we really need a big patience because we  can be tempted  to sell earlier specially when people get panic about pump and dump i believe that  long term investment is profitable if we really get focus on it.

i think BNB will be a good invest for long term investing, their promises sounds good.

l can trying long tarm investment is very good.long tarm invest is a develop alt and so more alt get up.sometime people is not let long time save altcoin.so its not enough profit her wallet.long tarm crypto is very good idea so many people.it is not bad idia cryptocurrencies markets.we must be use long tarm investment day by day.it earning good side for people.

 think investment in the long term is bitcoin because they have an increasingly high price value so it would probably be useful in the future so we don't have to worry about it but if you want a long-term investment short then the choice is the ethereum altcoin which has great opportunities for the future are good so you just select a long investment

long-term investment is indeed very profitable, but we must choose the right altcoin and my advice if you want to invest long-term buy only ETH and hold up to the price through $ 10000 more

I'm totally agree with this post, Bancor is a very promising project, i also believe that Bancor token will be a long term investment that will success. Maybe one year is enough to see that this project will be huge.

For the second investment, i think Bitcoin Cash (BCH) will have a bright future too, you can see it now, I hope it'll become true.

ETH will be best coin for the long term. Because it really great alt and a lot of token based on this blockchain. Or you can get after ICO some dumped token.

I think if want for long term POWR is the right choice, because coin it is suitable for long term

a good long-term investment is ETH

I think bitcoin will still be good in the near future so you can hold it but you can buy in other alts which you think is good. 40% amd 50% may be good.

I chose XVG as a long term investment and now it's proven the price is starting to go up and I'm sure the future will cost $ 5- $ 10

Not at all long-term investment is profitable dude. especially if you're wrong in choosing a coin you'll use for long-term investments. let alone a lot of altcoins that have a short life span right ? so if you want to do long-term investments make sure you pick coins that have potential and the possibility to continue to grow and have a large community. for example maybe like bitcoin, ethereum, dash, waves, nxt, etc

I added xvg too for my long term investment and I still buy xvg if the price is down because of xvg, for now, it still cheap so I can buy a lot of xvg. besides that, I think we can do for another coin like cardano and other coins while the price still cheap. I think we need to take a serious to make a bigger profit for the long term. I think it is fine if we cannot buy an expensive coin because we have many coins that are cheap so we can buy and keep the coin until it's increased.

The 3 you have are fine but I would be adding some more for better long term profits. I like NEM as a long term hold but I would be also taking a few risk with some of the under 300 mill cap. Ones like PRL, LEND, DIM and POE all seem like they could go up huge amounts and have decent trading volumes. They are just a few suggestions off the top of my head but there's a lot more very similar potential.

All the choice you made are good they are not just good theyre excellect choice and also try doing invest on some altcoin like verge it has a big pump this week and also keep up the good work and do not forget to fo your research works

if you follow your choice, like what you said in your post i think you have a very good profit today. btw, i have my longterm coin DGB and XBY. for now its a quite good and have some profit for those coins i have.

For long term investment i rather lessen the distribution and my investment in case for those types are ETH and BTC or BTC and LTC/WAVES.
actually for alts i think it's good to buy super low but with too much potential because this is actually what a long term investment needed in order to give you better returns in the future. BTC is a sure profit if long term will be done.

In my opinion, your portfolio is so good. Those coins are top 20 biggest coin in the market which have the impressive development in 2017. So, choosing any coins in this list is still ok.

If you want a long term investment, why not invest in bitcoin? Bitcoin is very stable, reliable and tested already and lots of of investors became true millionaire already because of bitcoin.

Agree, diversification is good but don't put your eggs in many baskets but put all your eggs in a few baskets. Investing too much in different coins is really hard to manage, and don't forget don't invest what you don't know.

Already many become millionaire now it is consolidating at 16000$ so soon there is chance that the price of bitcoin will increase more value in this year, but there is no exact prediction how much it is going to increase the value.

I think adding a few more alts is good because diversification is good but don't add too many, i think 4 more alts is good for your portofolio. The coins you listed are good choices, just pick whatever you think will perform the best in the next 1-5 years and you are good to go.

 I think you should put %50 of your money to bitcoin. Because bitcoin keeps going up and up. And you should put other %50 of your money to altcoins such as ethereum, litecoin, waves, dash or any other. I put all my money to altcoins when bitcoin was going down but 1 month later I realized that if I would put only to bitcoin I would earn much more. For short term you can try altcoins.

I think you can hold.. TRX,Dent, ETH,LTC, NEM, Neo, Waves which i believe this coins are making it waves in the future be sure to get their wallets and save your private key. keep it private this are my precious coins

yes that's true because bitcoin will be able to make a profit if you want to invest long-term and ethereum just like bitcoin suitable for long-term investment

Decide wheter is good and bad for you. If you can wait a few months then invest in a nice new potential tokens like there, tron, xrp, ark, etn, eos. and etc.

Concentrating holding on those three coins are good that's less hassle on your part since you don't have to visit the exchanges from time to time to see the prize or chart. Holding is profitable. However if you really want to maximize profit you need to trade. The coins you have mention in the latter part are good too, they potentail to gain profit whether trading or holding.

It is time for very fast coins!
Xtrabytes
Raiblocks
COLX

Buy them and hodl for a year and you will not regret!

personally, I broke your capital on a number of cryptocurrency from ~40 promising coins for the long distance, you too , I think, need to look to the coins with good potential

Your strategy is good. I think you already had a good profit. In my long term investments, i have 40% BTC and 60% alts. In alts, 40% eth and others are neo, xrp, xmr, ltc and ven. But now i am interested with TNT and hope to invest in future.

I think splitting your money is a good idea, but the most part should be invested in top 10 coins. Anyway, I think that the cryptocurrency market will be growing much this year, so almost every coin will give a profit in a long term.

I think Long Term Investment is more profitable than short term trading based on my experience especially if you cannot always check your account or if you have a job to attend to. Take for example Ripple, I bought it last May for 20 cents. If only I held it not trade for 6 months up to now I should gain more profit than trade it.

If you are new to crypto and you want to do a long term investment, i would recommend that you invest in Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Stellar or Cardano. These coins are not too high in price yet, and still bring good profits.

With long-term investment, it is important whether development of tokens proceeds properly.
To that end, it is the developer's background.
People who have already had a decent career and continue to be active in the business world can not benefit from interrupting development and escape.

I also invest for the long term I choose Eth and waves to make in my investment.

Your portfolio is quite good for long term investment but i guess to more focus on this altcoin Ripple, Monero and NEO.

My long term investment is CLOAK (CloakCoin). Most top coins don't generate a cashlow through staking (POS) cashflow or kind of interest / dividends is very essential for a successful portfolio besides the gains in prices. Cloak give me a steady 6% easy income with lots of potential in price gains in 2018.

There are a lot of viable and worthy ICOs and alts currently in the market that would definitely have huge gains in the long term. Right now though, I'm betting on COSS, Genesis Vision, and CrowdGenie.

It's such a good time to be in crypto right now. Almost everything is on all time highs.

it's best to invest in little-known projects such as GUP, WINGS TRON, etc. there are not many of them, projects that will give the exhaust 10 times

You are doing the right thing! Ethereum is said to increase by 7folds in 2018. And as ethereum increase so also are the services created on it. One of the exceptional service on ethereum network is ALGORY.IO. ALGORY.IO is multifunctional trading tools for cryptocurrency trading. It's ICO ends on monday. Go get yours now!

I always support  Bitcoin as a Long term Investment.
But Some altcoin is Long term investment too.
I think Waves, ETH, NEO are good Altcoin and its a Long term Investment.

the author tries to play as safe as possible. it is quite a good strategy. i'd rather tried to gain as much information on altcoins and buy some of perspective coinsas well.

I really like Ether but I doubt it is a good idea for long term or not. I prefer not so popular coins for long term investment because they can multiply their value sometimes by 100X and sometimes more but Ether or Bitcoin cannot do that.

I think it is a good portfolio, and maybe you can make better that with ripple. Also, in my opinion, monero and IOTA are really promising coins for the future. Good luck!

Long tram investment is a one of the best investment for every person but most of the people think that quick money but it is a very ingenious for those people who want to quick earn money, still now some one put some altcoin so they must make a huge profit so it is better to invest long term.

Up till last month I was mostly doing short term trading but I've started to be a long term trader after seeing that the coins I've sold became at least 10X. I'm just buying and forgetting at the moment for at least 6 months period.

For long term investment PIVX still looks great. Masternodes, privacy and plan for DEX this year. Solid team and good community.

Market is really unstable now, so nobody will tell you trully wich altcoin makes you rich in future. Now it's look like roullette more and more with each day.

Consider looking into CoinMarketCap’s top coins. Coins are ranked with specific market details. This will give you a good idea as to what coins you would choose. Some of the alts you mentioned are quite good and are actually making some noise already. But it would be wise to make your own assessment first before picking. God bless you on your investment.

if I have to pick just one coin, I would put all my fund on neo, assured

It seems to me that a coin of the first ten can bring a very large profit in a few years. Crypto currency is just beginning to develop, so all coins have a great potential

Clear Poll now is in Cryptopia and price slowly increasing in next month if this will be listed to any higher exchange it can have very high price than now, i suggest u to follow this coin.

ETH is surely a great pick, NEO, Stratis and QTUM as well. If you are considering a pick that could get you higher returns, have a look at HOQU, it is a highly rated ICO with lots of potential: https://www.hoqu.io/?ref_id=0c1d51f3465bda51aac7f3016f84a20e (https://www.hoqu.io/?ref_id=0c1d51f3465bda51aac7f3016f84a20e)

I think investing some portion to alt coins is a good way to earn more in shorter term than 1-5 years, especially take a closer look at WAVES, NEO and XRP.

I'd personally advise you to be a little patient as all the altcoins went up (even BTC now) and you might want to wait for a dip before investing anything. The dip will come, it always comes, you just have to be patient.

I do not have the patience to wait for several years. Very often I do not wait for a big profit to sell coins. Then I regret it. Now I bought a few coins and I hope that I have enough patience. In my portfolio IOTA, ripple, Monero, Ether.

If you make a long-term investment, my sincere advice is to invest in Bitcoin, as its exchange rate will remain stable and unstable like altcoin. Because Bitcoin has a limit of only 21 million coin, its low exchange rate is unlikely to happen, the recent downturn has been due to Bitcoin having to deal with a lot of information. neglected and influenced by events like Christmas. But now Bitcoin rates have risen sharply to nearly $ 18,000.

ıf you are looking for a long term invest, you can evaluate etherum, iota, ripple and raiblocks , monetha and the cobinhood in my opinion

Guys what do you think of WAVES, I think they are great for a long term hold!

if you approach this issue in practice, then you really correctly say that investing in Bitcoin will bring a good profit, especially if you take into account all those forecasts that have been mentioned all the time about the prospects of bitcoin. But at the same time, from a practical point of view, everyone understands that the price for Bitcoin is overstated and unreasonable. There is an opinion that this is an air bubble and it can burst very quickly.

Better to keep those three you have initially started with and now start seeking for more potential alternative cryptocurrencies in which you can see that is beneficial for your part in a way that it is also good for long term holding and investment. Sticking yourself with those three only is like locking yourself in a room wherein you cannot see the wonder of the world. ;)

I've been holding it over a year. And no intention to sell them soon. Happy with the developments and the plans they are tyring to make happen.
But price is not that showing those when compare with the other IMO. Better do own research always though.