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Hi  I am spending a ton of time reading, watching and asking questions to those who know.

But one question I have in mind is: Let's say you identify an altcoin you want to buy, let's say Tron..... Currently 2p a coin.

What would people normally spend on this coin? Obviously as many as you can in case it shoots up to £10 a coin... But just keen to understand how people think / buy.

Would you spend £20 or £100. Or does it depend on your overall goal short term or long term?

Any input welcome.   8)

That's your own decision to make, no one is going to tell you that TRON deserves 100$ from your pocket or NEO deserves 30$ from your pocket, after making sure the project is exactly where you want to be then you need to invest only what you can afford to lose because crypto investment is risky, either you plan to invest 10$ or 10,000$ make sure it's the amount you can afford to lose

Yes investing 101.

I can afford to lose more than $500 (not that I want to).

I was just curious how people view smaller altcoins around 5p - 10p.

You must have a clear mind with altcoins.

They are good for you to speculate or trade and not good for you to invest. With bull market you can earn more with altcoins but with bear market or corrections, you will lose more with altcoins. In long time, 2 to 4 years, you will lose with altcoins.

If you have interest in one altcoin, see the chart, if it is in a parabola rise, stay away from it and find another one.

How much money you want to spend with altcoins, it depends on how much money you wan to spend for crypto investment.

But as a crypto investors, you could not spend more than 20% or 30% of your capital for altcoins. 70% or 80% of your capital could be used for bitcoin.

For me, it all depends on the size of my portfolio. Somewhere back in late 2018/early 2019 I got rid of all the altcoins except ETH (I sold those altcoins at the loss but that proved as a good long term decision since  they sunk even more compared to BTC) and just a week ago I bought my first altcoins in the last couple of years. The way I decided how much to invest was simple: I set aside 5% of my portfolio (still keeping BTC in the 80-85% area) and decided to spread that amount evenly between few alts. Since I generally suck at trading and for me hodl works best, I invested in those that I think will perform good in the next 3-6 months.

Just remember, investing in altcoins is a huge gamble so you shouldn't overexpose yourself.

It's really up to you but you also need to consider your portfolio and as to the saying "don't put eggs in one basket" it's better for you to diversify. most of people usually invest in btc and eth then spread the rest to various alts.
Also, just spend what you can afford to lose as to not messing up your financial conditions.
I'm myself would prefer to invest only 20% or below if the coin is below top 10 by market cap but that's just my idea of investing in crypto

Hi thanks.
Your point about being below top ten by market cap, is that something you look for in an alt? Not top 10 market cap?

Still your choice to make friend, the reason why top 10 altcoins are are best for newbies is because they are more safer and reliable than other altcoins that are under top 10, for me I won't choose any projects that's under top 50 on coinmarketcap, do your won research and make a choice

And this is what matters in investment. How much you are able to lose and not cry blood  ;D Asking people to know how much to risk won't help your investment because you should your investing strength by yourself.

Check your possibility of profit with tron or the coin you want to invest. Check the maximum number or circulation of the coin because it can help the increase or decrease in price. Above it all, it is your decision to make too.

I had burnt my hands before in such types of coin, so not much looking into those coins. Do read and gather knowledge and then based on the analysis do invest in some of the coins which are steady or in the top of the list. Again, based o your investing style and risk ability the coins would differ accordingly.

Just make sure you can tell the difference between crappy projects and promising projects, it's why I will recommend top 10 projects for any newbies, the risks are pretty lower this way than investing on new projects, if you can't tell the difference start doing research

My contribution is that the OP should learn about cryptocurrencies in general before trying to buy altcoins, the value of altcoins can increase but that o likely the value start to reduce as fomo people bought it at high price, there are also many shitcoins in the market, the coins you will buy but remain almost stagnant or can reduce in price in the long run or even become dead. There are some coins that are subjected to pump and dump and price manipulation in a way people that have no experience about trading will finally lose more than they can possibly think until it happens. But, learning and having experience is a great tool to helping buying Altcoins in such a way to profiting such experienced people.

That will depend on how much money you are willing to spend because if you have $100, it will not be recommended if you use all of $100. It will better if you use only 20%-25% of the total money you have, so you can use it to invest in the other altcoins. But I see many people will go all-in on their money just because they hear that the coin price will increase two times from social media news. You don't have to do the same thing as them because that will be too risky for you, especially if you don't have more info about the coin.

Be careful to invest your money, and don't use too big money if you are not ready to lose the money if the market suddenly gets down. You need to prepare some money if the market is down so that you can buy back at a low price.

To make it short when I buy some Altcoin I first see the worth of it and the history of its recovery from the bearish market. It depends on how much I earn from other Altcoins when I buy again usually they are more than that. I won't hesitate to spend more especially when I already made some research and made some calculations. It rarely failed though, You just need to spend some time on it. To be honest, I also experience some ups and downs when I first started but now everything seems right just stick with the rules " Don't invest what you can't afford to lose".

It's not the type of coin that I want to buy as you give it as an example, I'll get to have it for choosing $20 or 20 euros. I'll choose something else which is better.
For my reference, it's just a short term coin to hold. For a long term goal to hold, there's something else better like Ethereum.

Personally, I have this strategy to invested initially at $100k, this is just me though.

Why $100? because that's the money that I can afford to lose in crypto. I'm sure you have heard this old adage before. And then I'll slowly re-invest if I have extra money and then hold for long term. This is just a basic strategy that you might use or you can make your own version out of it.

I usually don't trade though so I prefer long term hold and then portion by portion investment.

I would also suggest that you experiment yourself though, what fits your style of trading/investment.

If you are planning to hodl, youre a spot trader that buys a coin/token to hold and will sell for a target price. Any amount will do, try to compute your ROI.

If you are on futures that amount will give you good profit for starter.

You should by as much as you not afraid to loose. The golden rule of investment in general

It's all up to you myself, I advise you now to invest in Poolz coins, I monitor the poolz coins, the prices are very good and most likely the poolz coins will go up again in the future because the team is still developing the project.

The quantity of altcoins to buy is dependent on your available capital and the money you are able to invest. There is no limit to the amount of altcoin tokens that you are allowed to buy or invest in. Do your research, learn and invest an amount you are able to forgo

A good point on looking at the project. It's learning how to study and pick out what will be a successful project. So you think it helps to have a tech head on you... Or also listen to YT 'gurus'.... There's so bloody many of them... Majority of them are just good in front of the camera, can talk the lingo but very few are giving BROAD advice. About how markets as a whole function. When I start seeing people drawing lines all over graphs I switch off because it's all speculation to some degree?!

Any advice on studying projects and studying live data (on coinmarketcap etc)

There is undoubtedly a rule that you only need to invest in cryptocurrency as much as you can afford to lose. But in reality, the reality is completely different. Many people take risks by making deliberate or ill-considered investments. At least I am betting on Ethereum this year and in reality I am investing almost all my capital in Ethereum, which should double in value anyway by the end of 2021.

How big are the chances for an incoming alt season where values go up similar to 2017-2018 highs?

it is important for me in a coin how much it can grow, I try to buy and sell after a longer time. For a short time I try to trade more according to technical analysis and news.

That depends solely on one's own financial strategy and worth of the project in his eyes, for example if im very confident about a coin i will definitely want to buy as many as i can initially especially if i think that 10x potential is there.

Yeah right, such principle that will lead you to a better journey into this investment venue, as long as you are willing to spare your money you can easily move forward in-case things won't go according to what you percepts.


Most of the time, greed inside kills their investment, thinking that opportunity is knocking so instead of using spare money, in hope to earn much bigger money they'll just blindly invest in.


Good for you, ETH being next to Bitcoin already have solid foundations and wider supports, the chance of seeing more rise is expected
as developments still ongoing.

It depends on your capital amount of investment, Because mostly peoples are concentrate three kind of sectors,
1. Bitcoin
2. Altcoin
3. Stable coins.
So before to invest you must split your capital amount and plan for proper quantity of altcoins is the good option to buy.

Personally i am not a big investor so mostly i purchase only 100 dollars worth of coins if i really like the project and depending on my confidence on the project and team i do add more later because im a conservative investor and do not want to risk it all.

Altcoins bring profits and benefits both in terms of investment and trading. What matters is not the number of altcoins being bought, but at what price to buy. If the project is profitable and you feel that such an investment will bring you income, then naturally you buy more coins.

Kind of question that would really be having lots of possible answers into this because this will vary on someones financial capacity on how much they would really be buying on that point.
Also, not all buyers does like to buy more  would able to do so due to limited funds and some who do have money to spend or invest, they are the ones who had really be keen on
chosing which one he would really be investing.In the question on how much you would buy then it will depend into your risk management thing.If you do see that it has a potential
then would definitely buy more but if you are still on the doubt or hesitance side then you would really just limit out your spending and wait up for the moment.

The question is a bit ... meaningless in my opinion  ::).

If you have carefully studied the project in which you intend to invest, and if you are in confidence then it depends only on the means at your disposal.

A certain percentage of your overall portfolio is recommended, and it also depends on your trading plan, since in order to know where you are heading, you should determine at the time of purchase at which price you intend to take profit.

You alone are the judge :)

Basically the top altcoins will make the difference definitely becasue they have stayed proved. OP should go more to learning cryptocurrency because it seem he's still acting noobs. Also, there are some undervalued coins in coinmarketcap which could make anyone 2x or above for long term investment. In a small bag kindly hold some UNI and LINK for long-term.

It depends but if you get a new project of the calibre of ethereum and polkadot then buy with all your money but if you have some doubt and not hundred percent satisfied then you should be investing cautiously with small amount.

the more altcoins you buy, the richer you will be when the altcoin season arrives, we are already entering the bullish season,
so why worry about your capital? invest now and choose altcoins with a good background, from TA and fundamentals,
buy on correction, don't buy everything, buy gradually during correction and you will be safe.

It depends on the budget and trading goals, for the long term investing buying in large quantities will save the year. Otherwise, it is as same as gambling in the short term, even spending $20 on 2 cent altcoin is small considering how deadly the new projects can be after getting listed on big markets.

it depends on my goal of spending an altcoin, for me it doesn't have to be a large amount or a small amount because each altcoin has its own advantages. so I think spending according to budget needs and according to the risk of the altcoin itself