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Hey guys, situation is ridiculous. Even top ICOs can’t make 2x when hitting an exchange. What is going on? Investing in ICOs was so profitable back in the days. Do you think it will be profitable again?

at present the ICO price is indeed not a good benchmark, because some coins fall very far from the ICO price when the coin enters the exchanger,
investing in a good ICO will still be profitable, but it definitely takes a long time

Another reason might be because they are pegged at higher prices when bitcoin was high, when they hit market after the crowdsale no doubt they will feel the pressure too. I have no doubt that ICO investment is still profitable just no moon this time, but once bitcoin is up again it will create a domino effect in the market.

The entire cryptocurrency market has been hammered with a 80% average fall from their highs in the last 9 months and are now trading along a bottom and you expect to more than doulble your money overnight on an ICO? Sorry, but expecting to double your money on an ICO as soon as it lists is unrealistic and if you are asking will things return to the hyped up days of 2017 the short answer is no.

Back in those days lol (just last year). Yes, it was profitable before but you have to consider the market situation. This is year is different wherein if a new coin/token got listed you have to expect like more or less 50% down on its ICO price. But there are some who succeeded even in bloody days like CHT(clearing house token), I don't know what they did but they did a great job.

With this market condition, ICO investing has too many risks. The market condition is not the only reason to dump ICO price. Because most ICO projects are cheating investors. They are collecting a large number of funds and funds and listing small exchanges. Small exchanges cannot give enough return on investment to investors. Another reason is people are not going invest ICO project with this scam ICOs. The reasons are depend on a person by person.

ICO model has not justified itself as we can observe the last months. and unfortunately there will be no repetition of 2017. therefore, there should be another model of attracting money.

It will definitely be profitable, but not this(maybe next) year. It will be profiitable only when the  entire market go up

Before when the coins were going 2x - 5x after getting out of ICOs was because the scam was too less and good projects were only launching their ICOs. But now everyone is launching their ICOs without any proper plan and 90% of them end scamming and run away with the money. So people are scared of investing in the ICOs in fear of scam so ICOs do not get investments so those who get free coins in the form of Airdrops and Bounty sell their coins for the cheap price and because of this price goes down.

ICO using smart token from ethereum and we know that ethereum right now cannot stay in $500 and even it reached in less than $200. So it gives impact to ICO, and they cannot reach success like the last year. Besides that, we read that many ICO runs away and not finished their project because they are not getting many investors to invest in their project. In the future, there will be a new model like ICO that will give us a profit like before, and it will happen soon after the market recover.

I think the bonus dumped by investors is something that affects and bounty hunters who panic and immediately sell their reward. Their product average is also not fully launched and the situation will not affect the increase in demand for tokens. So the price will not exceed the price of ico, unless they pump it.

Yeah last year almost every ico reach their hardcap or at least half of it or softcap. But now most of icos don't reach softcap. I think investors are afraid of losing money. Cause last few months most of the icos don't give any profit when they hit the exchange even after 3-4 months they are belong to half price of icos. There is many problem one of them is the whole market is down so the icos are. Icos give a lots of bonus on presale or private sales that is one of the main problem. And people are afraid of scam project or failed project. But in this down market few good icos give profit even 3-4x. After invest follow and research on the project for some time.

this is because people are getting wiser.  and project developers are getting more greedy.  more and more people now are doing more research before investing, while project developers are pricing their coins/tokens higher and higher, or issuing more and more coins/tokens.  easy money was a thing only during 2017.

ICOs are in need of regulation, until that happens there will be no more hype in that industry. Private funding for crypto projects make the most sense.

The first reason is bounty hunters will sell tokens they recieved from airdrop and bounty programs.
The second reason is whales want to buy more to control the price of tokens later.

ICO will always be beneficial, provided we wait patiently, because most likely every ICO has advantages not as fast as last year we have to wait with a time that cannot be specified

impatience for the bounty hunter to immediately release it without holding it first, which results in a decrease in the altcoin price which is far from the ICO price,

i think because of the sudden down of the market, many including coins that are connected to btc, BTC has a huge impact in cryptocurrecny, and number 1 in cryptomarket, i think thats the reason.

I am sure there is bounty hunter no reason of this falls, many projects which haven't paid yet to hunters already trades under ico price

I think if that ICO really offer a good product/Brilliant Idea,  it just easy for them to make 2 until 5 x when hitting an exchange. Example : zilliqa. Its the ICO in 2018.




I dont think its all the bounty hunter fault. Investor already invest their money for 3-6 months before the coin/token got listed on the exchanger. You can try to research first cause bounty allocation only 1 % and some of them got locked 3 months after hitting the exchange and the price still going down. The right answer is the investor right now still watching the market. cause the market condition is not good at the moment.

My opinion its developers sell their token himself and on listing sell tokens and dump price.
Its hard to believe what investors allways sell buyed tokens cheaper

It's always been from project to project basis, there will always an exception through all of this scenario, some ICO that slide down during their first week on the exchange are now gaining ground, not profitable back then but there are still an exceptions.

Yes, the fact that coins are constantly decreasing is partly due to bounty hunters, so I think there should be measures for these hunters to lock their tokens within a few months. Wait for the price to stabilize then open it. That is in my opinion.

In this state of market, I think almost tokens are impossible to x2. Honestly, it is not dump after hitting exchange is a good news for holders at all. We have to wait more for profitable investments.

I think change is coming soon to combat this fraudulent ICOs. Investors can't take this anymore, losing their money to scammers. We just have to wait for some time and observe the movement of the market.

Continuous price fluctuations has made sad to the entire crypto community as the value is dropping everyday. Moreover the bounties too not give good return as expected. A bull run will solve all the issues I guess. Let's wait and see how the market will be in upcoming days.

Yes, many investors who have invested in ico projects suffer losses this year. Even those top projects that collected hardcap are below ico prices after listing on the exchange. They are trying to add a lot of exchanges but the situation does not change or changes for the worse. No one knows where the cryptocurrency market will turn and whether these investors will turn out to be profitable in a year or more.

Major declining in cryptocurrency occur in the last few months, For the increasing of all those coins would take some time before it could reach it's previous level. I hope it will be started soon, perhaps at the end of this year.

The success of any ICOs is detected by the price of the leading coin which is bitcoin, the more it pumps the more the success of the ICOs with reference to last year pump in the price of bitcoin many ICOs  reached even their Hard cap having been riding on btc reaching ATH however reverse is the case this year due to the bears controlling the market.

As you well know, the market is currently unstable. The ICO has done what it can. The rest seems to depend on the big investors, who are keeping a large amount of coin. They are the "sharks" of that ICO.
So, the ICO is hardly going to retain its value. Do not expect them to pump, unless there have miracles.

The main reason is that the market is dropping causing all ICO to be dumped. All ICOs have been dumped at the exchange, and the dumping has been heavy, with prices falling about 3-10 times that of the ICO. And investing in ICOs is certainly not profitable at this time

what I learned from all this, I think the dev is only hard at making the price according to the ICO based on the products they make. well, they don't have complete control of the market, and the prices of their products. so far, I think the thing that makes the coins they make having high prices is the quality of the products they produce.

Even though some ico have succeeded in reaching hardcap but after entering the market no one can keep prices from falling.
I did not find ico who managed to maintain his position in cmc. I think Iico must have new rules.

This year's ICO market is different from last year. Due to the reduction of investors, the purchasing power of tokens is obviously insufficient when entering the exchange, which also causes many new tokens to be lower than ICO!

Currently ico due to the number of investors less than last year so much should occur dumping and their prices are not as high as expected, I feel now invest ico high risk ratio. I hope that the market will overcome as soon as previous years

I think the future is there, we just need to get out of the falling trend. No one wants to invest when the whole market slides down. Because only rare projects are shot.

Most times the prices goes low as a result of the dumping actives of individuals mostly bounty hunter on the project hitting exchange. Most investors hold their coin but are frustrated by the activities of dumpers

The reason why token got very low value when it hit the exchange is the fact that most of ICOs are launched when the value of ETH is in it's all time high and when the token hit the exchange the value of eth is $200-300.
Example:
Launching
Jan-Mar, price of token in eth is 0.00002, value in USD = $0.024
Exchange
Sept-Oct, price of token in eth is 0.00002, value in USD = $.006

Yes. I think that will be profitable again next year. If we look very far past differences with current conditions. Especially regarding the benefits at the time of exchange.

I recently heard that the ICO run is not yet over, infact it is still in it's infant stages, the days of ICO profitability would return and it will do that with a bang!.

investment in ico now remains profitable except that it must be smart to choose good and potential ico. Currently, ICC will still continue and maybe this will be one of the options for investors to continue to choose Iico and not worry about Iico.

maybe the ICO situation will be like this, because the increasing number of ICOs that emerge and the severity of the current market conditions that greatly affect all the price of coins, making the price of ICO coins in the exchange is not good and hopefully in the future this condition can change for the better.

Not only one ICO, but every ICO is facing the same situation in the market because after listing people will start trading buying and selling the coins. So the price will start increasing when we see active developments in the market.

I think, the situation in 2017 was also a bit ridiculous, but surely better for investors, than what's going on now. I think it would be correct to be in the "middle", and in the next bull market, that is going to happen, good ICOs making profit to investors again, while not many people put money to a bad project, as people learn, and develop.

At present, it has passed the peak period of ICO investment. Now is the time to return to value. In addition, the market has been in a doldrums. Large capital investment has been withdrawn from encryption. So this time will be very difficult. At present, encryption will take some time to wait for the market to recover.

I think it is very difficult for it to have profit now, the market is now up and down erratically, you should not invest in ICO projects now, you should learn to trade. I think so!.

It is very difficult to develop for a project because situation is difficult to control. ICO developers are very difficult to manage their projects that have an impact on investors. The market situation is unstable, to get more profits investing in ICO is difficult to achieve even it's the best project. Maybe if the situation has improved, ICO will bright again