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Hi all,
the recent bloodbath pushed me to start investing in the crypto market. My current position is approx. 33% BTC/ETH/EOS. What would be your recommendation for a balanced crypto portfolio for the next 6-12 months?
Thanks!

These three coins will be the best potential coins in mid term investment so you should spiltting your investment in these coin you will make profit in future. But if you looking to some other coins you should pick top 10 cryptocurrencies because peoples are always investing in top trending coins and demand also high in the market so better top cryptocurrency will make profit.

BTC ETH and EOS are all solid investments but it depends on your goals. If you're looking for lower risk and more modest returns then stick to what you have. If you wanted more risk but potentially higher returns then try invest in some less well known alt coins. There are many with great ideas and low market caps. There are at least 5 infrastructure coins looking to compete with EOS that have a mere fragment of the market cap.

Without even attempting to give you an advice, I would severely push the ratio in favor of BTC. I personally hold little respect for both ETH and EOS, although they may hold their position or even rise in the time period you indicated. Ultimately, I don't think they will be able to hold in the long run.

That is really good move with the three coins as they are the perfect investment this year. I think you dont need to change anything in that and still you can earn lot of money out of them.

If you have enough dollars pouring into them then you can try to share some % of ETH and EOS into the coins like ADA, XMR, NEO and my favourite SCL. These coins should be next in the list if you ever want to allocate any % to next portfolio.

Bitcoin's ratio for overall stability of the portfolio will likely be somewhere around 50%. That being said, I wouldn't really go for both ETH and EOS with how things can turn pretty nasty for one of the two in the coming months. It's important for people to understand that in most similar cases, capital shifts occur rather than actual fresh capital flowing into coins.

If EOS ends up gaining momentum, and the majority of the upcoming ICO's will run on top of that platform instead of Ethereum, which is possible, then Ethereum will bleed for sure. What happens with your portfolio in this situation is that your EOS gains will be nullified by Ethereum's decline. Also don't forget that EOS holds +$4 billion (with the lower price probably closer to $3.5 billion) worth of Ether, which is pretty insane.

It's all up to people to decide what they will buy into and hold, but it's at least something to take into consideration.

Good point. Thank you!

I heard we are not yet in the dip. It is not advisable to assume that we are on it. Or else you will found your self trapped in a bear trap. Whales are having a hard time to crash BTC everytime it battle against resistance levels. Soon we might see BTC at $4k, then $3k.

funny you should ask. since i just broke it down for another user here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4474779.msg40179593#msg40179593 who claims he has made 80% profit but i showed him how he lost 354% profit.

basically it is like i always tell people: bitcoin for long term without thinking twice about it. then altcoins only for short term and for trading. you constantly trade altcoins while they get pumped and dumped and add the profit either to your bitcoin or fiat or both.

Keeping these coins for 6 months to 1year is a best portfolio allocation. To me I keep 50% of funds in Bitcoins and the rest is shared among top 3 coins that recently entered an exchange.

Just a tip: sell that shitcoin that is EOS as soon as possible. Read the reddit discussions below, then rethink if you actually want to invest in EOS or not.

EOS Centralization: Top 1.6% of Holders Own 90% of Supply (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8r1ejg/eos_centralization_top_16_of_holders_own_90_of/)
EOS block producer chat logs (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8ph0r9/eos_block_producer_chat_logs/)
Everything they don't want you to know about EOS (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8psqus/everything_they_dont_want_you_to_know_about_eos/)

You're very welcome.

Really it is just annoying that some altcoin are just worthless. They just occupy good position in cmc ranking but they are just shit as they can be and never turns into profit despite how long they have existed.

I think majority of your portfolio should be in Bitcoin. This is how most investors build their wealth and there's no secret that bitcoin is the best investment eventhough we are in a bear market. I'm still not totally sold on EOS though, I'm still not buying the hype around it, so you might want to look at how much you money you gonna put on it. There's a lot of question whether it can overtake Ethereum, well in the short run, perhaps, but I think that Ethereum will still be the main currency for ICO projects, so yes, I will also put Ethereum in my portfolio and just play around when EOS make a sudden price move.

I’d go up to 40%.

I’m not enthusiastic about EOS; It looks like Ripple, only suitable for high-risk investment in the short term. Replace it with Monero.
It does not matter how much you keep but how you control, deal with changes, and buy/sell at the right time.
The general division shall be 50% bitcoin, 30% eth, and 20% Monero. "This percentage changes based on the news."

Nothing, all meaningless during this bear trends. Wait for a reversal signal and see who is the strongest, for example last time, ethereum was demolishing bitcoin, probably the same will happen this time so I would go with ethereum but time will tell.

Aside from the obvious reason why we should have BTC and ETH on our portfolio, I will not recommend any altcoins or sort of how much is the distribution per coins since it's up on your own preference how will you choose. Just following others might wreck you on the way since we have different way on handling our own set of coins in our respective portfolios.

You now have your own and surely you just didn't created it without thinking and considering some factors.

Now, just trust your own analyzation and managed it properly on the way. We don't know what will happened in the future so it's really a must to check it out to ourselves if our plan will succeed.

Your spread is quite good, of course EOS and ETH are strong recommendations as they've shown significant strength even despite the collapsing market. I would recommend you slip a few newer, but still high potential coins into the mix, including some privacy coins (DeepOnion and Monero), some scaling coins such as Zilliqa and Quarkchain, and a couple more platform coins like NEO. Spreading your trades over only 3 coins doesn't give you the most opportunity, but it's always good to keep a significant fraction on Bitcoin, simply because it usually takes the least damage during the red times.

i have a long term ETH position that i will continue holding for long term capital gains tax rates.

but in general, i stay 100% BTC (for my crypto allocation) during bear markets. i like to wait until i see a nice accumulation base (on the weekly+ charts) in both BTC and across some alts before i start piling into alts again.

with very few exceptions (like newly launched coin hype), alts will bleed harder than BTC in a bear market. not a good time to hold from an investment perspective. swing trading is a different thing, although i'm generally avoiding alts entirely right now.

I understand the importance of not keeping all the eggs in one basket, but usually when bitcoin is falling, the altcoins fall even harder. So in the current market conditions, I think you should keep more in bitcoin, and less on the other alts. When you realize that the trend has changed, and money is flowing in again, then I would invest more on altcoins, because they usually increase more in % than BTC.

There is of course the opportunity for ICOs, that is a little riskier, but usually quite profitable even on a "bear market" like this one.

BTC-It is the King of crypto currency.Even a new investors,inverse in bitcoin blindly.Thwy will get profit at some raise.
ETH-We  know Ethereum is known as queen of crypto crypto currency.You can keep your money in this asset too
EOS- As like Ethereum,this coin had huge potential.If you had invested in any of this coins.It will be safest one .

I feel like an old man with only Bitcoin that I hodl, and that for a very long time. I don't even remember the last time I actually bought an altcoin, which some people will see as a missed opportunity with all projects available.

My basic principle is that I avoid that what doesn't catch my interest and understanding, and I think that's definitely the case when it comes to altcoins and tokens. Maybe because they don't offer much actual use.

The only altcoin that I would, and maybe might end up buying at some point, is Ethereum. Purely because of its first mover advantage that it maintains pretty firmly just like Bitcoin does. Nothing will be able to beat them.

I however am interested what part of the industry will experience a massive boom after Ethereum. Bitcoin is the digital equivalent of gold, where Ethereum serves as platform for all kinds of uses and DAPS.

Any people have an idea?

Exactly that although I would maybe put some in Decred also. Investing in top10 is very profitable in the long run.

6 to 12 months is a very short period, so I think you should just stick with bitcoin, if bitcoin go up a lot then some altcoins will fall in value terms relative to bitcoin but those same altcoins will rise relative to the dollar, for this you should see if your objective is to even hold those altcoins in order to have more bitcoins in the future or if you intend to hold those altcoins in order to have more dollars .. for example that bought lisk a few weeks ago for the price of 0.0015 satoshi should be crying at the moment, but if the bitcoin price goes up now then the lisk would rise in dollars but in bitcoin is another story.


The top 10 always changes


I would tell him to stay only with bitcoin

Ethereum definitely holds the dominant position in its space, but the only thing that worries me a bit is that it depends too much on ICO's. There might and probably will be a time where ICO's lose their shine, and when that happens it will be difficult to stay relevant in the way it is relevant right now. On top of that, altcoins mostly follow Bitcoin closely, which takes away the purpose of investing in anything already developed. The only difference is that altcoins tend to increase faster, but also decrease faster. It works both ways. The only thing that I can say is that people should definitely avoid investing in Litecoin with Bitcoin. If you invest in Litecoin then do it with fiat. Litecoin's Bitcoin ratio hasn't gone up since 2013....

Rule of thumb in trading any markets: Do not trade what you cannot afford to lose. So, it means it depends from one trader to another! Good luck fellas! May the odds be ever be in our favor!!

You have to think if EOS play their cards right they could kill of ETH if they really wanted to. If they can deliver they'll naturally start gaining ETH users as you said, on top of that if they time it right in terms of selling the 4bn or so worth of ETH that could greatly hurt the ETH price to the point of no recovery almost.

Yes it is rightly said that only invest what you do not require immediately in crypto markets or afford to lose the max. Another couple of things is that if you are weak heart person or cannot be patient then do not trade or invest in this market. Do invest in few coins and diversify rather than investing in a single coin.

It depends on the risks you want to take, your portfolio is decent and if you did that yourself then congratulations however since I'm a very conservative person when it comes to my investments I will put at least 50% in bitcoin this may seem too much for some people but it is necessary to keep that much invested at all times just in case bitcoin begins to skyrockets again.

Is that mean if you will add a portfolio will have 1% in your capital?
Binance has a bagys price movement, you can add it to your portfolio. If you look at 6-17 months apart will have a good price increase, I guess it fits with what you want.

depending on how much money you have if your capital is just enough to buy some better bet you bet on the EOS is relatively cheap and in the future some time will go up but what you plant that you produce depends on the capital you have.

Yeah, I didn't want to be that strict, but you are right. In fact, the only use for these pump and dump coins is to accumulate more BTC, but this requires some trading skills.

Yeah you can stay only with bitcoin as he indicated that he's going to hold it for 6-12 months which considers as a long term hold.
Bitcoin and Ethereum are good long term investments so I guess op has an idea on what he really is investing.
I wonder on how OP knew about these three coins, is this the result of his own research?

pretty much altcoin has potential and indeed for these three coins is the best, I think you do not need to change anything right now, even if you still have more money, you can add an investment here.

That's great, coins you choose will give you profit in long term period. I only suggest you also have back up fund to recovery your asset to face down trend. Always buy BTC/ETH as your asset because until now, they are crypto leader. Good luck to you.

You could pick up any coin from top20 on bearish market. I would advice to look at Stratis. It is pretty good now.

Portfolio cannot be set all the time same bro. If you want to invest on the good potential coins you always go to check the coinmarketcap.com and gather some details with in the historic changes in the price also completely bro.

My suggestion are here below which I believe good for investment long term so it would be good as op expected bro.
BTC
ETH
EOS
LTC
NEO
XMR
ZEC
IOTA

Nearly all of those are in the top 20, If you really want to experience explosive gains, you can't just play it safe and stick with tested coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The biggest gains are made by the coins with the smallest market caps, as they have a lot of gas left in the tank for growth. Take a look below the top 100 by market cap and you'll find some undervalued gems there.

Yes a lot of potentially good altcoins are there which can indeed give you a good profit, but the difficult job is that how to recognize such altcoin, specially if you are new in crypto trading. Actually it require a lot of experience and contacts to recognize a good place for your investment. I think if a person do not have any experience and find it difficult chose a best coin for investment, then he has two choices one is bitcoin and the 2nd is Etherium.

If you are having a difficulty on determining a coin that is profitable then you can actually look its history on the market or you can also invest on popular coins like ethereum , credits or ada which is guaranteed to give you profit after a few months.

Each one of us has a different strategy on investing so a particular investor could consider all of our recommendations. There are no bad suggestions at all so his choice will just depends on his preference. 

But if I were ask, I always go to Bitcoin and Ethereum with 50% allocation each.

I recommend for crypto allocation in ethereum and some bitcoins to stock up and for your long term trading. you better buy and have a coin now also while the price is very cheap.

BTC and ETH I agree if you will hold within 6-12 months, namu EOS I am not sure will give you an advantage. I'm suggesting to choose a Binance who is having a good popularity, and this will continue for the next few years. And lastly, recently I saw a lot of ICO's emerging and good to join so that the rest of your capital can be transferred to ICO project.

Pump and dump coins do not require skill, they either require luck that you invest in a coin before it is pumped by one of those groups out of luck and that you recognize what it is happening or that you somehow get access to privileged information about what coin the leaders of those groups are going to select to pump, just be careful because in some jurisdictions pump and dump groups are illegal.

My advice for allocating my password today is that you should buy cthereum copper and bitcoin in addition you should buy more TRON to invest in them, did you find it reasonable?

u should have balanced  crypto allocation and change the decision whenever the market is responding towards new price changes that is very important in volatility cryptocurrency market

I always buy eth,ltc or btc during the bull trends, you can easily check which one is the strongest and buy that one. I would personally invest in Vechain, definitely a serious coin, tons of partnerships and tons of good news all the time.

Good selections right there buddy. But a more mix of potential altcoins can also make the wallet more balanced and cool. Stack up some handful of NPXS too and you'd be glad you did.

There are so many combinations you can actually invest in in this market. That is why many people really have a hard time determining which coins or tokens to invest it, because actually, the sky is the limit here. However, one must consider which coin would actually bring forth good movement and command good support from the community. Usually, those coins that have better chances are born out of projects that hold a new concept, if not, show a big improvement from their predecessors.

I will do EOS 100% than spend much money on Ether and Bitcoin. Holding bitcoin and Ether are not profitable again unless trading with them.

you're right every user has a different strategy so it will make the allocation also different. the strategy is seen from your financial ability as well and your courage in taking risks. suppose if your money is big enough maybe you can also allocate funds to some other altcoin

I think all the coin you mentioned is a potential Coin in the future. it's up to you to trade or long-term investments. but I think the bitcoin for the long term without thinking twice about it, because the price of bitcoin is higher than altcoin. and I think altcoin we use for the short term and for daily trading. every day you have to work to trade altcoin as they go up and down, by looking at the state of the market. and it will add benefits to you.

As Warren Buffett once said “Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely” if you invested in bitcoin early what is the point to invest in a cryptocurrency that is nowhere near as good as bitcoin, what it is the point to diversify your investment at that point, if anything more money should go to bitcoin, all of those taking their chances with altcoins are doing it because they hope to get more bitcoin in return than the bitcoin they invested.

I recommend choosing the potential coin, choosing the top coin on CMC, such as BTC, ETH, Litecoin, BCH .... etc. These coins can be created for you. Profitable and more secure than other coins.

To balance in your business you should have a specific and reasonable allocation of your investments, you choose among them to invest and among them you should allocate the most appropriate rate you see.

I don't want to mention the coins, but it's like 45%, 45%, 5%, 5%. In the future I want to spread it out more. Just that I keep waiting for moon.

I don't think Equal suggestion is good,go with most of your investment into the king of crypto and invest on the potential coins for long term investments.I think 50% or more into the bitcoin is the good option because it is both suitable for long term and short term as well and most of the cryptos just depend on the bitcoin price so invest on it.Invest on ethereum if you are really going to hold it for long term or choose the coin with high growth percentage.

For this, as you said BloodBath, I decided to stick only with the Bitcoin, so I have sold all of my alternative cryptocurrencies and transferred all the money into Bitcoin. I think bitcoin is more stable than others buy now.

my recommendation crypto allocation is bitcoin, ethereum, ada, neo, litecoin, monero. I don't know about eos but maybe it will increase for 6-12 months later so you need to hold it for that time. besides those coins, I think you can check for iota, vechain, nem because I think this coin is a good coin also and have a potential to increase higher.

Pick the best 50 coins, and put 2% for each. Roughly.

That is it? Only 3 altcoins? Oh come on, you can do better. Monero,litecoin,ripple and a few other top tier altcoins are dirt cheap at the moment. If the price go back to their last ATH, then you can even be a millionaire, depending upon how much you invest. I don't make specific allocations, I keep a limit per coin rather. Like investing 0.05 BTC for one alt and 0.1BTC for another. Allocation, I don't care much. Just go with the wind. If you don't keep your portfolio diversely, get ready to get fucked up in the behind.

I think that you should continue to concentrate on the coin that does have a high market share and transaction volume. By having the coin then you will get comfort in investing and the opportunity to experience the loss will be much smaller. This is a form of choice and for me choosing a coin that is in the top 10 best coin can be a top choice.

You can see on this link: https://coinmarketcap.com/. By choosing a high marketcap then you open up the opportunity that the investment we have will grow and get closer that the coin will have an increased price in the future.

for sure bitcoin raised 6 months from now all holders they can got satisfied earnings using their patience
ethereum price follow to king to increase their value in the market
EOS potential also to increase their value at the market depends on the volume of the investors demands but I do not sure when comes up.

By chooce coins that in the ranking top 10 base on their market cap is much better because the higher market cap that mean the higher demand.  And if the demand high also that mean alof of investor and trader interesting with that coin. With bigger community also possible the demand increase continue.

which I can recommend cryptocurrency for your allocation better you buy bitcoin and ethereum just to be more secure because I see bitcoin and ethereum have a very strong platform and can provide a lot of benefits.

100% ether.

Markets behave in irrational ways, for a while. Your mind has a little hamster that runs furiously on its wheel attempting to rationalize the irrational behavior that you observe. The rationalization hamster produces bizarre theories like, "Bitcoin is a terrific store of value,"

On top of that, the price is a mood altering drug, it affects your perception of reality. Bitcoin price has gone down, so it seems sexy and attractive right now. Earlier in the year ether went up in price a lot, so it seemed sexy and attractive then. A rising price is influencing you on a subconscious, instinctual level. It is sending you a message that the herd is moving in that direction, and since you are a herd animal, you want to move with the herd.

Actually, if you want to make a lot of money, figure out where the herd will be a few years from now and go there today. Disclaimer: You may be eaten by predators and/or fail to reproduce if you follow this strategy.

Good luck, and have fun.

Actually you can invest a huge amount today, i mean you can focus all your capital into bitcoins or ethereum because the market is down to $5k dollars and you are guaranteed to earn a huge amount of profit when the market price goes back to normal.

That is terrible advice now you will need to watch 50 different coins and while some expert traders and investors can do that, that is not something your average investor should do, besides if your capital is small most of it is going to be eaten by the fees, if you want to do something like that at most you should invest 10% in 10 different coins.

Actually investing in different kinds of investment is a great thing
becaue you can be able to become flexible and will not depend on the performance of just one investment only.

But is it really worth to invest in so many coins? Most coins move together with bitcoin, if bitcoin skyrockets other coins do the same and when bitcoin crashes the rest of the market follows, if what you are looking is to have good profits but you do not necessary want your investment to skyrocket you could invest everything in bitcoin and forget about your coins for years until it reaches the price in which you are ready to sell.

I agree with you because 50 coins is too damn a headache and you'll just wake up one morning that you can't manage them all and because you can't, you didn't see that it already crashed. Just pick at least 5 that you think are good to have and with this you can focus all of them and see their movement. Having too many coins doesn't make you a real and good trader.

You could invest some money in top-10 and also try to find interesting project that will bring the solution of multi-transaction problem for example. Here is link to interesting project https://medium.com/@kelvinchain/the-post-quantum-era-of-blockchain-todays-solutions-for-the-world-of-tomorrow-16bdd970f49a (https://medium.com/@kelvinchain/the-post-quantum-era-of-blockchain-todays-solutions-for-the-world-of-tomorrow-16bdd970f49a)

For a newbie you already made a good decision.
I would recommend though to increase the amount with bitcoin. That is a sure shot there in my opinion unlike with EOS and Ethereum which have been fluctuating too much and we dont really know where it is coming from.

50/25/25 for me and I wont pick EOS. There is QTUM and AION which can gain more in just a year when all this red mark is over.

What it happens is that people have this romantic idea that in order to make money they need to watch the market all day and buy and sell coins like maniacs and most of the people that do that cannot maintain that lifestyle for long, not only because it is very stressing but also because it is very difficult to obtain profits that way, sometimes I have problems following all the news about bitcoin and I cannot imagine how difficult it will be to follow 49 additional coins.

I prefer that you have more coins in bitcoins more than altcoins because bitcoins price can skyrocket immediately while altcoins is always based on the developers marketing strategy or platform.

It's all up to people to decide what they will buy into and hold, but it's at least something to take into consideration.

Investing on ethereum coins is also profitable because it was the second currency that has actually a very good potential in the market so you can also invest on this coin that has the chance to replace bitcoins in the future.

XRP still has potential to continue bullish so its not late to buy it and hold a few month, and others crypto that can be promising high profit is ETH, ETC, XLM, BTC, WAVES, NANO, NEO, DASH, ZEC. Actually all mayor crypto will going up if bull market coming, and from historycal price of each crypto we can predict how high the price will go when ATH coming.

I like your current distribution. Good and promising coins. In my cryptocurrency portfolio these three coins are also available.

Follow me when you buy and hold BTC and ETH will be good for you. I am confident that you will be profitable by the end of this year. But for EOS I'm not very good at it, so you should not put too much money on EOS.

This is my allocation when I am investing in crypto for the long run.

Since I am a bitcoin hodler, I put most of my money into it. I put around half of my capital on it. 25% of my money will be going to the coin that is on the top 10 in market cap like ETH or EOS or XLM. 15% will go to the coins that are in top 11-50 in market cap and the remaining 10% will be going into the coins in top 51-100 in market cap.

What I buy depends on me but I'm holding ETN at this moment.

Bitcoin is the most simple choice in cryptocurrency investment. However, not everyone can wait for years. Some people really want to double their money as soon as possible. I don't really care about it. People comes here with different motives. In addition, one thing to be said, waiting is very boring. Moreover, we have to wait for years. Splitting investment is another option, and the way to earn profit.

I am not sure of what 33% you are talking about but that pretty good rate of distribution for the BTC and ETH. Not sure about the EOS really. I would really suggest putting some extra in the BTC really because we are now in the Q4 of this year and as always bitcoin will start getting invested more and more as the year ends. This is proven fact by every last month of year and this is not new. SEC will at least approve few of the ETF for sure and thats why we must be ready for the profits that will be generated by the more investors that will be entering the market. More focus on BTC and less over the ALTS.

You have a good coin in your wallet, and I think it's only waiting for the price to increase higher. But if you want to search another coin, then I guess you can choose the top twenty coinmarketcap, and I think you can find at least five coins so you can directly buy the coin. Maybe you can check ripple, cardano, xem, xlm, but the other coin has profitable too, so it's a bit difficult to determine the coin.

Very nice allocation of capital. I have a similar strategy and allocate according to the probability of benefit ratio that is allocate the maximum to the coins that can give away the most. And Bitcoin is the only coin that has been taking majority of my capital. ETH and ripple comes down in the list. They key to success here is to hold these assets for as long as possible for the addition of value in the long run is pretty much obvious.