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Today I want to tell you some words about analytical factors. It’s very popular theme right now and i have some several interesting facts about crypto – investments. Learn how to invest in ICO without a high risk and unexpected expenses.

Before we start, I’d like you to read this text till the end and check if all the statements match the project you are looking to invest in. This will guide you step by step and help you to stay on track and avoid tricky situations which can accrue by cooperation with random people and companies.

• Check if the site uses the HTTPS protocol on its ICO site. If not, you can quite lawfully call this service into question, as your personal data can be easily transferred to the third parties. If the team didn’t bother themselves to set the SSL certificate, we can hardly speak about a security and safety of this site.

• Look through the website that you visit. How does it look like? Pay attention to the interface of their site. Remember that sites like these give programmers a task to make the greatest possible impression on the end user trough the look of their home page. Does it look like it was written honestly and not scrupulously? Are all contacts mentioned on the main resource in a whole size?

• Does the company give a possibility to read a leaflet of any kind of information? Are they described in details and give a reader the certain picture what the company is going to do in the near future? I can tell you the leaflets are one of the most important things in attracting foreign investors. Is the leaflet presented in several languages (like English, Spanish, German, French etc).  The leaflet has to explain a customer certain aspects of the business, like promotion, plan of economic growth and a defined explanation where will investors’ money go. The potential investor needs more facts about technical implementation and figures of potential income.

• How much money does the team want to collect? The most perspective and ingenious developers publish a leaflet, which contains a precise statistics of the possible outgoings and a resolution where collected money will be invested in. Nowadays some projects demand huge amounts exceptionally, just because of team’s desire to earn more instead of the real figures. Notice that large sum of money can hardly be spent rapidly — financials should mention the crypto they are going to use to keep the money safe, and far away from collapsing or being involved in another financial crisis.

• Keep an eye on the problem which the project wants to solve or the difficulties it overcomes in a daily life. It is important, because a perspective start-up should be realized and exploited for everyday needs. Will people from different countries invent in this too? When investing we should understand that the project must be both ambitious and marketable. It should be neither car on water nor a trivial boring messenger or a social network, especially in the times, when the market offers us so many variants and choices of such products. It would be nice if this device will contain both creativity with revolutionary ideas and a real benefit. The project has to be profitable on the part of consumers demand.  Highly recommended to search for projects which constantly upgrade their projects and make the work of crypto better and faster.

• Competitiveness is significant factor on the international market. Analysing the potential investment, look for any potential rivals with the same mission. At the moment there are not so many revolutionary products which can change people lives once and forever. The project should have at least 3-4 competitors. Generally, if this creation does not have any rivals to compete, in most cases the product is simply not required on the market, and, speaking from an economical side won’t be profitable and investment is not expedient.

• The plan of token –system based investment is technological and reliable enough, but the team has to have the accurate graphics where all these tokens will be spent. If the company uses token only as a method to attract investments, it should have a certain plan of how the tokens will be realized and how the investors can benefit and earn. It would be recomended if the project would consider tokens to be an integral part of its work and the team is plans to raise token value in the future. In the near perspective the advanced token system can become a good profit for investor.

• This factor is closely connected with the previous one. Check if developers are going to buy the tokens from a stock exchange after the end of the ICO to artificially overestimate the token rate.

• The rate of the token shouldn’t be overpriced. Do you know such thing as a “psychological growth potential”? In the case with tokens, I mean that it will be much easier for rate to rise from 1 dollar to 10 dollars, than from 10 dollars to 100. And I speak about the same progress coefficient and expansion almost 10 times.

• The next fact affects the topic of fundraising by developers (Hard Cap). It is rather important side as the sum which the team wants to collect determines their ambitions and further suggestions. If the max price is not mentioned, it can be a bad sign for future investors and the project itself. When the company gathers more money than it is estimated to spend, developers & influencers have no reason to improve the project further. A lack of motivation can lead to stagnation and degradation of the product you develop and make the project clumsy on the financial side. Remember the psychological growth potential too and the number of tokens – it shouldn’t be enormous.

• Look for the bonuses for investors on PRE-ICO. Are not they overpriced? Some projects use high – priced bonuses to attract investors and if you have managed to become such investor you can consider yourself to be lucky. On the other side, if PRE-ICO and ICO rates are significantly different, don’t invest. It can be easily explained that investors after getting tokens on sales immediately sell them on stock exchanges and token rate significantly drops. It makes investing in such projects inadvisable.

• How does the team of the project look like? Can you trust this people implicitly? Do they have an experience in realizing successful IT or crypto projects? In the perfect case there should be a balance between advanced programmers and progressive marketers. If there will be only programmers — the project can become unsuccessful and some problems with distribution and attracting investors may appear. If the team has mostly “merchants” it wouldn’t be very nice because development can become a long process and lead to minor program bugs.

• Does the project have any advisors or professional experts? An advice of experienced IT manager/ specialist will always be needed. Check the list of introduced advisors. Who are these people? Do they have any experience in crypto or IT? Do they have any skills in marketing and what products have they already sold? Does the set of advisors have successful projects behind them? Do they have a potential for further growth and what interesting can they offer to customers and developers? Too many questions.

• Does the project has its own prototype? If the team want to attract more investors, they will certainly develop prototype of their product considering all possible bugs and problems. Ultimately, the prototype has to take into account the interests and thinking of a user and investor. If the company has a minimum of viable products — it is the first sign to invest. It is better when the company has already created their successful product and they just want to integrate it with blockchain to expand business and enter new markets in crypto.

• Did the project go through technical and financial audits? Some companies attract independent audit agencies or experts in the field of information safety. It is often made for investors who want to be sure in security of project they invest to. In the third case the team can announce a compensation for those who will find a bug or vulnerability in program code. The results of such researches can be published or written in the leaflet after that.

• Is the program code available for all users and potential investors? It can be a good sign if the team shows transparency and reliability of their product. Is there any statistics of how many investors were attracted and how much money they raised? The greater will be the number of investors — the more likely the tokens will be distributed fairly and evenly, which will make the token rate less unstable after stock exchanges.

• Are venture companies and business angels interested in investing in such products? Is there any information about investments from major venture companies, if so, it means that this ICO-project has its future and people believe in its success.

• If the company has its leaflet and a roadmap, look through this roadmap and learn about future plans concerning the development of the product and the improvement of a financial component. Does the company and team have accurate and definite ambitions? How do they plan to increase the token rate and attract more users & possible investors? When they plan to achieve their first goals and in what terms?

• Continuing the roadmap topic — milestones. Milestone is the term that defines the control point in development of any project. Shift of a milestone leads to a shift of the whole project. Milestones can be useful tools in encouraging and improving the work of staff, especially if the tokens are paid to the team only after finishing missions and tasks set by the roadmap. Those tasks and missions have to be accurate not vague. It would be very useful if the token keepers would have a chance to vote if the stage on the roadmap has been completed or not. The alternative variant offers the company to keep tokens and investments in independent organizations, which will pay developers only after completing set missions. The more roadmap points are there — the less chance that workers will drop the token rate immediately by selling tokens on the stock.

• Media and the news background of the project. What’s the teams activity in social networks; do they have profiles on different ICO — related websites?  How do blockchain experts and advisors react to this product? What are the reviews from independent agencies? Is there a real hype round the project? All these factors are important as they denote media popularity and reputation among experts and possible investors.

Thank you for reading and I hope this guide will help you a bit.    


P.S. I had published this guide in to my steemit account as well, so here is link :

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@coingiraffe/how-to-invest-in-ico (https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@coingiraffe/how-to-invest-in-ico)

Thanks for sharing this article. I think its very helful for those who want to invest on ICO. It cover all the issue. Till now this is the best article I read.

ICO investment is not one of the easiest things to do especially with the fact that the ICOs are High risk and most of them turn out to be scams, to be safe however, one needs t do a thorough research on these ICOs eliminating all the possible doubts in the process, make sure that you are a apart of  legitimate project that has less chances of backfiring on you,  hats the only way, all the rest are left for chance

many people think that ico project is a scam because prices on the exchange market are cheaper than ico. they are interested in investing in an ico project with the hope of being able to make big profits in a short time, without wanting to know about the project being followed,

thanks for sharing such kind of post. this is very helpful for the newcomers. they are confused about those thing. i think after reading this article hopefully they can clarify their confusion.

This post is very helpful. maybe by looking at this post all members will understand how to join the ico project properly and avoid the ico scam project.

It is worth noting that all these points will not give 100% confidence in the success of the ICO. Never invest your last money.

Investments, this is what you can lose at any time

That's amazing. You have posted an important piece of information. This is going to help all the newbies who are thinking about investing in ICO. But a major concern here is to find a genuine project which will provide profit and not scammed.

Wow. That's interesting. It is a very good post for all the newbies who want to know about the metrics of investing in ICO. Currently, the alarming thing is the scammer's presence in this sector. Future of ICO is under threat because of scammers.

Very detailed and point to point explanation. Thanks for sharing. By the way, Beginners must know these things before participating any ICO. Otherwise there is a chance of getting scammed.

I think we all should just ICOs with these criterias before investing on them. A thorough research is a must need thing. We need to be very careful as there are lots of scams in the market.

I am strongly agree with the point that the price of token should be low. Expensive tokens often suffer to have a good growth. Other points are also important to do an analysis on a new ICO.

I have read a lot of articles and posts here in the forum regarding how to invest on an ICO and which steps to follow to not fall for a scam but none of them were as detailed and decorated as yours. Hopefully, you'll earn merit for this post as it would be very helpful for the people of our community who want to invest in ICOs but are afraid to do so due to recent news of scams and fraudelent activities in ICO industry.

There is no exact analysis that will tell you a project is 100% real so one have to only invest money that one is willing to lose into a ICO

There is no one way to know a good project I think it just better if one keep in mind to invest little or money one is willing to lose into project that one is convince about

Thanks alot for sharing a very helpful and detailed article

Easier said than done. I think although new investors can read all what you wrote in here but they still can't become a professional investors. LOL. It's not easy to become a professional investor by reading threads like this only :)). Anyway, thank you for sharing your experience :).

Thank you for sharing it very long and very useful for investing in my ICO projects.

Well, one just have to be extremely careful before investing on ico because, There is no exact analysis that will tell you a project is even 85% real so one have to only invest money that one is willing to lose into a ICO and watch it closely.

the most important thing in choosing a good ico to invest is ico who has good prospects in the future. in choosing ico we must really understand the ico that will be followed and see the prospect. can be seen from the supply of tokens that provided. it's important in order that we can get the benefit from it.

Today to invest in any ICO, this huge risk. New ICO appear in a week  too much(50-70). 75%  skam! What we talking About here ???

Very detailed and a lot of in depth analysis regarding an issue which has been making a lot of the investors to panic nowadays. Though, investors had thought of the ICOs to be a good profit making instuments but recently a lot of the ICOs are plain scams who are vanishing into thin air with investors money because of the unregulated nature of the space. Hopefully, the community will be helped from reading your analysis.

DO your research and pick out the ICOs you are planning to invest in. Take your time, usually with presales you want to wait when ICOs hit the exchange because for the people who are working with the company they already get a different price than the presales.

to invest in ico we must be able to choose the good ico in order that we can get the satisfactory results. there are several criteria for choosing ico well. the most important thing is that we must really understand the ico that will be followed because it's important.

I think this is an amazing writeup you have here, I will take much time to use the various criteria mentioned above to asses some ICOs in the cryptocurrency space to determine their validity. Thanks for this wonderful information.

I appreciate your efforts. It is really a helpful post for those who are new in this market. You tried to put all the major factors here. It’s really great.

Pretty interesting and informative article. I think these rules are respected by every experienced investor. Before investing your money you need to carefully check the project and then make a decision.

Thanks to share great article i learn alot from your very good informative post.

Very good read. Thanks for posting it, as I have recently noticed growing concern not only among the newbies but the old members who have got scammed by some fraudulent ICO. Very much detailed and foolproof plan you have mentioned. One more thing I would like to add is, checking how credible the team is, as that gives out a lot of indication regarding the ICO.

Thanks for elaborating the process in details. We must be very careful before investing on an ICO. The rate of scams in ICO are increasing day by day. With some preventive measures, we might be able to prevent the incidents of scam.

This is good advice. But I think that at this time it's not a good idea to invest in ICO, because there are so many scammers, and it's really difficult to find a good ICO.

Nice work indeed. It’s really a productive post. Those who have confusions to invest in ICO project can take advice from here. It seems all the major factors are here which are very much helpful to make decisions. Good job mate.

To do what you have written here is a completely different story. If you apply all the criteria you listed. It is difficult for you to choose a perfect ICO. Investing in ICOs is a risky investment choice, and it is essential to take the risk if you want to make a profit

A really good guide to start with for selecting the ICO but the ICO investment is not just limited to selecting a good ICO and there are still more things to look for for investing in one of the good ICOs, the amount and time of investment. Good ICOs too should be profitable in near future as the prime intention of investment is profit.

Awesome insights! If anyone is looking to invest in their first ICO Corl https://corl.io (https://corl.io) seems to check off all the things on the list.

These factors are very right for ico investment but most of them do not determine if it will be success or not, many investors don't even read the whitepaper.

If you are newbie don't invest in ICO on this bearish market! Save your money! Just analyze and observe what is happening - it is a great opportunity  to learn from other people's mistakes.

And that's what they will regret at some point, we can actually learn from our experience, at some point, it will help us to analyze what we must know before entering into any investments.

Safinus is a new and powerful platform, high security. Come to experience that. The project received a community rating that you should not ignore. Follow and join right away. Quickly hand own shares to own. Safinus.com

to invest in ico we must really understand the ico that will be followed in order that we can get the legit ico. need a good understanding to get the legit ico. the investors must have their own criteria to choosing an ico. if we can choose the good ico to invest then we will also get the satisfying results.

now when you need to be careful because many ICOs are not good and not suitable for investment because many are scam

That why you need to do carefully research before making any decision. This time is a hard time for the market, and even their team are real, you also need to evaluate that their team is strong enough to ensure the success of ICO.

You to have to first read the white paper and to check the site rating and roadmap. Watch out the scams because most ICOs are the scams.

Great article dude and thanks for taking the time. It’s incredibly helpful for al of us and All of us have to know details in which we are going to invest and how to do that. Your writing is really very good indeed.

Nice topics and very helpful post for those are interested to join and invest in ICO. Before investing carefully reading and understating this article will help to get clear over view.

If you’re a beginner then you should try to understand the whole market and its strategy. If you’re investing your money in an ICO, firstly you should know about the company very well. It can be a fraud too!

Does the company gives you a clear vision about their projects and profits? You should know about this. Take decision wisely just because you’re investing. Always have the knowledge of current market situation.It’ll help you.

I appreciate your curiosity towards this this behavior is actually needed for the market and as far I know it is not that difficult so if you try to gain all the updates then it will be more easy for you to understand it

if you want to Invest in ICO you should know how to make profit by this. that's why you should following this article. it will be a better guideline. I think it is more reliable and secure for investor. you are right you should justify before invest here.

You are absolutely right. investor should follow this guideline. ICO are more reliable and secure. If you want to invest here you should get knowledge and increase your skill. it will make your profit. thank you sharing this article.

and another important point is the progress of the ico project. that means we must always follow the progress of the project on social media, such as the telegram example. if there is a project development team that has not made an announcement regarding the project, and does not answer every question from the pre-participant, then it could be a project that is a scam.

You're right. Before investing in ICO, I think all of these instructions should be read. The investor must be well aware of the ICO. you should study and get knowledge. i think ICO are more profitable and secure for investor. Thank you for sharing.

I can't agree that most of ICO are scams, I think that maybe 10-15% are scams, but rest of the teams are trying to realize their projects. Another thing, when people find scam, they talk about it much more, then if they find just regular project. By the way, big thanks to author, this article is very helpful.

Thanx for your post, it's very complete and helpful, I hope lot a people will read this before invest in ICO. It's an easy way to evite some major risks !

Always invest money you can loose, not the money you need to live !  ;)

thanks for the informative post, very much useful and new learned.

I usually choose projects that have relatively high enough ratings in websites such as icobench or icorating.com... then again, I heard that admins or publishers of these sites can be bribed in exchange for good ratings. I even saw firsthand a post here in BCT selling reviews. disgusting...   :-[  Anyway, once Menlo One will launch, it will be much easier and we won't need to do as much research since it's going to be "an all in one" decentralized platform.. this means there no more bribes in exchange for ratings..  link to their site &Whitepaper: https://www.menlo.one/

You can choose project ico first, which you think is a good project. but be careful with scam projects lately. usually to invest you have to prepare eth or btc and some other altcoins that the project receives. to invest in ico you have to complete your kyc usually.

the first one, if you are currently on digital money, then the first time you are to create a bitcoin.co.id exchange account, this platform is an exchange / exchange of digital currency with the rupiah.
second, the next step is to create an account to send another ETH / cryptocurrency to the address of the company that held the ICO and also to receive the return token.
third, fill the platform balance according to the type of address they have.
fourth, Send another ETH or cryptocurrency to the address provided by the project that holds the ICO.
fifth, Especially for Myetherwallet use the gas limit in accordance with what is specified by the ICO project. This gas limit is the same as the transfer fee in Myetherwallet (MEW), usually the bigger the gas limit, the faster the transaction confirmation.
sixth, after transferring to another ETH / crypto address to the address of the project, the token we bought will be sent back to our address, to the address we used to send the ETH.
lastly, to find out the digital token has been sent to us, we can check the transaction history on myetherwallet / waves / orderbook (according to the platform we use).

such an informative post for newbie's. i want add something in short. first try to know about the ico properly, their history , people who work behind the project, and the project purpose. and try to participate bounty or signature campaign.

thanks for your guide. i have some confusion about invest on ICO. After reading your article i think i cleared my confusion, thank you again.

crypto investment is becoming very popular these days. So, many new people are coming to the exchange and they don't know how to invest in ico. Your guide will be very helpful for them specially. It also help me as i am new in this type of matter. So, Thank you very much.

i really like your article it help so much for me as a beginner, i hope you can post more article about investing in ICO
now i know how to invest in ICO, i have learned so much to this article thanks for sharing your idea and knowledge how to invest in crypto.

to invest in ICO, then I think there are some things you need to prepare. the most important is the capital. so you only half the capital investment only. and the rest for trading or other things that could produce well. The second one you have to learn to choose projects with really precise.

You have did a good way to share a little knowledge in investing ICO. At least investors should learn the several tips for analyzing ICO above. However, of course learning how to invest in ICO more complex and need much experience. If you know about investor group, you should join there. Get more knowledge and experience there. It should be helpful.

If you want to invest in ICO projects, you need to learn a lot about the projects. You need to stay away and do not get too involved in fraudulent schemes. If you are new, you need to make quick decisions.

easy actually to invest in ICO. As long as have the capital, and also want to invest certainly could've been investing. and it's also important for you to choose a good project. many find info how to choose a good project.

actually, we invest in an ico because we want to make a big profit. but if we can't choose ico properly then we won't get the ico like we want. we must learn to choose good ico with learning from our own experience. the more diligent we are to follow an ico, then we will know which ico that good to follow or not.

That’s very helpful article but need to reliable. Many newbie come to visit this forum for learning something like this. So this type of article should help them.

Newbie are show more interest to invest on ICO. Because from here anyone can be benefitted shortly. So there are many newcomers need to help about that. They can get some experience from here.

ICO is a platform where investor were invest . There are many investor in ICO. To be a investor in ICO first we have to know about the rules and regulations in ICO , then we have to understand the demand of the user ,then we know how to compete with other investor . At last its important to understand the market value and situation.

A very nice information you shared in this community.
i hope you continue doing such great things like this.
a long reading but very informative. i will take this as my guide.

A good article, but it is worth noting that investing in ICO now is quite risky. Investing in ICO was previously problematic because of the choice of a project that can survive, but now it has become even more difficult. It is worth thinking three times before deciding to invest in ICO.

This year it seems quite difficult to find profitable projects in terms of investment because most of the projects that appear at the moment are scam even if successful at the time of the ICO then when entering the exchange the price will definitely fall below the ICO price so investors get a loss.

Thank you for your good article, which is very helpful for me a newbie, let me fully understand how to invest in ico correctly. Thanks again.

Here in a few words can not explain. The best option is if you will enter the pool, but you should know well and trust the person who collects the pool. Pool discount is good

Dear sir,
I think that we can join to invest ICOs which we understand it more detail. It must be potential, It is developed and managed by strong team, high trust team. Let join to bounty of them if needed to know more. Finally, invest or not.

That’s' a great article, thank you for sharing it with us. It has such detail and covers all the questions people who are about to invest in ICO may ask. I will be sharing it among my friends.