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I have some bags to hold and wonder which of the coins I hold are still worth it to invest in and made decent progress in spite of the recent bear market or which of those projects did fall short on it's promises and are considered failed projects with little or no progress.

Below the projects I'm not so sure about with the grades I would give them at the moment, convince me otherwise and give your own grades, F for FAILED  ;).

VIBEHub (VIBE) D
Quantstamp (QSP) C
AppCoins (APPC) D
TenX (PAY) D
Stratis (STRAT) C
Request Network (REQ) B
Ubiq (UBQ) D
Substratum Network (SUB) F

Rebalancing portofolio is a good idea but i really don't want to give any advice which may lead to a lose. I will choose if i have money Ethereum now.

You've made the right decision on spreading your portfolio but am surprised that you did not include any of the top coins in the market which is a must. I don't know some of the coins in your list if they are worth keeping or what made you include them but if you did your research then you must believe that they are going to deliver.

I second this. I don't give investment advice but a lot of the coins on that list have a name I won't repeat. In my view, people should stick primarily with top-tier coins, because they fell about as hard as lower-ranked coins during the bear market. The really low-ranked coins may have a harder time recovering.

Request Network B?
REQ is dead already  :-[

I have some of the top coins with good gains but I don't question their validity, like with the coins I listed. I did initially the research on the coins I listed when I bought them but I'm not so sure about them now. I guess, in the mean time, in many cases there are better, similar projects with better progress...

You're doing the right thing, friend. However, I think that you should not hope for advice from other people on the issue of investment. You must conduct your own research of each coin and decide how to proceed.

I would take a look into bytom. Held strong during the bear market. There's also a big devcon they are setting up which I think will have some big progress as we move into the bull market imo

Use the current matket trend to reorganize your porfolio. For now IEO tokens are the latest trend you can maximize the opportunity to add them to your portfolio

I have other will know coins too, which I feel confident with. Those that I listed here are just the coins I'm not sure about anymore and if they are still worth it to invest in. I think there are many better options at the moment. With some of the listed coins I'm down more than 90%. 3 ways to play this... and here is what I did:  keep them and hope for the best (VIBE, APPC), sell them at a loss and be done with it (SUB) or double down and load up (REQ, Quantstamp).

Try to diversify your portfolio with lots of coins. In your project, quite a large part is occupied by projects whose tokens I would not buy. But everyone decides what to have)

The portfolio that you say is good too and in my opinion it's not the best, I still hold ethereum and bitcoin for now as for the other altcoins like TRON and NPXS

I thought that tenx is one good project but it started to became out of the noise in the community since the bear market. There were even articles that accused it was a scam.

https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/the-blocks-analyst-calls-out-tenx-as-a-scam-ten-months-and-no-product/
https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/01/13/controversial-tenx-responds-to-outrage-crypto-community-not-happy/
https://breakermag.com/all-the-reasons-to-be-skeptical-about-the-new-tenx-token/
https://www.ccn.com/80-million-ico-tenx-founder-linked-to-pyramid-scheme-report

Defo go for appcoins. They have huge increase in fundamentals. You can do some digging your self, so that I don't need to unnecessary shill the token. Still do it thou, coz I follow their development daily and love them.

To @OP, any updates now on your altcoins bag? Seems like they are really bloody, how are you now? Are you still holding despite of disaster on altcoins cause by Bitcoin's dominance?

Some of your holding based you said on the first posts seems they are still racing for their all time low, I am familiar on some altcoins you have

The following coins and tokens on your list are real projects, stratis and quantstamp are the best on the list but investing in this projects is a risk worth taking, you can add harmony and celer network they are not bad either, all of these altcoins are all affected by present market condition if not they will all do fine $

Let my just try to apply my own trick, the trick is diversification its really not bad if you have more than 10 different type of altcoins instead of worrying over five types of altcoins you holding for longterm, i have more than 10 altcoins i am holding and somehow i feel relaxed and comfortable

When I start investing in cryptocurrency I just focus in top crypto and until now most of my money are in the top crypto. I do not invest in some unknown project but for me you should focus in top crypto because all of them has more potential than other crypto. In all crypto that you mention I only have stratis and until now I keep it in my wallet and I do not have any idea when I can sell it.

now that a couple of months has passed from the time you created this supposed "portfolio" it is a good idea to now sit down and take a look at your mistakes.
generally speaking, bag holding altcoins has never ended well for anybody it  doesn't matter how "diversify" you make your bags, it is still a pretty terrible idea. as you have already experienced with your bag.

cut your losses and don't repeat the same mistakes again. that is the only way you can ever become successful in any market.

Sorry, from the altcoin list you mentioned above I don't know at all, but if you think it's worth keeping it then do it. I will only recommend you to invest in the top coins / altcoin in markets such as BTC, Eth, Eos, Bnb, and PPT. at least to minimize losses, given the market situation is weakening. so always update your portfolio, not with coins that are difficult to develop.

I don't think any of these coins are worth including in my portfolio, none of them are even in the top 20, at this point of time, we should only choose coins that are in the top 10 or 20, this is only my opinion, I am tired losing coins that are not in the top 20, investors should only invest in the top coins in the market, because of the top 10 coin's dominance in the market.

Promising coins are appearing every day, but only some of them are getting successful. Crypto is very unpredictable, because you can invest in 100 coins and only two or three will gain profit. I gave up on this promising investments and switched to main crypto currencies like BTC or ETH.

Investing is altcoins now is very risky, once the value keeps going down it will be a big loss to the project and the teams might just decide to exit to cut short the remain of what's left, its a different thing when it comes to bitcoin, the loss will only be on the investors neck and no one to exit even if it keeps going down, my advice is no where you put your money because many projects won't be around for years

If you did switched to BTC in the beginning of 2018 you are good. Switching to top ones from low cap coins is easy now because even the top ones are away from their ath. The good thing about this is that top coins have more liquidity - the bad thing is that top coins can't make you x1000 gains from this point.

here everyone chooses a strategy for themselves. if you don’t have much money, then I think that you can be riskier and invest in coins that are not in the top 100

I will only recommend you to place your money with Bitcoin. as we know that bitcoin is increasingly moving forward in terms of both price and project development. investing with altcoin is very risky, it will only make you lose if you put money in the wrong place.

But do not invest all the money in these coins, even though they are top the chance that they will still fall is, but as now is a good time to buy for the midterm.

I think you have to assess your portfolio and check individually the coins/tokens that you're holding and set specific conditions for you to decide whether you have let go of them or hodl them as I understand current price of these coins have been affected by the recent crypto market turmoil but it doesn't mean that these project's are dead! Do a reserach on them and decide it for yourself.

Now it’s too early to talk about it. the altcoin season has not even begun. when we will see a strong increase in prices for altcoins then it will be possible to understand which coins have died and turned out to be a wrong investment

Why don't you invest in the top altcoin which you already know? At least, you have a chance to see your investment will grow in the next bull run although your chosen altcoin can be potential too. But I think you need to wait for more to see your altcoin will bigger in the future. You can hope that in the next bull run, all of your coins can increase and give you a big profit. But that is up to you, and maybe you already analyze each coin, so you decide to invest in all those coins.

I was surprised you still have a hope for holding token from new comers. I remember when I hold token from CREDITS. Before bleed market that token are very strong. I hold them and my portofolio almost 10k USD. I expect too much from this token so I keep holding them until I lost 8000 USD. That was my big mistake because not doing cut loss.

Since you are the one holding those coins you should be the one to evaluate its performance in the market and how their platform is progressing, some of these coins are not even in the top 10, you have the options to sell it all and just concentrate on the top coins in the market, to avoid hustles like this.

If there's still patience inside OP's minds and he still wanted to keep holding and waiting for another possible bull to lift every asset that he holds or he should now need to deal with loses and accept that there's  already a need for assessing each project's directions and try to work with collecting more ideas inside the market.

Learning from how things went thru can be a good hint to make a good analyze and assessment dealing in surviving to this market.

If you focus only on the top 10 coins, then you are missing out on huge profits. investing in top 10 coins is a suitable strategy for you if you invest from 10-20 thousand dollars and more

It is far more superior to invest in small cap, thas has proven it's value and use case, than it is in top coins. Demand and use case usually ain't the thing that drives price up it's investors who invest in actual project, that have already finished project and established place in the worl. Lot's of people forget that btc is for alts, as gold is for stocks. That being said, I would rather invest in a 4mill project that can have huge ups than established top alt that tries to compete with btc. You have to remember that lot's of alts are fighting who will provide best tps and smart contracts, while in the shadows there are project that build their actual business and implements block chain to solve real case problems and provide smart utility.

I don't think so. Traders always prefer top altcoins instead of investing in another altcoins and l find top altcoins more profitable. As you above mentioned there is a lot of chance to get money with them in the future. It is openly obvious that it will take a long time to increase, but it will better for top altcoins like XRP, XLM and more. The HODL strategy will be the only way to gain from market price fluctuations. Regarding the portfolio balance, the experience of the traders are not the same and the chosen coins by the traders can be several tops or small volume altcoins. 

I'd like to ask what are the criteria for you picking out these coins?

Why don't you hold more of the strong coins that you can find in the top 10?

If I were you, I would swing trade those coins you listed and not use them as long hodl. But then again, what do I know? I did a swing trade of APPC between yesterday and today which gave me 37% profit