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Always bear in your mind if you invest in ICO today, "HOPE FOR THE BEST BUT ALWAYS PREPARE FOR WORST", to expect best result of your investment in ICO all the while being prepared  with options in case it is the worst one possible, there is a few investor  in ICO today being fooled, beacause  they don't prepare for the worst.

Investing is a high risk way of raising our money so we should be careful in investing especially in ICO, We should never invest anything that we cant completely afford to be gone like a bubble. Investing is just like gambling, we dont know if we will earn some or lose some, but if we do not try,, We will not have a chance of becoming rich.. So invest and invest those amount that you dont need.

They are only thinking to generate more and more generous profit anytime. In fact that the majority of new investors and new comers don't have a lot of knowledge about that.
but remember the majority of those are getting traped by the worst situation were newcomers

I think it's better do your best before the ICO and invest if you think it is solid project.

The ICO market is only at the beginning of its development. It's really a lot of scams on the market that doesn't have the tools to regulate. But time will put everything in its place. I believe that there will be promising projects that will bring more income when implemented than as a fraudulent scheme.

Well said most of the ICO investors still more than 10 times in loss . now original solution only will survive lots of false claiming and look good white paper doesnt work any more . Bearish market always vanish some useless tokens and Coins . More over investing with greed always leads to loss.

Many people who become successful on investing in ICO are those who have a strong trust on ICO with good positive mind on which they used a good ability and knowledge, because investing must used a good timing and having good patience by still holding if the price is at the lower level. Faith is a good idea that used on how to earn more income in crypto business.

But the current ICO market is not optimistic, as most of the ICO projects have fallen below their ico price.
So I don't think it's a good time to invest in ICO.

Lot of scam projects are available in the market so few projects only successfully survive in the market. I think it is too risky investment but few peoples are make good profit. First we must read the white paper and road map of the project then only we should identify the exact information of the Project. Finally we should analyse the right platform in ICO.

I believe most investors are actually fooled not because they did not prepare for the worst, but just because they are foolish. It is one thing to invest in a solid project with a great team and hoping for the best, and even if the worst happens, it is an investment but at least you made some due diligence to have prevented it.

On the other hand, those who are so gullible and naive, just always end up investing as a novice that they are when it comes to investment, and either ends up not doing some proper diligence only to end up investing in scams, and sometimes even gets greedy and invested what they could not afford to lose.

The ICO space in itself is risky since so far, there is no form of regulation, and not taking that into note as an investor is actually a very bad thing to do and makes such a person vulnerable to being screwed most of the time. In as much as we prepare for the worst, it should at least be something that has to do with some factors beyond our control and not something we could have been able to avert.

This is true because it is like blind trading where you do not know how it will end. ICO is good but you have to expect worst also.

Yes, investors are more and more, they come here rumored and think that almost any ICO will bring them profit, they do not even try to study the project. But in the end for most of them this is a great disappointment

Lmao
if they choose the right ICO , nothing to worry about it.
for example , how the hell u interest with fake , or scamming ico , whereas u can see good ICO on the other side

That is a fact. The thing is that majority of investors do not actually have any idea about investing and all they do is to just see a flash of a project that looks good and then invest in them. Even with the quality and legitimate ones, there is no guarantee they will end up successful, but the idea is for it to be a long term investment anyway without placing too much emotions into them.

If you are capable of managing to think like an investor, your decisions when investing will determine your reaction in the long run.

the advantages of ICO are enormous if the ICO they run is fully successful, but a few new whales are losing out due to lack of accuracy in choosing ICOs that really offer benefits. new users have no basis in choosing a good ICO because of their lack of knowledge, they can not blame anyone. they must be fully prepared if what they face is a loss.

This is true, unfortunately. Most of ICO where and will be simple money grabs. Nothing more.
I truly don't get it how people still think it is a good idea to invest, where time has shown that this is just another way of making a few people rich. Times when ICO's where profitable for the masses are long gone, this is all a train wrack now.
It is better to seek for already running, prosperous projects with good user-base and future ahead.
Hundreds of ico's have fallen and there is still a long list to go, I think it is best to focus on existing and well established ones.
Not to mention erc20... O boy, that's yet another story.

Yep altcoin and crypto itself is already very risky so why increase your risk even more? But on the other hand if you invest in an ico which manges to establish its project you can expect huge return of the money you invested

I think it is safer to make a calculated risk. It's better to rigorously go through your prospective investment material before committing yourself.

Most ICOs are generally fraudulent in my opinion. You'd be much better off investing in an establish alt coin, safer and one can still get great returns. though you could look at icos on NEO which generally tend to be of a higher quality, and have been performing well at least relative to ether icos

When you invest in ico you need to prepare to lose money, the risk of investing ico is very high because we only know the  products based on the whitepaper abd the team who promote it, so no matter how deep you do the research there is still chances the ico will went unpredictable so always prepare for the worst

Tell me how to prepare for the worst please.
If a token is -90% from its ICO price once it is distributed, what will you do?

The risks are great however well prepared you might be, so invest accordingly. But this is just the beginning of a changing world, and if we educate ourselves enough, do proper research and discover the true potential behind certain icos, using the guidelines given repeatedly regarding team, vision, tech, whitepaper etc., i think its going to be a truly exciting and successful journey to be present right from the beginning.

Indeed, many of the ICO that lately lots of popping. and it all sometimes there is a very large and there is a scam. the big risk is indeed always in front of the eyes, but if you choose the right analyses with ICO and various considerations I think the risk would be minimized.

I think you said it well, most people always go in all out toinvest in certain project because  the team promised heaven and earth, Tezo and DAO comes to mind, even there have been some other projects that have failed to delivered on hat was promised.

SO I will add this to it, never invest what you can't afford t lose and always remember to take out your initial capital to be able to fight another day

If someone is investing in ICOs today than he has to prepare for the worst as the chances of an ICO succeeding today is less than 10%. With more than 90% of the ICOs launched last year already having failed or exit scammed, I don't see how ICO investment is a fit option to choose. Also the future doesn't looks bright for the ICO market.

If that ICO still has a product, they should at least make a decision to do another development, reinvent or do some buyback or burn unused tokens to at least recover losses, contact devs on what they planned to do. They will sure have plan if that project have what it takes.

That applies to bitcoins and alt coins as well, most are investing with hopes of profit only. This is why some are gambling by taking loans as well which can be very risky.

Yeah, it is always a huge risk and every investment with the certain risk should always be considered first before even investing which is what a lot of people do not do and always get greedy or emotional. As long as you know it is not all company that would end up successful, then you will also know it is not all projects that would end up successful in the long run.

Nevertheless, this is different from investing in scams, as you would have yourself to blame if that happens, but the important thing is to not expect too much and at the same time expect too much. At the end, never get greedy, diversify to minimize the risk and always know you are investing in a solid project.

YES Investing in crypto currency especially during ICO is really risky so invest only what you can afford to lose and of course I wouldn't recommend you to owe money or loan in a bank just to invest. Be wise and select only the ICO project that you think it will succeed and grow bigger.

The right way is you need to forget the token for a while, until token price pump again, i hope you get what i'd like to say.

Investing is a high risk way of raising our money so we should be careful in investing especially in ICO, We should never invest anything that we cant completely afford to be gone like a bubble. Investing is just like gambling, we dont know if we will earn some or lose some, but if we do not try,, We will not have a chance of becoming rich.. So invest and invest those amount that you dont need.

Not that few investors only but there were many of it. This is why I never invested to an ICO because they can't fulfill their promises in the long run and besides supporting bitcoin with few alts that are legit in the circulation would be for the best. ICOs today are just money makers and including the investors it's hard to choose what will be the legit ones and the fake ones but even the most legit one with your first impression starts to become weird if you don't really have full knowledge on the developers.

This rule you can use when you investing in ICO, BTC, ETH and all other ways for investing.
Because no one can give you a guarantee that you money will be safety and growing.
But this is a reason why in investing you can earn more money - because a lot of risks, and people always want to pay for this.

I agree with you. Most investors of ICO always expecting the best for the project but when it gets dump in the market, they are ranting all over in social medias and creating FUD with the project. Some investors are very impatient with the platform's development and blaming the management when the price gets lower. I hope that those investors know what they are doing and what are those possible consequences when participating to an ICO. Cryptocurrency is very unpredictable.

You are right icos are high risk investments i have seen many projects whose value has dropped to more than 50% after listing on exchanges, although good projects recover but it may take time, so we have to select the best projects only while investing in icos.

 This is what I also imparted to my friend whom I influenced into investing in ICO. The very first thing I told them is the worst thing that can happen when investing in an ICO or even in coins already listed in the market. But really, ICOs today are so risky you have very small chance of not getting scammed or the ICO being a failure.

Good advice, the best is to realize all the risks you take investing your time and money, as you need to see the whole situation.

Of course you have to prepare for the worst that's why a lot of people say invest what you can afford to lose, because at worst you'll lose all your money, ico is a risky thing to do because they are not regulated so there's no investor protection. People have to understand how smartcontract works before invest in ico because I have seen a lot of people sending their eth from exchange wallet, that's just a basic mistake but the risk is very high.

Yes, you're right! I have participated in the two ICO for lack of serious investigation in the previous period. Now I feel reckless, like gambling!

From the replies here I feel that most of the people are having bad experience with ICOs. I have very good experience except my very first one. I have been investing in ICOs for long time now and I have seen great ROI in most of them. Low market now affecting people in a bad way, but even now if you chose good you are still good to gain. At this market you just need to investigate the project more than ever before. Not only the team, roadmap and whitepaper, but also token metrics. Everything is important there – hardcap, use of token, bonuses, lockup period etc. I will not invest if I don’t like any of the parameters

Agree, some investor dazzling with huge profit only, but in the end  they just freaked out, they lose their money for nothing.

Although ICO is a good way to make money, the risk of the same ICO is high.
Anyone needs to keep that in mind.

Ive been joining ICOs and there were many things I learned. I would ratger choose now to buy in an exchange than buying during ICO. I niriced tjat most coin dropa its value after being introduced in an exchange. I don't think wether its normal but I would aay that its not wise to do so cause youre just wasting time and funds.

ICO investment is no more for babies and newbie. you need to understand the risk involved before investing. the time has passed when ICO is alway rosy and you can make 2x,5x,10x. now a lot of factors have set in which include market volatility, usage etc. many ICO are now traded at price lower than the ICO price which means before you can make profit you need to keep your token for a long time provided the token does not become dumb or become obsolete. becuase of this some ico do lock their token for some period of time in order to stabilize the market.

I consider this to be the right action, because not only expectations of market stabilization, but also real growth of the project can be achieved by locking the token. if most companies did so, then the coin prices could be kept at the best level.

Hey guys I’m new in this group! Which ICOs do you follow? I’m currently excited about SciDex. Their project seems important for the science development,
There are many interesting projects going on. I’m keeping a close eye currently on SciDex. The team looks really solid and project seems extremely interesting. You should check out SciDex. Just discovered them yesterday and love what they do.

www.scidex.co
Telegram Group: https://t.me/SciDexOfficial

hi all - can you recommend any good ICO

One approach for evaluating ICO, which I consider more or less objective, is the verification of a smart contract
It must fulfill the following conditions:

1. The token for all stages of sales should be the same.
2. Written down conditions for early investors.
3. Prescribed the conditions for the team and the bounties in separate wallets.
4. Registered the upper and lower barriers preferably for each stage of sales
5. Registered a refund in case you do not reach the software.
6. Written down the escrow of the collected funds.
7. Written down the reservation of funds and phased release according to road map.
8. Be sure to put the code on the GitHub before the start of sales, and better lay out the bounty-bag for the contract.
9. Described the conditions that are being implemented with unsold tokens with exact terms.

If some of the items are not respected, then ask the founder about the reasons

What are you thinkin about this, guys?

I don't believe you have to be prepared to lose your money whenever you invest in icos.
You shouldn't just invest in any ico without doing thorough research and proper consultations.personally I don't invest in projects that are not endorsed by some reputable figures in the cryptoverse after I have done due diligence, If i do it feels I am just giving my money to some faceless random people.

I think this warning is really important. In addition to these, I can clearly say that, people should hope for the best but prepare for the best for also their all kind of bitcoin and altcoin investments too.

Prepare for the consequences also because you don't know who are you dealing with. Investing money in ICO is just like a gamble because there is no assurance if your money got stolen so you must be careful and study first the ICO before you invest and add more prayers. :)

Not Really, the bear is never in my mind when i invest either in ICO or an Established coin, it really doesn't matter what the bear does as its part of this market, There are more important factors to consider when dealing with ICOs like the project value and product being offered.

Not preparing for the worst in any investment is one of the reasons why people do not usually have a set out plan even before investing. However, to me, it is not even about expecting the worst; it is about trying to minimize the risk by investing in a quality ICO, but at the same time not investing what you cannot afford to lose.

That is always a smart way to go about any investment and even if the worst happens, you will know it must have been as a result of some factors beyond what one could have imagined, but would not shake you much since you did not get greedy in the first place.

this as learning even the worst thing we prepare, we must always be firm and always persevering never give up to make success. failure as learning.

Ir you're going to take the risks of course you must be prepared in every circumstances that may happen. Wether the ICO projects look promising but still you must be prepared for the worst scenarios. Everything has no happy ending but we wanted it, so better be careful if we really want a happy ending.

They not prepared for worst because they don't know how it works and it always happen to the novice investors because they dont gain knowledge about ico's because they just want to get money right away without any experience.

I agree with you here. I have earned healthy profits from my investments in ICOs through a long period of time and have incurred little to no losses. My biggest investment in recent times is Oyster Pearl(PRL) which has helped me earn huge profits in the short term thanks to its insane rise in value during the end of last year. The parameters which you suggested (Team, whitepaper, roadmap, hardcap or softcap etc) are vital factors which need to be researched carefully before deciding whether to invest into a particular ICO or not.

Yes I agree that investing in this market is very high-risk step but you will agree that it is impossible to raise your deposit for a year in 10 times anywhere. Therefore, people are at risk.

You invest in ICO projects, you easily find great profits in a short time. But to do that, you have to prepare all the knowledge and techniques. And especially you have to find out about potential projects that you join then you can win the purpose that you set out.

Obviously. Time will definitely put a lot of that in place from the way things are going with regulation and how even some exchanges are beginning to respond to those changes in listing any coin or token. The thing to always bear in mind is not even about the losses one can get from the ICO for now, it is about investing in quality ones and investing what you can afford to lose in them.

Going out of this would always set in some emotional decisions which every investor should always know how to work against. I mean sometimes, we do give our personal preferences on choosing the ICO rather than going along with some well defined way of filtering out.

this dickhead stole my account. I am bittick. DO not listen to any of this shit.

What I do when I invest in ICOs is to always expect that the coins will end up failing and I will end up losing all of my money and that way I am always prepared for the worst and whatever comes after. ICOs are a risky affair because you do not know if the coins will end up on any exchanges which means you would not be able to sell them and the coins will end up being useless

Always bear in mind that investing in an ICO is very risky. There is no 100% guarantee of good ROI, that's why you have to be prepared because not all ICO's ended successfully.  I suggest invest only what you can afford to lose and don't expect too much.

Sound advice right there which a lot of people would do well to take. These ICOs are a risky venture and anything can happen to the projects at any time. Before you invest you should first reconcile yourself with the fact that you could end up losing a good chunk of your money, or maybe even all of your money at that. They are not an exact science, there is a lot of risks involved in them.

I do completely agree with you. Generally you have to have a plan before making any step with your money. Calculate how much you are ready to lose, how much you want to gain and in what period of time and won`t be losing your head.

That's a good Advise. But I do not agree with you. I never ready to lose my investments. This mind makes me very serious while researching on icos and trading alts. Of course I use my risk capital for these investments. But that risk capital is also a capital. Its mine. and I do not ready to lose it.

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Thanks for your advice, some people think it is a banker that their investment in ICO will yield profit but it is not, the recent market has shown it that most of these ICOs would failed, EtherDelta token hs loss more than 90% of its ICO price, this is very disburbing because it is one of the best Decentralised exchange in the space

Most ICO projects in 2018 are difficult to earn after listing. Most are coins that will cost less than the price of the ICO. I do not think this year will be the year of ICO investment

Investment in ICO is riskier than trading or holding a crypto currency but if all goes well,it is most profitable. Hence never invest an amount you can't afford to lose.

Well said most of the ICO investors still more than 10 times in loss . now original solution only will survive lots of false claiming and look good white paper doesnt work any more . Bearish market always vanish some useless tokens and Coins . More over investing with greed always leads to loss.

It's always the worst plan to do before we invest in ICO, and I've been planning to lose everything before I invest in several ICO projects I choose, which is more risky than trading on the exchange and, of course, is likely to get huge profits.

Yes exactly even before I am investing I do lots of reasearch about project long term and short term
Potentiality and community as well as support level . If really coins goes down because of market trend I will buy some more . People not only prepared for worst also greed to get quick profit .

Yes. That's true. I think because of the fact that they put too much faith in their investment that they only think that there will always be gains in their investments. Not thinking that it might be the reverse. They might lose all of their investment because of the thinking. "I am sure that it will recover soon." That's why, being cautious is a crucial attribute an investor should have.

In this era where you you can pay companies to design everything from whitepaper to website. And pay review website to publish false ratings. I do feel ico' s would need to evolve and get better tho