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I see and observe recently that many ICOs are below the ICO price when they touch the exchange. Do you think it's a smart step to wait for an exchange and buy the tokens you want?

Either you buy on ico
Or you buy after listing on exchanges it does not stop you from buying a fake project

What matters is the product
Hence do your own research

Its true a lots of ICOs are scam.I my self scammed by ICOs many times, all i learn never believe on those posts who are giving you extra advantages and benefits.They're all scam and waiting for you money.

Recently it did not become favorable to buy tokens on ico. After entry into the exchange all of them equally go down in price. So it is possible to wait for an exit and to buy at lower price.

I missed buy some tokens because it is scary my to lose my money but i don’t get x5 my investment.

I agree, if you invest in ico, you will lose a lot of money but not all ico is bad. You must be selective in choosing a project. Currently, it's better to invest after listing tokens.

If you buy at ICO sale you can get bonus which can help you to make more money than the capital invested even if the token price fell below the ICO rate but if the price fell too much you invested on the wrong worthless project so it is your fault and when buy at the exchange after listed it will remove lot of risk like scam ICO but you will get less profits than the ICO sale.

He agrees, after transfer you will have at least some confidence that the project real. Many fakes do not even come to the exchanges. It obarzy investing after carrying out ico it is possible to save the money.
But there are also good projects, them it is visible at once. In such it is better to invest at ico stage. Because after an exit you can not buy already at low price tokens.

Not usually right, sometime the price of the token is much cheaper when it's first listed on the exchange site because the demand is not too high and the supply is already too much circulating.
Because of that you need to decide when is the right time to buy. But the main point is the price of the token will depend on the how that ico build the hype.

in my opinion it depends on your strategy and the risks you want to take. some people are taking bigger risks since they are gamblers and invest in ICOs directly but most people want to be more cautious and have something as the base of their speculation before they invest so they wait for the coins to be on the exchanges and they wait for them to have some history at least and show some signs before jumping on board or staying away.

when it comes to making profit from pump and dump tokens then everything you think you know goes out of the window. there is no product and research or anything else like that. there is only a pump and a dump and also the ability of you to detect them and whether you are capable of making profit or not.

when the token is listed it becomes possible to detect the pump but before that it is impossible to know whether their pumping team succeeds or gets crushed under the dumping of hundreds of bag holders.

I prefer to buy when they are newly listed on the market. than buying at ICO, even though when ICO we can get a bonus. but it's much cheaper if we buy when newly listed in the market. maybe if you're lucky, you can buy at a price of 10% of the ICO price.

yes, i am complestely agree. i will do it also, buy when it is first listed in exchange. because i think it is a good way to know that tokens can be trade just in case. and to know that the project is not scam.

Under current conditions it is not meaningful to buy during ICO (I don't even participate in pre-sale phases). I sometimes choose projects very shortly after their introduction to exchanges - there is still possibility to make some short term profit.

If this ICO is very hot, you can not buy with ICO price when list on exchange. You can wait and buy at dip when they sell token.

ICO is a predefined investment so we should check the OP post then analyse the right project. So we can confirm the good project surely we will earn decent profit. But after listing the exchanges many peoples sell continuously so we will never expect it will be good investment. Presale and private sale is the right time for investment but we must pick carefully otherwise our total investment will going to dustbin.

If the ICO based the price on ETH that falling right now. For example they said 1ETH=$500 worth 5000 token but ETH right now is falling under $200 and if they released it on exchange then the price will surely drop.  This is the right choice to buy when we see it on exchange under a low value ETH price.

I think that will depend on your preference wherein you want to be very sure on your investment, you may buy altcoins that are in the exchanged. However, if you had made a thorough  research of a certain ICO, then invest in ICO since price is low and yet once it will be on the exchange sites, usually ICO tokens becomes better and most of it were increasing.

It is theoretically more advantageous, of course, to buy during ico. But much more risky. And We must very carefully choose the project.
after implementation, it is better to see whether the project is worthwhile, whether it has prospects. Although here nothing prevents him in one day spoil and the abyss
I bought coins only on the stock exchange)

With the latest ICOs I can prefer more to buy after a project is listed on an exchange. Most of the project are dumped when they are list on a (de)centralized exchange.

 I prefer to buy after the exchange as after ico the coin goes down at the lowest price its better to buy and then they will grow as the coin gets good administration and increase in the volume and trading it will make a good profits to us, some of the ICO are scam so its better be alert and invest as they get vanished in a night and we just lose our money.

What is clear is that I choose to buy when I enter the exchanger, because when I enter the exchanger we can find out how the token or coin stays in the market if it is strong, obviously we will benefit. I prefer to buy when on the market

As a general rule, if the ICO offers a big bounty share, don't ever think about buying it in ICO. The token will be dumped by bounty hunters the moment it hits exchange. So if you somehow believe in the ICO (which is a rare case, I can't see any reason to buy an ICO token), wait for it to get to an exchange, then buy after the dumping session finished. You will get it with a huge discount.

A very topical issue, especially in the last few months, because many projects simply can not collect anything, this is definitely related to the ICO industry because very many projects are actually scammers who have already collected a lot of money.

i would say if your really interested on a token.
just check if the ICO offers so much discounts.
and if they will distribute the token together along with the hunters.
this thing could impact the initial token value when it hits the exchange.
when you eliminate those things, you could probably join the ICO.
and one more thing, check out where exchange they wanted to get listed.
when the exchange has a decent volume that would be wonderful.

It may be true for some coins, but if you're worried having lower price after ICO, well you should definitely do your research. If you believe on their project, then go for it during ICO, but why not also try coins in exchange. So far, the market is performing well.

In my opinion, both buying in ICO and exchange has its sides.

1. Buying in ICO
You will get the clear and exact price of the tokens or coins. additionally, you will also get some bonuses. The important thing is that when the ICO project is very promising and good projects for the future, it is better to buy them in ICO as long as you can avoid the scam. It can help the ICO project to reach softcap and the token or coin with the good project can be on the exchange exactly. But of course, never think to sell them after ready on exchange because ICO coin is very potential for long term holding.

2. Buying on Exchange
This way is the very safe ways to avoid the scam projects. The tokens and coins already on the exchange are the legit one and you can buy them after exchange with the low price. Why? Sometimes, many bounty hunters sell their coins with the price under the ICO price, SO, it will give you more opportunities.

Right now it is pointless to partisipate in ICOs. Almost all coins go under ICO price after entering the market and are floating there without signs of life. So, it is more profitable to buy them from exchange than during ICO.
But it is important to keep an eye on upcoming ICO in case some potentially interesting project will show up. But now more than ever, projects for investment need to be selected with extreme caution and care. After all, it is better not to earn additional money than to lose them.

I think it's better to buy after the token appears on the exchangers. The fact is that the price will drop out of the Bounty hunters...

There is much bigger loss-scammed ratio than real bonus offers, if you take for example 100 ICOs. You must be extra careful when choosing ICO. But there are some that hit a lot of X when launch on exchange, so if you know what to look, you should be fine!

Decisions as this varies depending on the levels of research you indulge yourself in
Some icos tokens are good for purchase during ico
While some ico tokens are good for purchase after listed on exchange

Either ways you choose depends on the information you have

While its smart to just buy one exchanges because when that happens you need not to worry whether the project can be a scam. Price of the token also become cheaper which means you save yourself from getting stress thinking you loss some money.

There is a good thing why you might want to buy during ICO though. First there are bonuses when buying in ICO which some goes up to 25%. And at the same time, Investors receive the token the first which means when the token gets listed, yo have the opportunity to dump the first while the price is much higher. You hit it big time because you already gain 25% bonus and you buy back at the cheaper price when bounty hunters dump what they got. These are the positive sides.

yes, i think it could be profitable, but not all the time (if the price will decrease over time and you hold too long)

if everybody will think that they will buyafter ico, project will not raise money. tha no project exchages and no profit.

I also have the same thought like you. After some times I bought some tokens from ICO, my capital is decreased so much, although that projects is so good but it continuous go down, be much lower than ICO's price

maybe both should be considered because both of them could make a loss when investing because they made a mistake during the analysis. so in my opinion it's better to learn how to analyze before you buy and invest in crypto

If that particular ICO which you want to participate is giving an extra bonus to big investors then see if you can find people who wants to invest in that ICO and try to pool it that way you can grab the lucrative bonus. Otherwise seeing the recent trend its better to wait till it hits exchanges and gets dump and then pick it up at a cheaper price.

I would honestly say stay away from ico's for a while unless you come across that gem of a project.

for now it is better to buy tokens from exchanges. surely if they are not very very good projects.. we need to bull market for investing new icos.

buy in ICO is a big risk, but if everything good and project serious - it could be very profitable, but now everything risk, market frozen

I also notice this and has a plan but Im still worrying because what if the market will change in a few days, of course that project you are waiting especially if its a good project will increase its value after being listed on exchange and you will regret that you miss the chance to invest on its ICO.

Investing on ICO's and newly listed coin for me has the same risk.

Both you have mentioned has there benefits and limitations.
Investing in any ico is very risky and so that reward is also very big if everything's goes well and good. Quality hard work is required before choosing any ico. Some times some ico do well but during listed in exchange due to market conditions it trade bellow ico price that time you feel that it's better to wait for the coin get listed and buy even lower price and risk involved is also became less.

It really depends on the ICO, some give you extra benefits if you pay in a certain currency. If you join the Mandana ICO and pay in LISK you get extra bonus amount because Mandana is going to be the first project on the LISk platform

Personally, my decision will be dependent on the market situation. For instance, in times like this if the project seems promising I would wait till it hits exchanges. It's constant most people will dump immediately and this will serve as an opportunity for other to grab at cheap prices.

Almost always the case. Every ICO in the IPO or hold, or fall immediately. It is safer when you buy after the release of tokens on the exchange. As the price falls. And you see the Scam project or not. If you invest during the ICO, you can lose money, since the project can be a Scam!

Why not, do you know Lympo, I joined it and after being listed on the exchange, it has increased 5 times the ICO price over $ 10 and 10 times on ETH. Investors are still profitable when investing in ICO by ETH

Before choosing ICOs you have to ask people what they gain after invest, Take reviews from internet make your on predict and then invest.

You have to be smart in Crypto or you will be scammed at any time.I always recommend my friends and family to learn and increase your knowledge before invest in crypto basic knowledge must be in first.

On ICO it is better, you can select good project and then you should wait for a while. the benefit will not come very fast. I would recommend to check ICOs at www.icoguide.com, very good platform.

For tday, the situation is that  to purchase after coin listed in exchage. 90% of new coins drops after listing. So, why to invest during ICO and wait...

For me it is better to buy after the coin got listed. Unlike the ICO,the risk is less if the coin was ready for trading. I will stay away from ICO's for now until the regulations for scam ICO's are not clear. Also, you will now the demand for the coin when it got listed and there are a lot of things you will discover once the coin was listed. If you are lucky and bounty hunters dumped their coin, you can buy a coin lower than the ICO price with bonus.

To be perfectly honest, I am not an investor, but nevertheless if I was investing on an ICO at this time, I would definitely buy only after it was traded on exchange.
All the ICOs I've seen this year (don't know the global data) have started trading fas below ICO price and stayed at that level
Not to mention that there is always the risk of scam that is partially eliminated if the coin is already traded
cheers

It depends on the project many ICO after listing coins on the exchange fall greatly in price. But there's another side. Many ICO companies during the purchase of coins,tokens offer good bonuses. There is up to everyone themselves.

Like you, I noticed it to ! Once the ICO/s are finished and they get listed on crypto exchange/s, most of them are below ICO price based in the initial listing, maybe the reason of it is the unsuccessful launching of the ICO projects. But for me it is still better to buy on ICOs than markets because the tokens in ICOs are usually discounted.

yes I think that's the right step for now.
because it is very rare for an ICO to be able to make a profit, so we should just wait in exchange, it's a safe step.

Many investors nowadays are just waiting for a specific coin to hit the exchanges so they can buy more cheaper coins. This is the strategies now of some investors because its very normal for a new coin to hit lower price on the exchanges, so better to buy on the exchanges.

Yes, 99% of time it is true. People who buy in the end of the token sale are the most unlucky and also uneducated on how ICOs work in general .
We all know that bounty hunters dump their tokens as soon as they hit exchange but these unlucky investors do not know that.

I think there are many possible benefits by buying on ICO. What is clear is: You help companies launch their products. There is also an opportunity to make profit selling ICO tokens after you buy them.
In many cases, crypto tokens released during ICO are sold at a fixed price in the amount of Bitcoins, eth or US dollars. The price is not supported by anything except the buyer's community trust in the development team to release this product successfully at some time in the future, so usually the token price is quite low on the ICO. After the project is developed and launched, the token value becomes secured with the product that is operating and real. And this phenomenon will lead to price increases and investors can sell their tokens for substantial profits.
However, keep in mind that not all benefits are guaranteed. If the ICO fails, all contributions will be returned to the sender. Even if it works, there is a possibility that the developer cannot send the final product and the token price will never rise. This is the risk that all ICO participants must take into account when they decide to contribute to any ICO.

I think that right now, in this part of the market cycle it's better to wait for them to be listed on exchanges than go for the ico

they usually trade below ico price

Smart thing, because if we buy on ICO, we must wait without any sign or can't analyze what will happen in market. But if already in exchanger, we can compare with ICO price, circulation, etc.

Be sure, that every ICO with bounty campaign will be listed unofficialy on some decentralized exchange like IDEX or EtherDelta and here bounty hunters will dump the price.

Yes, I bought bob's token (BOB) at hotbit exchanges 2 months ago. The price very under ICO price. And then I see the price of bob token up to 3 x now.

depends on the market situation, right now a lot of them trade lower after they're listed on exchanges so it's better to wait in my opinion

On ICO you can buy with a very big discount, but when the coin comes out on the exchange it is traded below the ICO at times. However, there are projects in which there is a redemption of coins after ICO and product development, usually this is written in the roadmaps of projects,and here you can get income only from coins purchased on ICO. The price of such coins on the exchanges is growing and it is difficult to play on the decline.

50/50 never guess where will the new coin, I always buy at ICO, and the exchange, buying when the month, this time is enough to understand where at the moment the price is moving.

I prefer to just buy during the ICO if I really like the coin. They do sometimes dip on the DEX's but not worth missing out if you like the coin a lot.

It's depends on you and the project. Many big investors nowadays stop buying coins in ico and they wait for a listing cause in this down treanding market many coin drop it's price below it's ico price. But this only happens to average icos or below average icos. Cause we see in this bearish market some token like holo quark wan. They give good return before listing. And that's it. If you think that the project is good but some reason not many people know about that then wait and buy it after listening but if you this that project is too much good and also the popularity then it will be better.

more profitable when first listed on the market. because usually many sell below the ICO even up to 20% of the ICO price. and the risk that we have to bear is smaller than when the ICO. because we might have to wait a long time for the token to be listed on the market or the worst possibility the project is a scam. so not buying when the ICO is the right choice.

Because of the bearish market condition I prefer the buy coins afrer bounty tokens has been released, I cause dramatic drop of the prize that you can collect tokens forum under ICO prize.

Buying ICO tokens during the public sale is really sometimes more profitable. But you should invest more money and earlier than others to receive the maximum discount. Without getting the maximum discount it is not profitable.

agree with you, I also think it's more profitable to buy in the market than when the ICO. currently the ICO is no longer profitable plus a very long duration, it's natural that investors are more interested in investing when these tokens have a market. there is no guarantee when ico is finished they immediately listing the token to the exchange as soon as possible.

You should do the same with the SAIFU token.
Also not officially on stock exchanges at a 95 % lower price.

Btw, Is  there a brief summary of how the prices of ico change depending on the number of variables ?

Maybe the smartest idea could be buy after its been listed on the exchanges, when the price was dump, in that way, you were able to buy at the very low price, compared to buying at the ICO price, but when listed at the exchanges, the price was below ICO, which is not profitable sometimes to investors, so better apply right strategy.

All ico are trading below ico price because of whats happening on the market right now so buying after listing om exchange is a good idea

It all depends on how long you want to invest your money, at this point in 6 months you will only be able to see your profit.

I highly do not recommend buying now at the stage of ICO. I have not seen a single project that in the past 2-3 months entered the market and showed a price higher than ICO or the same. Basically, prices are 10 times smaller.

Currently, it would be better for someone to buy when the coin is already in the market because it would be easier for them to cash out and to trade. When you invest in ICO then you would have to wait for sometime before you would be able to exchange your coins and you don't even know when would that be. Some ICOs would take a year and for those who are impatient would not like it.


When you wait for the time that it will be listed in the exchange then you can still decide what price you would buy and you can do some technical analysis as well so that you can have an edge if its right time to buy or to sell. Currently, prices when listed in exchanges would be below ICO price so it would not really be good for those ICO investors even if they have bonuses.

that is really related with market conditions. if ico have really big hype it is really hard to buy that from exchanges. because people will pump that . but for example now it is very risky to invest projects during ico.
you can buy from excchanges beucase even best projects hardly collecting ethereums. and all of these projects getting rekt after coin distrubiton and unlock .

Due to continues downtrend of the market, I think buying coins in the ICO's stage it's not a good idea from now since the majority of coins now are below ICO's price after listed on the first exchange, but these all depend on a project if how they handle it!

I think that is the wrong step, because not all ICO token prices drop when listing in exchange. For me, I will buy tokens on Pre ICO or ICO, because the bonuses are very large, and when listing in the market I only sell the bonus, the rest I hold and I will sell when the price goes up.

sure if you invest in scam ico, you will lose a lot of money but there are many good icos. Make a research before investing

if in my opinion if you have more funds, buy an ICO, after the ICO is finished and enter the market if it sells  ;D

Event though the price of a coin is dropping when first time listed in market, doesn't means we could get directly purchase it before making sure that the coins will be promising in the future. We still need to analyze and understand about the project itself before deciding to purchase the coin.

Buying on the ICO also has the advantage, Because we can get 50% bonus. But it is better to buy when it is listed on exchanger because of this we can see if it will increase or it will fall.

if you believe the ICO is a success, it's better to buy it when ico, because it will give you a big profit if the coin successfully enter the exchange at a high price.
but if you are not sure, buy when enter the exchanger, because that can prevent you from being scam.

I think there is some difference in Both that you mention. At first when you buy or Invest on ICO just invest in "Early Stage" when the Bonus is huge and Intact in that case if  something wrong was going to happen you are not losing heavy due to accumulated Bonus that you earned during the sale. And the Time and market condition also has a huge factor and influence why the price was down. But if you Buy on Exchange there is no Bonus and its fix.

It just depend on our trusted. Some people get benefit when they buy or invest in ICO. The time and the market situation also influenced the price.

I would suggests getting during ICO, as you can get amazing deals. But need to be careful which ones as the market is still terrbile and a lot go below ICO

both is good but we can get bonuses and discount from ICO if we buy during token sale or presale

You can buy tokens at ICO for a fixed price. And after entering the exchange, the price may rise sharply or fall quickly. Here everything depends on the demand for a coin. It is difficult to advise something in this case.

It's very hard to guess. If you think that the project is really worthwhile, it is better to buy when the ICO passes. But it happens that even good projects after the payment of the bounty and the listing on exchange, fall in price. But again I say, it's hard to guess.

It's much better if you can do a reasearch which ICO that will listed on good exchange in the future.
And you buy it from the ICO, and you will earn 100 times profits :D

I think buying on the market is better than buying on ICO because I have realized when ICO is being listed already some bounty hunters do selling and they dont care about the price of that token even if its low or high. Buying on a lower price and selling it in high price by waiting for that time to happen.

It all depends on the situation in most cases when you see that the project is really good and can bring very good benefits to people, then in most cases people are really frank scum, then people do not invest anything, but in rare cases it happens that the project is very steep .

If you want to try to make money from a coin the fastest way then you would want to buy the coin during the ico so that you can start making money from the coin as soon as it is listed but if you want to buy the coin at the cheapest price then you should wait for the coin to be listed and then wait for  a little while for the price to drop further and then you can buy the coins at a cheaper pric

for now it is very rare for me to see an ICO project that when it is in exchange the price is above the ICO price.
I personally prefer to invest when I am in exchange.

Now I recommend to buy tokens after ICO when it appear on the stock exchange because now also all projects are becoming cheaper after ICO.

In a period like this personally I do only 2 options:
1) buy in presale or private sale with high discount (if I am 100% sure about to invest in the project)
2) buy after ICO is finished and has been listened in a exchange.

ICO price in most of cases actually falls after listing so I prefer waiting if I'm not 100% sure about the project.

I share the same opinion, the latest ICO´s are all falled down their ICO price. Perhaps is it also an option to choose an ICO in the pre or private sale phase to buy with bonus.

I would advise you to better buy coins when you are listing in exchange because at that time we can analyze the development of the price of the coin, if you join the ICO there will be a lot of risk of losing your capital if the ICO scams or loses because the price of the coins when listing is lower than ICO price

if everybody buys during the ICO then there is no demand after hitting exchanges and price can drop below the value of collected tokens.

i have seen preople  buy tokens cheep in exchange  than ico. It’s because they are selling their free tokens that they got through either pre-sale bonus or through another promo, such as a bounty program. They don’t care if they’re selling their tokens super cheap, they were free in the first place.I have been watching this trend happen over and over again as new ICO tokens are unlocked by scanning exchanges like IDEX, Etherdelta, Tidex, and Gate.io.

in any case, for today, very few people are ready to invest in the ico company, because there is still a large amount of fraud among the new projects. It is much more profitable to buy a token on the exchange, as a finished product.

It depend on quality of ICO project :). No matter if you're going to buy token of any ICO project from ICO or on exchange as long as it's a good project cause it's really difficult to be able to buy token from ICO if it's a really good ICO project so the only choice is buying from exchange and hold. But don't do that if project behind token is not really good.

To date, the investor is scared by a large number of scammers in the ico market. In most cases, it is this fear that affects the resoluteness of the investor, who as a result chooses the purchase of a token on the stock exchange, and not at the time of the company's ico.

Yes, I think it is better to buy tokens after being exchanged. However, investing in ICO is very risky now. So I don't invest into ICO anymore. At this time, my choice is the coins in top 30. I think it's more safety and can give me a good profit also.

If you want to look for a cheap price then awaits when this entry in Exchange is a good strategy. even many investors who wait for the bounty hunter to sell in the value the cheap so that when riding it will be getting a big profit. If purchased in the ICO could also get fairly low grades but when distributing in conjunction with the bounty hunter then it can be ascertained that the resulting value will not match expectations.

You already said it yourself that after listing in the exchange ICO Token always depreciate it's value. The wise move would be be wait until the dump or downtrend is over and buy the coin. But make sure that it has a potential because if it is a shitcoin, it will continue to depreciate upto the ground.

I see only two options, either buy at the stage of the ICO with large bonuses, or buy it on the stock exchange, because 85% of the coins that have come out on the exchange are falling in price by 50% -100%.

I prefer to buy assets after they are listed. Very often it happens that they are traded several times cheaper than they were sold on pre-sale. Then why buy more if you can buy cheaper? And especially in the market now so many good coins that have sagged in price very much

In this point the most important part is general market conditions. For example if you are thinking do that now. Yes that is right time to buying tokens from exchanges instead of ico. Because every ico getting rekt these days.

I do not think that is the case, although current ICO projects are unsuccessful, but that is because investors have more carefully selected when pouring their money into the ICO market.

There are some great projects that don't do ICO. They are doing weekly airdrops instead of an ICO and already listed on a couple of exchange. I think that's a very smart way of starting a project. In this way, participants can see the project on the market and buy it cheap earlier than others. Win win. :D

By avoiding buying into ICOs, you don’t have to worry about having your funds locked up. No more waiting for tokens to unlock, and no more waiting for them to list on exchanges.You now have the ability to buy tokens for ICOs that you originally couldn’t qualify for. For example, if your country didn’t allow you to buy an ICO, or you couldn’t qualify for the pre-sale due to not being a US Accredited Investor, you can avoid missing out by buying these tokens after they unlock and dump on an exchange like IDEX.

I prefer to buy when the token is listed on exchanges. This token are always cheaper when bought on exchanges because most of the times, it depreciate in  it original market value.

Both had disadvantages and advantages. We know there are so many projects that failed to list on an exchange due to low market or demands for the coin and buying before it during ICO could be a real gamble. Scams are every where also and you might just be caught like a fish in the net. On the other hand if the ICO succeeds, then you have the best opportunities being received from bonuses. On my part though I am just new to cryptocurrency, What I have often heard and seen on post on ICO telegrams is that a lot of people had been so eager to buy and support ICO before really listing it on an exchange. There are good responses from so many investors. You can see post with good comments and pictures with rockets tagged with " to the moon" and yet after sometime when it is listed on an exchange, so many comments then reads negatively, sometimes cursing the admins of the ICO telegrams due to sudden dumps of prices. Dumping is a common thing after it has been listed on an exchange and sometimes the blame goes to the bounty hunters. Whether true or not the point is this, most ICO experiences a lot of problem with the dumping of prices after it has been listed on an exchange and this is in my opinion a natural response from the investors who seemed to be worried about their money when prices dumps lower than the ICO value and when they see that the ICO projects seems to have not almost reached their softcaps.

As history shows, all coins after entering the stock market after some time fall in price. And if the project turned out to be fraud or unsuccessful, then it does not reach the exchange at all. members of the bouni program sell all the coins at once and the price drops. it is wise to wait for a while, to see how the team will show itself and which ones will find unimpaired. . study the project and buy when the price goes down.

Depend of how ICO owner and team trusted, when found an ICO have managed by trusted owner and team I will buy their coin at the ICO time, but when getting fake team I will waiting after their coin listing at exchange market and it be safety for our money.

The stated price of a coin on an ICO is often different from the price after listing, and not for the better. But this does not apply to all projects. Need to look at the project. You will help a thorough analysis. If the project is really worth it, there is a team of professionals behind it, a working product, then it is more profitable to buy tokens at the ICO stage.

I think that in the current situation, given the situation on the market, it is more profitable to buy tokens after they are released to the stock exchange. First, you can buy them at a more attractive price. Secondly, if the token went to the stock exchange, then the chances of its success are higher.

Actually if you choose a good ICO project then you have to buy their tokens when the Pre ICO or ICO takes place. Because when Pre ICO or ICO prices are usually lower than when entering the exchange. But keep in mind that you must choose an ICO project that has a good rating.

A question that has been disturbing the souls of people for a very long time. Perhaps this is really the right question and the answer to it will relate only to the situation on the market.

It's your choice man. Sometimes it doesn't play out they way. Reasons why many projects lists below ico price is what I still don't know yet. Maybe because of the bad market or because some other intention

In my opinion if you want to invest in ICO, it's better to buy tokens after exchanging them. because if you buy coins at the ICO, it will take a long time to be exchanged and it is not clear where to exchange.

Many ICOs were got problem from listing to a certain exchange due to strict compliance. It really takes a long process but it depends on how the team working for it, or maybe there is problem with them.
The problem exist when many ICO goes into scam and a strict compliance for listing are imposed.

as developer works on constants with terms on expending use of strength on possession with the authorized resource investor might request with least on risks as expecting returns on exchange as the decision on appealing market of trading with the crypto finance.

I don't invest in ICO for almost a year. The bear market has changed the game since Q1-Q2 2018 so now I play only in a bear side. I think there is still a room to fall so it isn't smart enough to get in alt now.

yeah that happen usually after listed in the market exchange, its have 2 reason why the prices drop after listing, first is because many investor after distribution coins their sell it, and the last is because the project is not enough good for invest, when you but it after listed i think is not recomended because the project is not interested so the potential to back growth is a little will happen

I think it's really cheap to buy ico but there is a risk of losing our money if Devvteam doesn't want to return if the project fails. But if you buy tokens then the risk isn't there. So it's up to you to choose. If I want to buy tokens ..

I would generally recommend that you refrain from ICO, now the market is below and you can buy multiple Altos at good prices, which will undoubtedly make a good growth, but the question is when no one knows, so buy and be patient.

if I am personally with the current ICO, I prefer to buy after they exit the stock and I just bought because the high ICO prices after exiting the exchange they will go further down than the ICO price

for now it's better to buy after entering an exchange, we can see almost all ico dumps after trading.
but of course there are always different, especially those who have technology. I think the current situation is very difficult to invest in ico

if it's a very good project and also they don't hold a campaign or big airdrop, I will choose to buy it at ICO, but if it's a good project but they give me a large amount of giveaway, I'll choose to buy it when I enter exchange

Yes, waiting for ico project to be listed on the exchange then buy, it would be a wise idea because the ICO market is too difficult at the present time, a lot of projects die and can not grow when the collapse of crypto directly affects ico, buy in ico only makes us passive and very easy to lose money. Buying when the projects listed on the exchange will be safer, especially we can buy at very low prices when a lot of hunters and investors will dump at the time the project is listed, accumulation and buying during that period will make us more profitable in the future but on condition, we need to buy good and potential projects.

In fact, the buying strategy after entering the stock exchange looks better. At the very least, you know that the project is already out. Of course there are risks that developers will abandon the project but they are minimal.

People buy on ICO because of the presale bonus they are offering, and yes there are some coins coming from ICO that the price is dropping after  it hit the market but if you have a good project I don't think it's going to happen and if this happens it will eventually gets it's price back.

At the bearest of the market it might change, there wont be any reason for the dump. The fund collected from ICOs were losing there value as bitcoin price was dropping. There are more effective regulations that could help projects that are coming up lately and better valuation for most of these projects. It is still a good move to purchase tokens that had dumped in the market already.

If not for the dip, i think buying during ICO is much more profitable, you make double of your investment or more, but because of the dip, i think i am in support of buying after being exchanged, here the profit will be huge after the dip.

I prefer buying tokens on exchanges after their listing, because the prices during the tokens sales are pretty high and due to the market conditions the token always dumps. Just wait for several months till the market recovers and buy during the ICO.

The first suggestion is to wait for wait for exchange listing. Second is think in deep before buying any token or coin. Do not invest any bad coin. Be careful from a scam ICO. Always take a look scam section of bitcointalk. People now so conscious.

Best of all. First take part in a bounty. During that time, you will get much more information about a project and you can decide to take part in ICO or not. I like such ICO as from Huobi Russia. Their token will be tradeble on their already running exchange after ICO. During their bounty you can get much more their tokens. Also they are a part of Huobi Global, this is means much!

I think it all depends on the project. If the project is very strong and has a good bonus, it is possible to buy it at the ICO. But it is a big risk. Since there is a chance that the project is a scam. Or, after entering the stock exchange will not be traded.

A bear market is always a bad time for ICOs, as prices drop for all coins. However it can still be better to buy at ICO as bonuses are often offered, and some coins don't hit exchanges for a long time... so a bull market might have returned.

I think buying after exchanging will be more workable for your profit because when you are putting your own money by lending the money from something then if the profit was not been enough for your investment it will you some of the difficult situation for you so that's why I am saying after exchanging will be good idea.

I know quite a lot of potential Korean projects, it's always sold out when you sell. however, these projects are 3 times faster than the ICO selling price. So I recommend if you find a good ICO project, wait until it is listed on exchange

It depends on the project, but generally it is more profitable to buy tokens on exchange - more than 90% of all ICOs tokens dropped in the price for the last year.

At the moment I do not buy ICO. It seems to me that such investments do not bring profit. I would prefer to buy coins after listing.

for me if the price falls, I will not buy ICO on the stock, because seeing market conditions like this is very risky and worrying. I better buy ICO at the beginning because there are more bonuses.

There are some projects that if you wait to buy on exchange, I stead of buying during ICO, you might end up buying at higher price.
I came across a project recently, although, yet to list on exchange, but with the look of things, it might not sell any way lower than ICO price.
The name of the project is Bidooh.
I will not be surprised if the price increases on exchange.

I think it depends on how much you want to invest to this token. If you want to invest a lot of money in the project, then you better invest during the ICO. If you do not want to invest a lot, then you better buy tokens after listing on the exchange.

unfortunately at the moment the value of tokens at the end of the ico is destined to go down, it is better to wait and then buy the token once listed on the exchange

I think the majority of opinion will be buying on the exchanges. Reason being that, with the recent continuous downward movements in the market, it isn't uncommon to see coins, fall by over 80% upon listing. Meaning losses in excess amounts on the part of ICO investors. The wisest thing now by any potential investor is to hold on for exchange listings before they can actually invest. Thus gives them an opportunity to buy these coins/tokens at a much cheaper price.

I think considering the present market conditions, it is safer to buy on the exchange than to buy at ico because most projects that list on exchanges now tend to lose their value. So why rush to get it high at ico when you can buy low on the exchange

Investing in ICOs are not so profitable lately  as it was before and has it`s risks that the price will dump after being
listed on exchanges. I am rather investing in new ICOs when they are more established on the market.
The reward is smaller but the risk as well.

From what i have been seeing , it is no longer as profitable as it use to be during ICO where you can make very huge profit, i think this could be as a result of the choice of exchang,so  buying from exchange is now  cheaper and better, Till when the market stabilizes.
Then we go back to buying ICO

If I wait after listing, I may not ensure that the coin that I suggest having great future will be successful and hot the market. However, seeing the market condition right now, I think that buying them on ICO or exchange will give us the benefits. They may be different, but they have different, plus and minus sides. SO personally, buying on ICO is good enough.

I do not want an ICO to take me down with my investment so I rather wait these days for the more established projects to invest in them. Not taking the risk anymore to invest in early phase of the project as I had bad experiences in the past. (delay, not being listed, not raising the soft cap etc.)

I think that to buy some coins or tokens is only on the exchange, at least at this time, when after listing on the exchange all the tokens and coins fall in price several times.

buy at the ICO does not guarantee it will be good when it makes on the market. even many of the ICO that even contain old coins which ultimately did not enter into the market so as inhibit the results. might be better to wait for when they enter the market and awaiting disposal conducted by the bounty hunter at cheap prices. However, analysis of the coins that are believed to be also good to do and not recklessly pick only.

Based on the usual market condition, i will choose to purchase coins when it already listed in the market. Cause usually the price when it get into the market for the first time will be drop, that is a good chance to gain many profit.

ico is not necessarily good even though it has been registered in exchange. and we've seen it several times. the price at the exchange is always below the price of ico. and for now, many of them (ico) are concerned with products rather than prices.

most ico price drop alot when listed in market.and much their investor shouting about it , they stress with this condition and trying to hold the ico tokens/coins.but other holder selling it cheaply and make another investors panic and doubt about their token future.product didnt guarantee the price will recoverd.maybe if dev team decided to buyback some token it will make investors trust get back.

Much better to buy on ICO with a confirmed decent exchange rather than buying when it gets listed. In ICO, you get bonuses so you still profit even though it starts dumping. Buying after listing is very risky as you don't actually know if the price will ever increase again.

If you buying at ICO just know that you are buying at a very risky price because if the token get launched on exchanges it will lose value at first because of dumpers so you will get them at cheaper price on exchanges ,I prefer buying on exchanges

I do not think of the risk if you buy a good ICO. But the issue there now is the fact that we are still in bear market and many tend to drop in price almost immediately. It takes a lot of time and patience this days for a listed ICO in an exchange to go above the ICO price. Those days i prefer to buy in an exchange but as it is now i prefer to buy during ICO only when the project is very strong and solid and in conclusion, always do your own research before investing.

If you got into an ICO as private investor and think there is a high proportion of you getting something out from it in a very reasonable way at least because private investors tend to buy with good bonuses and i do not think most of them are always at risk that is why we still see them investing and promoting such project even if some of them knows that such project is fake but the assurance from the CEO that they will list in an exchange is something that helps them to keep investing...

It's both profitable in my opinion because those who dumped the price usually are whaled who bought tons of token during ICO to take advantage of the bonus so when it enter in exchange they dumped it because still they get profit .

for now buying ICO or investing in an ICO coin will only bring huge losses because the ICO price is always down more than 10 times from the original price and can even go down even deeper so don't buy a few ICO coins unless you want to buy stable coins like Rockz then it's a good choice.

Yes, because of this bonus, many investors are left with nothing. This is human greed)) The vast majority of projects that reached the listing on stock exchanges, fell in price. It is right. Be sure to find and correct errors. Be sure to sell members of the bounty programs that are bought with a bonus.

In fact, today, the overall conjuncture of the cryptocurrency market shows a drop in all prices for coins. Almost no project shows the stated results of the company ico. Coin prices have fallen even lower than the prices at which investors bought coins, even with the use of 50% bonuses.

If you find a good project, and want to invest in it. Let 's wait after listing exchange to buy and hold. Because now token's prices are often dumped deep right after listing. And you can also limit the purchase of a scam project

I prefer buying ICO now on the exchange because of the price drop after the ICO. Before now I used to buy ICO during the sale and make huge profit. Since last year I notice that the majority of the ICOs launched in the exchanges were far below the price of the ico and investors were losing more and there was a lot of complaint from investors. This has affected ICO of recent. Few ICOs can hardly reach their hard cap because investors don't want to invest in ICO and find out that there is a price drop after exchange launch. The disappointing thing is that they will promise you that the ICO will become so and so price increase after launch but the reverse is always the case.

nevertheless, we must understand the importance of the investment during his company. This is in any case give the opportunity to develop well the project. Based on this, it is necessary to invest in ico companies that have a heightened interest in society and accurate forecasts of their prospects.

I have never understood those people who buy tokens at the price of ICO, because when these same tokens will be trading at exchange they almost always cost much less, it happens in hundreds of times and even in thousands of times cheaper, so I see no reason to buy tokens for the price ICO.

Buy on exchange! There is much more sense to do that!
According to my 1 year experience I see that almost all of the coins lose price after ICO and for me there is more sense to buy on exchange later

They are longing for the bonus so they are buying at the ICO price.

And there's a tendency like in the past that these tokens are increasing on its value once its landed to an exchange.

If you are not a pong term holder of genuine coins, then you may not bother to buy on exchange, but you may be surprised that there are certain projects that still trade above ICO price, after listing. Although such cases are rear. The level of your research and how much you understand how most of these projects operates and the market system, will help you to project correctly what will happen.

Some investors or traders prefer to buy an altcoin after being listed in an exchange, it is simply because most altcoin gets dumped. Hence, the price on the exchange is sometimes cheaper than the ICO price. It takes sometime for some ICOs to reach their ICO price once it gets listed. That's why some choose to buy on exchange rather than during ICOs.

Well, I think you answered your own question.
If you see something that is usually $10, and it's on sale for $7, why would you wait to buy?
Of course, you need to consider how good the new project is and if it will last.
But due to market conditions, there are basically a lot of good projects that lost value.
Doesn't mean they won't be successful.

That's why investing in an ICO is a bad choice now.
It is much better to just wait.
If the ICO fails, you lose nothing.
If it makes it to an exhcange and the price drops, you get it for even cheaper.

Buy on ICO, thats the main reason why they wanted us to buy their ICO price as if they are legitimate project, our investment will going to induce some profit rather than buying on already established tokens on exchanges.

I think buying at ICO or after being on the Exchange is equally good, for example we buy at ICO we will get a 50% Bonus and that is big, and when you buy after entering the exchange it depends on our interest, if you are lucky we can buy below the ICO price , if not, hope will be dashed.

I think that at the ICO stage it makes sense to buy coins only in the case of very good bonuses, and a guaranteed placement of coins on the exchange as soon as possible should be an obligatory condition.

ICOs is losing its popularity, because of the coin price after it hits the exchanges! Personally, I will not invest in ICOs at this moment, I will wait to buy from exchanges or I will invest in STO (Security Token Offering)! Because if you buy tokens from the ICO with some bonus then still you will fail to make a small profit when it hits an exchange!

For good projects, it is best to buy during ICO because such projects will likely list at prices above their ICO price. It also helps the project to raise fund to actualize their goal.

I think it's better to invest once the tokens will be on the exchange, so as of now all the projects after the listing of its tokens drop in price.

It seems to me that most of the coins are very much cheaper at the time when they enter the exchange. This means that buying on the exchange is more profitable.

Many projects are delaying their token listings and due to the bearish market the whole listing process is prolonged.
And when finally listed in many cases the token price dumps. For this reason I invest  only when the project
got listed on exchanges.

in my opinion it's natural because they put their coins in the market when the market conditions are still not really good, when like this there are so many people who need money including me so that when there is an opportunity to sell then I will sell and this is what happens to people therefore if the coin has entered the stock then the price will immediately drop because many sell their assets

It's better to buy the ico token after being listed it into a exchange because the price get dump or less after listed it in exchange because market will also set the price of every coins.

Agree, its better to wait for it to list on exchange instead buying on ico time.. Because we cant predict nowadays if the ico project will success or not... Even if ico ended but still some of them have difficulties in listing their project on exchanges till the time even the project reached SC/HC  it will turned into scam or failed project...

the use with preparedness on developer to work on scheme as complying with chance on task with arbitrage trading on market with the crypto currency exchange that those might helps as the use on anchoring to deliver message on improvement as the use with reference for investors of token to work on decision of expands as the moderation of news and message on release with the advertising from the developer.

I personally prefer to buy coins after ICO enters the exchange market. Because when you enter a coin it has entered the exchange market you can find out the development of coins. We also have to spend time doing research so we don't buy coins wrong.

If you join the ICO of the right project, then you can make a nice profit. But you have to do a good research. Or you can lose all your money. But if you buy the stock after you start trading on the stock market, then you can sell that tokens without losing all your money even if the price of token falls. It's a less risky way to buy a token which in trade on some exchanges, but I think your profit may be less. So you have to evaluate these possibilities and make the choice yourself.

That strategy was actual for the first part of the 2018. Right now I didn't see any projects expect Bittorrent that gave good profits on ICO.

I don't really think that this growth is the beginning of a bull run however I do want to believe in it)) Personally I'm convinced that the real growth will start either in second half of this year or in 2020 when Bitcoin halving will take place. And now we are witnessing just a kind of correction after a long drop and flat price movement.

from the little experience gathered over a period of years in the ICO and project promotion phase and after it enlists in an exchanger, the best idea is to buy the tokens when it gets to the exchanger as the price gets to reduce too and makes a better buy opportunity to the prospective investors. just my opinion though.

Buying on ICO stage is very risky if you are not researching of the token that are you are buying for because many of the investors now a days don't really understand what is the purpose of the coin or token that they are buying. I recommend to buy on ICO but make sure that you do research first because the potential of increasing after listing on the market is very high.

Putting your investment into any ICO project is hazardous thus that compensate is likewise enormous if everything's goes great. Quality diligent work is required before picking any ico. A few times some ico progress nicely however amid recorded in return because of economic situations it exchange cry ico value that time you feel that it's smarter to sit tight for the coin get recorded and purchase even lower cost and hazard included is likewise turned out to be less.

Whether the project is scam or not, it can be verified. Whether to buy tokens at ICO or exchange is a difficult question. Over the last few months in the majority of cases, the price of tokens after listing on exchange has been falling. In the current situation - when new increases of prices start, it will probably be more profitable to buy tokens during ICO.

This is a difficult question . When you buy in ICO, you will receive incentives from the project and you can buy tokens with extremely low prices. But it can also make you lose a lot of money when the token price is not high after listing

Its not about price going up after listing, its about bonuses you get when investing on ICO. Some traders are actually taking it a serious business to buy on ICO for bonuses. Being an ICO participant gives your the to have the tokens in your hands while the token is abut to get listed. Its now just up to you to take profit or wait for the expected price.

It is better to wait until the price falls to its minimum and when it starts a gradual increase, buy it, so at least it is clear the project is not doomed to death, and if you buy at once, the probability of losing all the money invested is too high

besides, the ICO price after entering the exchange usually goes down so buying it at that time is very profitable because so far I have not seen any ICO that has a higher price after entering the exchange.

many people took advantage at the ICO, especially when the Private Sale and Presal. it gives a bonus. well, but many people sometimes wait for the market before buying it. well, it all depends on someone's needs. for myself, when I need a coin, I might buy it on the market.

I think if you ask a similar question, then you are not very good at ICO, and therefore did not make a detailed analysis of the projects. Based on this, I can advise you not to invest in ICOs in the current period, neither before nor after listing on the exchange.

I don't think so, because if the project is good enough and has a high trust from the community, the price won't be dumped. Buying underprice token from an exchange just after the token listed same as burning down your own money, just my opinion.

It depends on token distribution. It depends some factors like How much bonus was given to early investors? And the potential of the project. ICO is quite risky investment and massive research is needed prior to invest into any project.
If it is not special project, price falls immediately after it enters into exchange. So if anyone wants any token badly, may be after ICO is the right time to accumulate. But please do not consider it as financial advice. Cause every crypto is unique

Yes. Now it is very rare when tokens after listing on the exchange begin to trade above the ICO price.

Buying ICO tokens on exchanges doesn´t really help ICO. If everyone would buy ICO tokens after the sale on exchanges, there will not be any ICOs.  ::)

Everything depends of course on the project itself, but as happens in most cases, it is better to buy all the tokens for pre-sale, because at this stage of sales the investors get the biggest discounts on these tokens and on these bonuses, you can also buy after the completion of sales tokens on decentralized exchanges and soon sell when the token will be listed on large exchanges.

Most definitely. A huge loss on main sale investor's dollars is par for the course for ICOs in the past 12 months and it doesn't look like changing any time soon.

Mainly smart investors prefer to buy for cheap prices and it doesn't matter where they get these tokens. Pre ICO and private sale prices are cheaper than ICO price and there is no guarantee for early investors about profit/loss ratio after getting  listed on exchanges.

Definitely after the first exchange listing, because it does not make sense to pay 10 cents per coin during the TGE phase. It is a much better decision to wait for several more months and to get the same token for 1 cent.

Actually, it depends on the project. Investing in ICO project is a good decision if that ICO confirmed as a good project. Because in ICOs, people get a huge bonus, even some ICO gives 40-50% bonus! Even if you invest in Presale or Private sale then you will have more bonus! That's why people still continue investing in ICO projects. After listing on exchanges, coin's price can be dumped, but still, ICO investors will be the win. But if that project doesn't well enough then buying from the exchange would be the best choice.

Today now it is obvious. After the ICO project finishes, the projects coin prices drops 1/10. If you bought a coin from $1 after the ICO time you can buy them $0.1 in the exchanges. This problem comes out because of the bounty hunters. Ofcourse i am not blaming them, they work and need money. I believe that if the ICO projects pays with another coins there would be no problem. They can pay with BTC or ETH and that time their coins wouldn't loose their worth.

The project will not push through if you will not buy on their ICO, this is the reason why they do crowdfunding so they can go on with the project and launch their platform, and besides they offer a generous bonus for participants, so it's worth to invest in ICO.

With the many re-occurring disappointments after ICO listing, I won't advise any one to buy on ICO now. I better wait for exchange then go in big with a projects worth it.

There is no universal answer to this question.
I want to point out one interesting moment to buy tokens - right after bounty distribution. Most of the bounty hunters are dumping their tokens ASAP.
The price usually drops more than 50% on this day and tokens can be bought cheaply.

That's true but you will not see that happens if the project did not get enough funds to push with the project, of course, it's good to buy when it is dumping in exchange but you also need to buy in their ICO stage to support the project.

I think that if the project is promising after listing on the stock exchange, its price begins to grow. But in today's market, I don't invest in ICOs at all because even strong projects after listing start to lose in value.

You must do analyze and get a trusted project. Just try to invest in the ico like BTT and the next should be fetch.ai. As you can see BTT was creating a huge waves for ico again dude. But it's better to buy that when it listed on exchange site.

Buy coin ICO in the big Exchanger. Or, buy coin ICO held through a large Exchanger such as binance. Because the possibility of a pump will be bigger. And security is guaranteed.

The decision to buy during ICO or after listing depends on how promising the project appeared to the investor after performing the thorough research into the project. Some projects can be seen from the scratch that right after listing, the price will begin to rise due to the concept of the project and how demanding the product of the project is.With such projects, buying during ICO is the best.

actually this is a big dilemma. when the token has not been listed and finally in the listing, the price can go down. or after listing prices can go up. now if we buy before the listing, and the token drops after the listing, we lose. or we buy after the token price listing is stable or tends to fall, we also lose. but in my opinion, it's better to buy before listing because the presentation of profit that can be obtained is greater.

For me, smart move is buy token once it was release in exchange and very important thing to do is to research first before buying any token. Check if there is really a potential or profit in that token.

buying better at ICO events in my opinion, because they offer big discounts at the start of the sale. but if you buy after being registered dimarket there is no purchase bonus but you can directly trade the coin.

Aside from big discounts, if you buy during ICO, it helps the project to become successful. If the project was successful, you can surely earn huge profit. If you buy in exchanges, there's a huge difference on how much you can possibly earn when you buy during ICO. You missed the opportunity of earning huge profit if you buy in exchanges.

In this market, it is quite reasonable, because the absolute majority of the coins that hit the stock exchange immediately lost a lot in price!

That's quite a bad idea I think? based on my experience, when a coin is listed, right after that, its price is going down since bounty hunters are dumping its price. It cannot be controlled so let time pass for a bit moment.

Now almost all projects profitable to buy after entering the stock exchange, as almost 99% of all projects coming out fall in price about X10 down!

It is really a good decision if we will buy tokens in exchange than in ICO. We cannot ensure if the tokens in the ICO will get listed on an exchange. We can avoid scam ICOs if we are going to buy tokens in exchanges.

Everyone has to make his own decision for himself how he will act, it will be your decision, so that then no one is to blame for what will happen. So I never give advice, try and you will understand everything. So earn your experience.

This is always happening when the token is not yet listed for a long time. Some of the investor or bounty hunters dump their token at lowest price as possible just to get out. I think if we want to avoid losing big is not to go all your funds in one ico.

I agree too that we buy in ico because we will never know what will be the outcome. If the price will go down or up. If the price went down and you think the development will lift it in the future then leverage your investment. Buy at very low price to even your holdings.

With the increasing rate of ICOs failure upon exchange listing, I think it is most profitable and safe to buy on the exchange than to get into the ico. But projects that are very good with a good team of market analyst tend to wait after their ico for a better market to list in order to protect their investors from dump. For such ICOs it is better to get into the crowdsale than to wait for exchange listing before you buy.

I think for now buying coins on an exchange will be cheaper so the chances of getting profit are getting bigger. although buying coins at the ICO will get a lot of bonuses, but I think when it has been listed on our exchanges it will still be difficult to make a profit. because the price decline is very unnatural.

Buy on ICO have advatnges because you can purchase token or altcoins who more cheaper. But is worst of that if the ICO is end and the  coins listed to the market and the price is lower to ICO price so you wate your capital and waste too much time of waiting. They have advatanges  of investing to ICO and  if the coin listed to the market but there is also diasvatanges of the two

now almost all projects that go to the exchanges are traded much lower than the price for which the coins are offered at ICO 

Yes i agree with you. If you want to buy the tokens, i think you should buy in the ICO. Because if we wait for the exchange, the price will goes high. And in the ICO you can get the bonuses too.

buying after listing on the exchange is a good choice but usually you can miss the moment because some ICO will usually experience a price increase at that time but only certain ico is not all, buying ICO when not exchanged is the right choice but in the current condition you have to due diligence before investing

If you care about the price and not the product, then yes, most of the times, after ico, when the token hits exchange it's price goes down. If you care about the product, then it should not matter when you buy it.

The example of the BitTorrent project showed us that there are projects whose tokens are worth buying during the ICO, because after entering the stock exchange they will cost several times more expensive. In the case of BitTorrent, investors managed to increase their investments by an average of 800%. Therefore, I believe that the tokens of such projects should be bought on ICO.

We are still on the down trend that's why everything seems to be going downward. I'd say it's still much better to buy during ICO coz price is generally cheap. I only suggest that you invest on a good project so that it has a fighting chance of withstanding the bearish season.

Since i still don't dare to make an investment in an ICO, because of those scam ICO occurred in the market. making me hesitate and stop myself to make an investment on ICO, so i rather make and investment in the market on the coins that already been proven to be able to generate good profit.

95 % of all coins are really useless and will eventually die as it are of no use to anyone. Simply now many want to earn easy money and every day create new coins that will not have value in the future. So better just buy working coins: Ethereum, BTC and other from top-50.

- Indeed, the biggest benefit from buying during the ICO period is that we can get more incentives and bonuses, buy at low prices and get a lot of support, a gift is probably too attractive for all investors but perhaps this attraction is only good in the past. The current time is as you say, we can buy at a low price but the price when listed on the exchange, it will be lower than the price we buy, and this is the case where we have a little luck, the worst case is that the project is not listed on the exchange, that would be a big loss, thus ignoring the temporary benefits, choosing the safe option as buying after it is listed.

I think buying at ICO takes place will be more profitable because a lot of bonuses are offered. I have never invested in ICO or bought ICO after being registered in the market.

It is the ICO that makes the bounty hunting industry alive. And in that case, we bounty hunters also contribute to the development of the ICOS, so, investors and hunters let us be united to support an ICO.

I think this step is the most reasonable action imaginable. This is how you can protect yourself from scam and save your money.

I came across a particular coin that those who bought during the UCO will be good they did, because it will yield and show good growth on exchange. I like projects that are constantly undergoing developed and that have hypes being built around them before listing. There have been such projects in the past and their later was greater.

buy it when ico starts, especially when it hasn't reached the soft cap, because the exchange rate is definitely still low. and when the token is on the exchanger, it may increase many times.

Many ICO's offer bonuses for people who contribute to ICO's during Pre-sale. I am part of an upcoming ICO project and we are going to offer two great bonus stages for people hopping on our Pre-ICO campaign. They will be able to get more tokens for a smaller contribution. We will also target a specific group of people who will be most interested in getting as many tokens as possible to use them on our marketplace and hold them for additional bonuses.

Additionally, we will heavily work on informing our contributors why they should hold the token and not sell it upon being listed on the first exchange. We are going to release a very useful product and we are confident that we are going to have a very stable start. It is a matter of communicating with your supporters as much and as often as you can to let them learn better about your project. It is pretty simple but involves consistent work for a long period of time.

Its good to invest during ICO because the price is cheaper and they are giving bonuses for the early investors, but the problem is there are many scam ICOs nowadays and its hard to determine if the project is genuine or not. Thats why its important to do an extensive research before investing your hard-earned money, remember scammers are everywhere.

At this point I prefer to wait until the coin get listed in exchanges before buying just to make sure.

if you buy ico when trading it is usually a high risk because most ico if it has reached the highest price and you buy it the worst possibility is a severe price reduction can even reach -100%, but if you buy ico when the public sale / presale loss risk will decrease but that valid if it does not get a scam / unclear project

Buying on ICO is recommended if the project is solid enough to grab the coins before certain pump. If the project is honestly bullshit, then buying as a process wont freaking make you earn profits. So, keep your eyes open and focus on the quality and the need of the service.

If a token price keep dumped after listing on exchanges then it is not worth to invest because the chaces of getting recovered is very less so invest on token which price grown after the ICOs are considered to be better for long term investment.

You should ask about the bonus that is given when doing ico. including private sale because the price is very cheap and maybe you can participate. from the moment the price of ico is indeed quite expensive. or option to choose when already in the market

I noticed that project tokens after the end of the ICO and entering the exchange are much cheaper and I successfully use it. Of course, projects are not always successful in the end, but it is an excellent life hack to buy tokens of promising startups.

It's better to buy when the coin hit the market, you can see from there if there is demand and the price is not falling and of course some ICO will not get in the market, because devs have run away with investors money, this is the real scenario in the ICO.

indeed there have been many people who think like you, they are more interested in buying tokens when the token goes into exchange for the first time.
therefore it will be more profitable than buying it when the ICO takes place at ICO prices.

If the project is interesting and I am interested in it, I prefer to buy tokens after their appearance on the exchange. Bounty hunters sell at a very low price. I have done so many times and always got a good profit from it.

For me it depends on ICO kind If its a promising ,useful and has true use case I will still participate during the early ICO rounds because the token price in these stage was still cheap and the Bonus round is intact. I will choose to invest in ICO rather that to buy on the exchange  if those ICO platform characteristics is present.

If you buy token on exchange you will buy token for much lower price, there is a trend that after token listing price dump to the lowest possible numbers.

After all, the price after entering the exchange in almost every case is less than the ICO price. The choice is obvious, if, of course, the project is still not fraudulent. But if the project is powerful and in demand, as much as possible tested, then there is an opportunity to earn good money on bonuses during ICO

Buy when listed on exchange is the best choose for now.
Look at the bad market now, and many ICO fail and scam alert.
Just buy in exchange, that is safe now.

Here's what i'm doing recently
If the project (good project and u wanna invest) have some bounty campaign, then I'll wait till the distribution of bounty token and then buy from when it's available on exchange official or not official listed (i.e buy on forkdelta, etc). other mean i'm not buying on ICO phase.

But if there's didn't have bounty campaign, then Pre-ICO or Private Sale is good choice i think

There are many tokens after be sold at ICO, they are never listed in market and they are also just zero, there is no any value. So, wait to buy when they are listed in market will more guarantee for you

now in retrospect the question is easy to answer. buy on the exchange.
but at the beginning of last year, when the hype was huge, everyone jumped on ico´s. and lost :-X

I prefer buying on exchangers because of lower volume or lower price of tokens. i dont want to buy on ico because of high prices and dump after exchangers so much better to buy on exchangers and hold for couple of time then sell if the price pump.

If you looked at the ICO that just get in, in the market, you will get disappointed because the coins are dropping up to 80% of their ICO price even if you have a large bonus you will still lose your investment, so it's better to buy when it hit the exchange.

with the constant dump in price post ico, it looks like buying from the exchange seems more profitable this days, this is largely as a result of huge discount given to private investors in projects, once token is listed on exchange the private investors will dump and crash the price, i don't believe the little percent given to hunters can affect price that much, even if you miss out on ico don't worry too much because you can get in exchange even 3x cheaper than ico ;D

Even if the ICO offers bonuses I would prefer to buy the altcoins after exchange listings. There are so many projects and fakes that not come to exchanges. Often there are also much cheaper and KYC is not required.

Usually, buy an ICO is more better than you buy it when list on exchange.
ICO time is good time to invest, you buy and get many bonus come to you.
Take ICO and take profit.

Buy token during ICO is the most shady aspect based on the dump after been listed on an exchange, Buy ICO tokens after been listed on an exchange is still the best as the price at this time will drop. Is advisable to always buy token during ICO which i considered as the smartest step.

buying when you enter an exchange is a good choice. it will make you safer and we can also know how many investors are interested in the project. we can also make long-term or short-term plans. and buying at ICO is currently too risky, you can see how many projects have failed or scam since the beginning of this year.

I think buying a market compilation is better than buying when ico ... some ico fail and some are successful ... this fact can make a better consideration if you want to buy some ico ... so if I, I prefer when the ico enters the market

It seems to me that 90 percent of the projects have not received market implementation. All projects in which I participated were transferred till June to July

Investment on the new ico is more risky against the some top coins in the crypto market because new ico are promising to all investors about the successful the ico but mostly ico are fail and they are not reaching to the selling offering price at the time of listing of coins. So many people are not liking to invest in the ico. Now this is your decision that you have to invest in ico or not.

There is no single solution for buying cryptocurrencies. Each project must be approached individually. For example, bittorrent gave a few X when listing on the stock exchange, but I'm sure that after a while it will be possible to buy below the ICO price.It all depends on the purpose you're pursuing.

It seems to me that the investor is only trying to smile and this is a profitable investment in a really promising project. In many cases, even 50 percent discounts during the sale of the company’s ico token may be disadvantageous, given the scenes after listing on the stock exchanges.

depending on so many factors. Since generally the price of token may fall when listed on exchange, you may consider buying after listing but you may not be able to buy more especially when the token is not listed on good exchange. I have seen so many token hardly have 0.1BTC volume in 24 hours. except if you are very patient. you can be buying little by little and be accumulating the token.

Now such a situation in the crypto market and the ico market, that it is better to buy tokens or coins after ico. Most really cost several times cheaper than ico prices and that would not pay more is better to buy on the exchange. But there are ico, which cryptoactive is already in demand for ico and continues to gain momentum when entering the stock exchange. There are few such ico, but they are there, and of course it is better to buy at the beginning of ico and you can get a discount.

The second option is much better on the falling market and can bring you much more profit. Just wait until fresh projects are going to be listed on their first exchange, wait for several days and buy the same token but for a much lower price.

buying at the beginning of the ico will certainly benefit by relying on bonuses as a closing loss if entering the market it turns out the price is below the price of ico

I really do not understand high discounts on token sale then wait for the stable prize on exchange. How many people can keep  all his coins if after %50 discount he can sell them 2x prize ? Of course very less. We need to keep focus on project instead of ICO prize. Do your own calculation and decide your points to sell.

The best the I have witnessed is to buy after ICO because you may not be that lucky to be a seed or private sale investors. These are the people who dump the tokens and take their profits to invest in another potential projects.

Since maybe more than 90% of ICOs fail in bear market the answer is that you should buy when it hit exchanges.If you buy in ICO your funds will be stuck for god knows how much time with the possibily of making the investment almost 0 after it so I will not touch any new project now.

That’s why we have to analyze well every project, because investors are more wiset now and they will just by a new coin who successfully listed on the exchanges. This is the common problem of a new ICO, i hope that they will still continue to work so in the future they will become a big coin too.

You have to consider this one, ICO really takes time to make profit and there is no assurance for that. Many investors don’t want to get into new projects right now because of this risk. If you invest after the exchange listing, the possible pump can still not be sure but at least you have time to buy that coin at a cheaper price, the next move for you will depend on your strategies.

I will suggest you to buy coins at the moment of running ico. But in this stage you have to more careful about the project. You should justify the project very well.You should remember that project is legit and potential.

Would wait until the token is listed on the first Exchange.  At the latest when the bounty participants and early investors dump you can buy cheap.

i would prefer buying a coin after ico is much better we can get less price once the coin listed in exchange after listing in the exchange we can gain profit

until markets get better condition, best one is buying coins if they can enter any market.
because most of coins can not enter any market after ico. most of them can be scam.

Its not a good decision to buy tokens at ICO price because I'm so positive that the token price will drop big time and buying after listed on exchanges makes more sense cos you will get more quantity of the tokens

If this ICO is very hot, you can not buy with ICO price when list on exchange. You can wait and buy at dip when they sell token.

I can buy from any where an far as the project is proven to be authentic. It makes no difference to me. Although I have lost money on ico (bad ico) I should say, but wouldn't stop me from appreciating the good ones and investing in them when I see one.

In general, I think that the idea is not very bad, but probably today many people try to buy it after the ICO, although it seems to me that there are already very few people who really buy something. Such a time.

up to now maybe if we buy an altcoin in exchange it would be cheaper than buying at the ICO because I still see ICO coins when entering the exchange the price falls many times, although on ICO there are lots of bonuses but I think the price is still cheaper on the exchange.

I prefer to buy after listed in an exchange. And if I am going to invest then I make sure that the project has a good team.and good target of their goals and objectives. Usually one can analyze it through the project concept the telegram.channel to which the team announces.the updates of the project and how promising it will be.

In General, I agree with you, but I can not understand why you answer me? Please clarify this point!

For all project I follow, most of them is always dump till 10x from the ico price.
So better wait on the exchange to buy

if everyone thinks like you, why do you promote ico? and that will make ico get no investors. if ico does not get funds it will not succeed in developing. he will never be registered in exchange.

I suggest to you to buy the tokens after ICO's got listed into exchange because usually the price will temporary to dumped at that time so you can utilize those conditions with bought more tokens but be carefull and just pick the tokens which have potential to grow and this is necessary to avoid loss

All has the same risk and the potential profit, this is according to our knowledge about fundamental analysis, but look more safe to buy the token after listed on the exchange because we can use stop loss, alot of new token usually listed first in HitBTC and this exchange have feature of stop limit that we can use it for stop loss.

After the hunters receive their rewards and tokens begin to be sold on the exchange, it's time to buy. I've done it more than once. And he always made a profit. If it's a good project, it's worth waiting for. when will sell hunters.

Much depends on the marketing of the project, if they maintain their token on the stock exchange then the price will never fall so deep.

Very good ICO that have very high demand usually pop on listing while the weak ones that meet even their soft cap with difficulty are likely to drop  after listing. Weak market condition is additional factor in drop after listing.

That's just the point that it is precisely because of the state of the cryptocurrency market that new projects show poor results after listing. In addition, I would like to mention that the state of the market also affects the state of the market and companies, which very little attracts investors. But how to change this situation and what affects the poor state of the cryptocurrency market, so far no one sounds able to.

ICO is giving lot of discount for the investors so it is the right time to grab the best token and if a token is losing its value after ICO then it not worth to invest.

For a very legit project, I would prefer to buy during the ICO because such projects may launch at prices above the ICO. But for the weak ones or not too viable ones, it is best you wait till exchange.

Lately, I have been doing just that. I don’t invest my money in ICO, but I’m waiting for the project to place its tokens on a good stock exchange, wait for the price to fall and buy the tokens that interest me.

ICO advertise is excessively troublesome right now, a great deal of ventures bite the dust and can not develop when the breakdown of crypto specifically influences, purchase in ICO just makes us latent and simple to lose cash. Purchasing when the undertakings recorded on the trade will be more secure, particularly we can purchase at low costs when a great deal of seekers and financial specialists will dump at the time the venture is recorded, collection and purchasing amid that period will make us increasingly productive later on however on condition, we have to purchase great and potential tasks.

So the price of tokens is falling because of the bounty hunters. They will be able to sell their rewards immediately even if predie has not yet reached an ICO price.

It is all depends obviously on the task itself, yet as occurs by and large, it is smarter to purchase every one of the tokens for presale time , in light of the fact that at this phase of offers the financial specialists get the greatest limits on these tokens and on these rewards, you can likewise purchase after the finishing of offers tokens on decentralized trading sites and before long move when the token will be recorded on huge trades.

I also use the same method, but it was before ICO conditions like now.

because at the moment I prefer to buy ICO after entering the exchange because it is easier to analyze compared to when the ICO happened because I had experienced several failures in buying ICO during ICO.

It depends on a project itself. You can compare a perspective ICO that sold out 2,5 billion tokens and have collected a hard cap, and project that has barely reached the soft cap. In first situation, there would be no dump and in the second one there would be a huge one.

If the project is really worthwhile, or, for example, has a strong level of hyip, then it is probably more profitable to buy at the initial sale stage, because such projects can give a strong increase from the first minutes after the listing.

A huge number of people today are trying all the same not to rush to conclusions and they buy only after ICO and this is logical, because many people today do not buy anything at all, because they are afraid that they will be deceived.

If the project is a good one it is always advisable to buy during icos considering that most projects give some discount which means that you will be buy more tokens for less

If the project is that good, you should buy on ICO to support it and when it hits the exchange then buy more. The price will surely dumped hard after it puts on exchange. Hold it until the price is right.

In current scenario you must buy something after the coin is being listed on any exchange. But if you are of risky nature and giod analytical skill about judgeing the ico then you can invest in ico because a successful ico give you multiple return in no time

I think buying at ICO is more profitable but in this case it should be bought at early, usually buying at early we can get quite a lot of bonuses, some ICOs give up to 30% bonus, but do research first before investing in ICO, take your risk

I prefer to buy tokens/coins after listing the exchange and see the development of the project, if it is a bad project we just need to leave without waiting. ICO isn't the right choice for me, scammer and also so many fraud everywhere.

I never try to buy token during ico neither after their ico. Because for me in my point of view, its too risky honestly speaking.
I would rather participate to their bounty campaign than investing to their project. Unless they have a potential to to increase in the long run.

Buying at ico will be more profitable and that will become the best investment if we can bought the promising ico token. look at BTT and Fetch and both of these icos have been giving more than 5x return to the early investors instantly dude.

You have a best option to buy during ICO, because at that time you will get tokens at low price with bonuses.
After ICO when token hit on exchange you have to wait to dump but occasionally tokens go up after hitting exchange.

At the moment it is more profitable to buy of course for after the release of the coin on the exchange. After all, the price immediately drops several times (on average 10 times). But as soon as the market comes to life, it will be better to buy on ICO

Well, most of the times, it is better to buy after exchanges. But if they are not greedy and not giving out thousands of tokens free for marketing (partners and etc) you can buy from ico too.

by now is almost a rule after the end of the ico the value of the tokens falls far below the selling value of the ico offer, so it is better to buy them after the end of the ico once they have appeared on some dex

Of course, this option is really very good, because today all the coins after listing are much cheaper on trading platforms. Moreover, such etherdelta platforms are very popular for buying cheap coins.

It depends on which project you are going to invest in. For example, projects that collect funds on Launchpad Binance, begin to bargain on the exchange at a price higher than ICO. But in general, I prefer to buy altcoins after adding on exchanges.

Does anyone have stats or a link to info on hown many ICOs were successful in 2018/2019 so far? BTT and Fecth are the only ones I can think of

Currently investing in ICOs is very risky compared to before now because there's usually low buy order once they hit exchanges, and as a result the price continue to fall. It's better to buy after it has been listed if you like the project.

This is tricky sometimes it is better to wait out the  ICO phase and buy in exchange the coins that will likely drop after the Ico while at the other times his better to buy in the ico stage so that you can benefit from the increase in price, after the ico. Although there is no way to fully judge how the coin will behave but you can at least try to choose a particular strategy to follow

In the bull market, it does not matter, you can get your profit at any stage, but in the bear market it is best to buy after the ICO stage, when it becomes clear what the coin is capable of

As we all know ICOs market is not good at the moment and in my opinion its better to buy coin when it get listed because we do not know whether the project successfully completed or not or get listed on exchange or not So I believe to a buy a coin after listing by doing so atleast we will not have any fear in mind as a investor.

Not all, have you seen the ICO of fet? it is 5x on the first day of trading when it got release. Im sure that's not all ICO will end up in a below price but it will happened as well. Just pick a good and huge project like fet and btt.

It is much more cheaper to buy during the period of ICO than when listed on exchanges. There are  a whole lot of benefits when you buy during ico. You get bonuses upon your purchases and also with some projects investors get to try some features before the general public. In general, for potential projects always buy during ICO.

Buying in the ICO period, you are in danger. It seems to me that it is better to buy when the coin enters the stock exchange, and you will see the real situation.

For me i rather buy tokens which is listed already in the exchanges. Because when you buy in ICO its so risky you don't know how long that project will last or survive.

But in the other side buying tokens in ICO will give you huge profits if they are only legit.

buying ICO after listing on exchanges is also risky although its price may fall more than ICO, I have participated in some bounties and found its price continuously decreased without any sign of increase, anyway, you should still be careful when buying ICO

the problem is to find the new coin that can do a big % of price grow...we must look for coins that are not ico or bounty but people are too stupid for this....I regret I did not get bought coins like litecoin,vertcoin or viacoin when they were very very low in 2015...there is a good dose of luck of course, but you must always do your own researches...for example watch Elicoin in livecoinwatch , is not an ICO or bounty... it's a coin with low mc, low supply, PoW whit cpu, no premine, active dev...only trading it on CREX24 for now...do you own researches in the thread in bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3028302.0... people are too stupid for DYOR and got scammed by ICO or bounty...just my 2 cents...hope it helps...cheers

I think it's better to get into ICO price because if the project is a good to invest in, after being listed in exchange, it will be bumped. In that case, you will miss the early adoption.

If I were to be followed, I would buy in ICO with bonuses. Why? So that if the project will succeed and be listed on exchange, I can dump all my tokens even with less profit I can get. I don't care what others will say but it's the nature of survival.

I think its depend from the project, if you sure the project is great and will give benefits for future, invest in ICO is great because we got many bonus also if the price increase when listing we can sell all the bonus and we still got token from ICO. But if you doubtful about the project, buy it in exchanges is more safe

I think its depends each one of us, which we are preferred to take risk our investment into crypto. Some others usally direct invest in ICO since they're trust on its platform regarding of the result of their research about it. But,  for me, since I'm not really wise to choose a good ICO I just wait for it to put an exchange to determine as well if they're going put in a better exchanges such binance, kucoin, bittrex which is has a large volume. So that I can easily execute buy and sell in that scenario.

Buying on ICO and selling after get listed on exchange is just having a bad news for the investors because most of the bounty hunters will just selling it.

When i started in crypto,i started with ICOS way back 2017 ..mostly we bought during ico but then the project turned oit to be scam or failed... Some didnt reached hardcap... I learned lessons from that.. That why, now id rather wait for the project to be list in exchanges before i buy.. Not only this will help me save money but also to avoid being scammed..

In the case of ICO, there is always the possibility that the project will fail or prove to be a scam. However, imagine that each potential investor will wait for the ICO to be listed on the exchange. In this way, none of the projects will reach hardcap. And even the softcap may be out of reach.

I think that the best thing to do is carefully and carefully analyze the project if you still want to invest today, although probably a very large number of people still say that today is not the best time to invest in ICO

Now, when a huge number of projects after the end of ICO cannot collect enough money for their development, it is definitely worth waiting for the coin to appear on any stock exchange, and only then make a decision about a purchase. If you do it the other way around, big problems are possible.

I've never bought a coin on ICO because I know by all means people will dump it and I will get a cheaper price than the ICO price. Also I find it tedious registering on their websites and especially those who add KYC to it.

it is happening only now. A year ago, people received strong growth after the listing of the coin on the exchange. Now people are stupid and sell their coins for pennies

I think that there are still different situations and no need to blame people for stupidity. In any case, due to the active PR of cryptocurrency and the entire business in the cryptocurrency market, many people have given up their real main job to work with cryptocurrency. If we consider that cryptocurrency for many is the only source of income, then they want or not a person, and they have to sell something to pay their bills on a daily basis.

Most coins offer huge bonuses during the ICO period so even if the project gets listed below ICO value, the investors can still make some profits out of it. All you need to do is to invest in the right project.

coins purchased from ico have greater profit collectivity because of the purchase bonus effect that occurs in several phases offered, but this also cannot be separated from the enormous risk. there is no denying that buying coins in the exchange after the moment of the first phase is safer, the biggest advantage is from the initial investors because their sell orders immediately turn into maximum profits.

It is fully depends on you. And also depends on what coin you want to invest. Now most of the ico coins were going below from its ico price. And that'd why its sometime better to buy coins after listing.  Or buy during private or  presale. Now a days market is not going so well. So most of the coins lost its price or dumped by investors after immediate listing. So most of the holder wait for the listing and then buy at a low price. But if you want to buy a good ico coins then its hard. You have to put your money in ico time. So this whole thing is depends on the project you want to invest.

It depends. If the project didn't have airdrop/bounty better to buy on ICO. If the project has bounty and airdrops it's better to buy after exchange because for sure they will going to dump it fast, whatever the price is.

Buying coins after entering the exchange market is very good because we can find out how far the coin develops. And when you first enter the exchange market, the price of a coin is a dump or remains stable. If the price of a coin stays stable, I think it's very good to buy because I'm sure if the price of the coin will definitely rise.

Initial coin offerings are the equivalent of startups in the businness world and as such can be subject to a range of risks.For cryptos, the potential rewards can also be astronomical.It is not unusual to see 10x ,20x or more ROI especially in a bull market.As a rule,do not invest more than you can afford to lose and spread your risks.

It all depends on the project. If the project is medium and little-known, then even after entering the stock exchange it may continue to fall in price. And if the projects have a big advertising and scroll to a large exchange, such as Binance, then they are greatly increasing in price before the listing and buying them already on the stock exchange is not as profitable as during ICO.

I think that it is still better to buy coins or tokens of new projects on the exchange, since investing in the project during the ICO is quite a big risk.

As many would have say it already, buy after it is getting listed in exchanges. You can get better deal than pre-ICO or ICO prices. But I would say, buy only the real promising ones. Most of them are crap and pump and dump so there's no use of buying them if you can't sell them afterwards.

since we are no longer in 2017 where crypto was at it's highest peak, buying from exchange seem to be a better option, the bonus % given to private investors by ico founders just to get the needed funds to establish their project is one of the reasons there constant dump once any ico manage to get listed in any exchange,

they have to cash out initial investment so they sell at rediculous prices, then small investors will suffer, as long as ico's keep offering private investors such huge bonus, dump will always occur, and more reason exchange will be a better option.

Right, plus if there is a Bounty campaign, airdrop, it will make things worse. Projects with bad teams will be difficult to go up the market or disappear quickly.

Only the project which created by reliable developer can survive in the future consider about the fact that major exchange sites are only wanna listing the trusted platform which have fully working product. Bounty and airdrop should not be a lot of problem if the team can't provide a big liquidity

This is now the most sensible strategy. It will help you save your investment.

It's usually a good idea to buy ico token once it hits on exchanges but on some rare cases like FET, it's not.

Either way, it's profitable as long as the project is good you can buy on their ICO and enjoy the bonus they are offering, some ICO's are offering as high as 0% of the coins you bought, you can also buy the coin when it hit the exchange, provided that people will dump their coin in a cheap price.

I suggest you to buy on ICO sale and after sale when their token / coin already listed on exchanges.
I don't think buy the token only in exchange is a smart step as investor, because the ICO maybe won't raised enough funds from the sale.
If that happening, you won't get the chance to buy their token in the exchanges because they failed.

Binance launchpad ICO's are in a different class to everything else. It's a guaranteed pump to 4x. All other ICO's are far more likley to show debut valuation of a division by 4.

I've been an investor of ICO and I can guarantee that it's not worth if you're not a big investor the only advantage if you're an investor is that you can get a discount, airdrop and other things but if you think that the project will be known for it's uniqueness I suggest that you just wait for it to be listed in exchange and wait for the those people who are dumping their coins and buy it all at low price then sell it on when it rises.

The investors on ICO are holders since they bought it at let's say 2$ but when it hits the exchange it might drop to 0.1$

before listing, if the project is good and successful, usually the token exchange rate will rise after listing on the exchanger. everything is uncertain, sometimes it also goes down after listing. so everything depends on the project.

Buy during ICO you will get a fairly large Bonus usually that you can't possibly get in the market
Buy in the market you can get a cheaper price? it depends on the project if the project is good I think the price in the market will also be good, not lower than the ICO

I think that all depends on the results of your research on the ICO project. So far, I have conducted research on the ICO that I will invest. If ICO is very good and reliable, I will invest when ICO runs. Because investing in an ongoing ICO will get more bonuses or discounts.

I would choose on buying ICO because it has more benefits we can get in there, we can get big bunos and that is another extra income to the investors.

When we buy coins / tokens when they are listed on the exchange, our risk is also quite large if their prices are too low compared to ICO prices, especially you must see their volume, if it is too small, you should not participate will be the best choice

In the current situation it's not good to buy on ICOS because when it gets listed on exchange the price is 10x lower than the ICO price, for me it's better to wait and buy it on exchanges because with small amount of capital you can buy a lot.

I think that is not the smart step to buy tokens in the exchange even you can buy there a dip price of tokens, i believe smart step is to buy during the ICO because you can get there a huge of bunos for the investors if you want to buy in there.

If you are not sure that investing in ICO you better go to the Crypto market. And buy coins that are already established and have a large trading volume. It is indeed not easy to invest in ICO because many ICO projects are a scam. So many people hesitate to invest.

But atleast you can sell them and you can still earn some profit compare to a coin that you invest during ico .

  what if the ico is scam ?  No listing will happen , that also means that you cant get anything even cents because no one will get interested to buy your coins  .  

But atleast buying during ico have lots of bonuses while there is no known rewards if you bought the coin on exchange  .  thats there pros and cons  .

ICO is getting worse and more people are inclined to invest in IEO and STO because this is a new revolution in this market. It can be seen that the IEO has been very successful in recent months because almost all IEO projects are sold very quickly and have achieved great success. I believe in the future we will see many more good projects and the IEO will completely replace ICO

not buying both is the right choice now. too risky to invest in a new project, what's more they have a concept similar to an existing project. don't burn your money just for gambling on a new project.

It all depends on the hype of the project,  bro. For many projects is better to wait for exchange listing, as bounty hunters and early investors with high discounts might liquidate their tokens for a quick profit.

However,  if the hype is huge (see BitTorrent) the price will increase significantly when the coin touches an important exchange.

I prefer buying on exchangers after listing the tokens because of much lower price than the ico prices. and once the tokens dumped price it os the tjme to buy on exchangers and sell if it pump.  you can make it a multiple times to make money easier.

it becomes a difficult choice now. where possible buy when the initial entrance of Exchange would be more beneficial. But if the wait for it, the ico will not be successful. We have to invest in a project that is really nice. If the project has developed and markets I think invest in ico or the open market I think there is no problem.

There are instances that buying in ICO prices is the best and when it gets listed, the prices goes 5x - 20x but it is very rare. But today with the recent ICOs, it does not happen anymore and they go far below their prices after listing so it's smarter to buy after on exchanges.

Try to invest in the best ICO and those that are already running. That way you can buy more ICO coins and of course, the price is cheaper. Investing in ICO is very risky, so you are more careful.

indeed there are some ico that when they enter the exchange the price can be more expensive as you mentioned but it is not all and on average most ICOs are 75% the price is destroyed when they enter the market, and worse this happens when the price of bitcoin falls like this time.

Both have their pros and cons but the pros of buying after hitting to me outweighs the cons. For one, you wont be a victim of ICO fraud, you won't be left with tokens which actually worth less than your investment when it hits exchange, you actually buy at the market value.

I think if we all have a plan to buy coin/token after exchange and not involved in ico, we will not find them in any exchange. So maybe after doing some research and we decide want to invest, better if we split our fund, half for ico and half after exchange.

It is true that many ICO tokens are far from the ICO price when it has been exchanged in the market. Almost all the coins that I have have not reached the ICO price. In my opinion, I am more happy to buy tokens after being in the market exchange. Tokens that are clearly in the market exchange, the tokens are more reliable. If we buy from ICO, it takes time that is usually not fast enough to achieve exchange, especially if it can be longer when the softcap has not been reached.

Throughout 2018 we know that many ICO coins have decreased. There are even ICO coins that are no longer active and have no price. Many people are caught in injury because the coins they have fallen in price. But if you still want to invest in ICO, of course, you have to do research. Check from various aspects so that you can find a reliable ICO.

I think I prefer to buy tokens in exchange, rather than at ICO, because if the tokens that have been registered on the exchange also the price is greatly reduced, so I prefer to buy tokens in exchange, because the price is cheaper than what we buy at ICO.

It is hard to give exact answer of this question. What i am doing is , proper research before investment.

At the moment i am not investing in any project. I did my last investment in Ankr Network and they comes with product launch and listed on exchanges on 5th March 2019 and doing very good.

That's why proper research is required before you invest in any project.

I agree, if you invest in ico, you will lose a lot of money but not all ico is bad

Prices are usually cheap when you enter an exchange, so you can choose to make a purchase when it's already in the exchange. but it depends on which one you choose

Not true for all projects.   If we will look at good projects like Ankr , LTO network , Zilliqa and some others... they never hit their ICO price after listing. So i think we need to do proper research before investment. I know some good projects do bad now a days, so luck is also a factor we can consider.

the most important thing is if we have an altcoin or token that is good for investment in the long run, for us it is also more convenient to buy altcoins or tokens on the market, so I also know the movements every day so for us it is also suitable for investment now.

i also notice that  . when a coin hits on an exchange  , hunters and invsters usually dump it instantly  . that is the reason on why the price is cheap but like you said , cheap price does not also means that a coin is good  .  we must be aware that their were also coins that only being hyped  ( a.k.a pump and dump )   .  

I bought after the exchange was a good suggestion, because buying in ico can not be used as an expectation to get profit. I see if this will be full of risks

It's your choice I must say in this case. I buy from any, point is am a long-term holder so in which ever place I buy does not matter to me. Also you should understand that some projects list on its ico price or higher than its ico price so migh take you some time to buy in a low price.

Depends on the project, if the project is really good and the presale or private sale can sold out in a minute then you should buy it on ICO, but if the ICO just like a casual one and not selling much, then it's better to buy it after being exchanged, i'm sure the price will go low under ICO price.

buying ico when the price at the exchange will only make you regret because usually the price will fall due to the influence of the participants in bounty campaign and the influence of investors who do not have patience. do not let you regret when buying at the beginning when you first registered at the exchange.

if you want more tokens then you invest when the ICO is running because there are a lot of bonuses obtained. but if you want to get profits for the short term then you buy after being listed on the exchange.

In my opinion this is a difficult choice, because as we know our goal of buying ICO yoken or coin is to maximize profits, but from the other side we are also afraid of losing if the ICO token or coin price that we buy is not in accordance with expectations, so you are sure with the coin / token, then buy it.

It is been risky when you invest in ICOs sometimes because they offering a high value of their token and when they already listed in exchange and the price was going down so i prefered to buy on the exchange because it is only in dip price.

Yeah, from ICO get a bonus in the form of tokens, but it can't be used as collateral to get good results.
To be more satisfied in monitoring movements, recommendations available on the market, not who hasn't available on the market.

Within this type of market, i think both sides would be risky, buying coins in the beginning of an ico would give you less price however the risky part is that you don't know that if it is successful or not. While buying afyer exchange is quite good but its price may differ fron the ico price.

Depending on the project you want to invest. If you want to invest in ICO from Binance, you should try to buy them from public sale because after being listed, its price will definitely be 5 times higher.

I think that now attempts to take part in ICO projects from Binance are just an HYIP that sooner or later will bring losses to so many people who want to participate in these projects. All the coins that have now been created are just empty and have no value. Why do they grow 5 times?

The risk-reward for buying into ICO phase is better. Even if the project fails, you still get your funds since they will refund it (unless they are scammers). You also get large bonuses in pre-ico so even if the price drops upon listing, you are still selling with profit. If you buy after listing though, chances are the profit is not much.

- I agree that the decision is dependent on each project but in the present time, projects seem to be not too suitable for us to invest, it contains too many risks, many projects are considered very potential and it will be successful but after a long wait, the listing has not yet appeared, many investors have been stuck in their beliefs. So, seeking assurance, we should buy after being listed, at least we know what we are holding, it still has value, we can even buy at cheaper prices when I see most projects have the same status, the price listed is lower than ico

In this bear market that decision should depend on the situation of exchange listing.  In most ceases i believe in this market condition waiting until exchange listing is prefer. But there may be good ICOs that are doing great event on bear market. For that we should make more and more researches.

Now is a difficult time and the level of risk is really high, therefore it is better to skip the ICO stage and buy a ready-made coin that has already been on the exchange for some time and showed its worth

maybe this depends on the project. sometimes, truly promising projects are always finished with pre-sale, and enter the market at a high price. so, buying on the market can have an impact if you do target the product of the project. however, many people always wait when the project is listed on a market for several reasons. one of them is a dump.

If you want to make profit from ICO now its best to buy very popular ICOs so that you can earn better profit when get listed but if the ICO is not a very popular one its better to buy after its been listed on exchanges because there is a very high possibility that the value would have decreased a lot and dump will happened too

With the current market conditions most ICO investments are not profitable. After investing the team usually fail to list the coin on exchange for you to even sell and get your money back.

It’s probably better today to talk about refraining from investing in the past. It seems to me that investing today in ICO is of course a very serious item of expenditure. I hope that investment in projects will soon straighten out.

I think you don’t need to rush into investing in new projects. I think the market needs time to determine what the price of the token should be. If you buy a coin at the start, then you must be very careful.

If a project is realistic that has a working product then I can invest on it at the initial coin offering (ICO) stage as the chances of making gains in a situation like this will be higher than when the project has no working products. Gone are the days when I invest blindly. But I can say I am more experienced now.

From experience it is good to buy any coin when there are listed in the exchange as most of the coins are always cheaper during exchange than during icos.  I have see some projects during icos that has lose 99% in exchange and that means it is better to buy in exchange as the bounty hunters will be dumping them.

They are both investment strategies and according to recent happenings, buying from exchanges is more profitable especially if its a project that did airdrop and bounty. The airdrop participants dump tokens at cheaper prices after listing

This is the case ever since everybody found out that ICO projects are just overpriced and they ask for too much.

Buying at ICO will be more profitable because you will get a bonus that will increase income, but you have to do the right analysis before doing it. Many projects that have no use value when entering the stock exchange, the price becomes low and even goes to zero, so you must be careful in choosing projects if you choose ICO. Buying during an exchange will certainly be safer and will benefit if you are able to analyze market movements.

I think that depends on the potential of the ICO project. I often see that when ICO coins have entered the exchange market, prices immediately fall. Of course, this is the result of the many people who throw away ICO coins. So, you can buy ICO coins when you have entered the exchange market and wait for the coin price to decline.

I would wait for exchange. Too many uncertainties buying a ICO in this market. 

I think that it is definitely worth buying after a coin or token will be sold on the exchange, since investing in an ICO is very risky.

That's you if that becomes your responsibility to choose the best ico, you need to join in competition with others to find that, buy after ico already listed on exchange site is not always working right now especially when you were getting trapped by shitcoin.

In order to make such a decision, you should know the details of selling tokens at each of the ICO stages, and basically about the size of bonuses for each of the sales stages.
If the bonus at the first stage is very large, it is very likely that just after listing on the exchange, investors will want to fast get back their money with % of bonus. Usually when bonus is little price drop after listing is also little, or even price is growing. Unfortunatelly, but dumps are usually made by early investors with huge discounts and bonuses.

not all tokens or coins that have been entered at the exchange can have a good price, most nowadays when they enter the place where the price exchange falls and makes many investors lose, different when the project development is good and the team owned is very committed, it will make the price can be expensive.

and to have a good value in exchange is really tough at the moment. most of the ico projects failed to achieved their committed price. and for me, if you see a good project, better wait for it to hit in exchanges, you can get them really cheap because of the dumpers. believe me.  ;)

True, what you are saying is that there are very many ICO tokens that have prices below the ICO and the comparison is quite far, so it is better to buy it when the token is entered at the beginning of the market because many ICOs give very far prices at market prices.

Yes, there are lots of good projects but they have low prices when on the exchange market, and this is a good opportunity to buy at low prices in the exchange market, because they reduce the price of ICO prices because the price of Bitcoin is bad.

Yes!, it is a smart step to wait rather than to sell your coins which you are holding it now mate.
However, it is much good to choose to buy coins or token after being  exchanged, this was according to my
experienced comparing if you are buying coins during ico.

For sure the second option because besides ICOs that are being launched on Binance, every single coin is experiencing a dump after being listed on their first exchange. Just wait until this coin is listed and buy it for a much better price.

I trust the coin that has been on the stock exchange for a long time, especially now when the cryptocurrency is so weak, it is definitely not worth risking investing at the ICO stage

If you are patient and waiting, you will definitely buy that token at a much cheaper price. Do not try to join the ICO because you will regret it

There is a huge temptation to buy after the ICO, but if you remember 2017, immediately say that now there are so many projects with which you need to post it that way. I think it all depends on the project.

Actually I buy more often at ICO than in exchange. Of course there is more value when buying at ICO. Of course you will get a bonus by buying at ICO. Because if you buy in exchange there is certainly no bonus. It's just that, it often happens when already listing in the market of course the price drops below ico.

I agree with your opinion.
for now where the market is also bearish, it might be better to wait for an ICO to enter an exchanger and buy it there rather than buy when the ICO takes place.

I think this is a smart decision in the current market situation. All coins that go on the exchange are usually traded below the price of the ICO, it's a great time to buy them. In addition, you have a guarantee that you will be able to sell the coin and it already has some value.

I believe buying during ICO, so far as the project becomes successful, is the best. There are a lot of bonuses, some as huge as 50%, when you buy during ICO. The risk is though higher as compared to waiting and buying when it goes on exchanges.

Yes, definitely. Buying on ICO hasn't been profitable for some time, so it would be better to wait for the coins to be listed on exchanges. As many coins price have been significantly dropped after listing on exchanges for the past one year.

It all depends on the project, the more money is poured into it at the ICE stage, the higher the chances that its price will rise after the list. However, very few projects are capable of this now.

The best thing to do before is to buy at the ICO as they were promoting the sales and giving the best  bonus to investors.
But as of 2018, there were so many scam projects in the community which drive the community to its low.
AFter that even you invested to a legit one and once listed they fall due to market season. for me that is tha call for the buy out after listing for the best value and wait furthermore.
though we dont really know what will happen next!

Its depends on. You how much risk you can take and gully depends on the project where you really want to invest. The ico market is going not well so most of the time we saw that. When the coin hit the market always the price is less than the ico price. So for this reason if is a bit risky to invest in the ico.
But sometimea we saw some good project and most of them are give a lots of profit.for this kind of project I will suggest that buy at the ico time. So its depends on the project itself.

In recent market trends, I think it is a good practice to buy after coins are listed on an exchange because the price we see at the ICO and their presale or seed round periods are all fake. Fake in a sense that you are selling a coin at a price of 1$ with 100% bonus, this means in actual sense, the price is 0.5$ so it will never be listed at 1$. The best will be 0.1$ because most people have plenty tokens and if they set their orders and they are not filled at the time they want, they set them cheap to get out. So waiting patiently until coins are listed on an exchange before getting some should be a priority this time.

In my opinion buying coins in ico is no longer as profitable as the previous year because price of tokens will definitely be cheap when listing on market and I think if it's better to wait for coins listing in the market and buy more because price is very cheap

the fact that there is an exchange is that the price is actually cheaper and I really prefer to buy when I enter the exchange instead of investing when Iico because it is also at risk when they run away after Iico so I make more purchases after entering the market

Ico token buy is a very risky.You buy from binance ico coin it is a profitable.Also see lattoken token sale huge voluem coin.

No, the price will definitely decrease after the ICO ends and it is listed at the exchange. So please be patient and wait to buy them in exchange and hold, that's the best way for you to invest in ICO at the present time.

if you buy when ico is still running the risk is quite high if the ico doesn't work, but if it works then the profits you get will also be a lot. the safer you buy after being exchanged to the market because it has a small risk.

it is more profitable to buy on exchanges after the ICO, as a rule, the price falls very low, since tokens are sold by hunters for a very low price

Buy once it goes on the exchanges but only after a few days because the first few days when a coin hits the exchange it pumps for a period of time

Brother I've had too tell you..  buying from ico us bad new.. if its not private sales them don't buy it.. you'll loose your fund.. Wait till it's listed on exchange

buy after the exchange, you will not be mistaken, because during the ISO now the price is not real at all,after collecting the price stably adaet from 10-20 times,so there is no point in buying ISO,money in the empty just throw away,this is now a tough market,so if the money does not squeeze Corman,do not scatter in vain!

If that is a good project and has a potential in future,better buy after the Dump of the hunters and investors as it will give you big profit if you hold long term

But if you think that it is a pump and dump coin?then buy in ico and sell once it listed so instant profit,but the risk is there if you are late in selling before the dump

In my opinion, if we want to invest, it is better to buy coins at the ICO. because when the ICO period of each coin buyer gets a bonus and the price is affordable so that we can get a big profit.

Without any doubt after the token listing. If you have found a great project, you only need to wait for several months until they will get listed on their first exchange. There is always a beginning dump, where you can buy those tokens for a cheaper price.

That's right, now you can consider the most reasonable step for investors. This is primarily due to the fact that most new projects fall in price immediately after listing on the stock exchanges.

usually if you buy tokens when ICO, they will buy up to 50% bonus for each token that you buy, and that has become a profit for you.
but in reality almost all tokens will fall when listing on exchangers, and they fall very deep. so the best choice is to buy tokens when they enter the exchanger in a fall.

all calculations must be done and the worst possibility. after we know that ico itself is currently also a lot that is not in demand by people because a lot of fraud and actually get a loss

It is a smart step to buy the coin when it hit the exchange, but it will not get into the exchange or much less the project will become reality if investors will not support the project in their ICO stage, investors support is important in the ICO stage not in the exchange.

both have advantages. however, for those who are late in buying the ICO, they will wait for the exchanger, and wait for the dump. well, personally, I might prefer to wait when the coin is entered on an agent, but sometimes taking ICO has advantages that can be obtained.

Recently,  buying an ICO is not advisable in some projects. After listing ,the price dump more than the ICO price which I think it's a loss. Investors now wait for a token to be listed before investing and still get cheaper price than during ICO. but some projects,  pump more than the ICO price . So in my opinion, both tend to have a good advantage, but buying when listing is what I will choose.

today much ico projects using scheme buying coins/token in exchanges.and its look like attract much investor to buy it.they could buy and sell directly in market,so after they get profit or suffering loss could join in another projects.

It is necessary to select the project. Perspective can be bought on ICO. After listing on the stock exchange, usually the price falls.

Timing is very important, you have a good point as buying while pre ico up to the actual ico sales have a good bonuses, so when the coin got into the
market and be listed inside of of the exchange, chances that it will be dumped right away by those who have  a lots of coins came from this stage,
wise investors will cash out and take advantage each time opportunities open doors for them.

I think it is better to buy at exchange rather than participating an ICO,
At least once it is on exchange we could be sure that we could use it,
Not like in just ICO there is  a huge chance that it could turn to scam or don't get listed.

In my opinion better participating in bounty camaigns and then sold it on bear markets or hodl on bulls market.

Basically, there are really a lot of discounts at the pre ico stage.But that's not the point.The point is the lack of investor confidence in the ICO.Please note tokensale who carry out the exchange gathers a good amount.Ie investors trust exchanges.Based on the above, we can conclude that it is best to buy tokens on the pre-sale which is held by some large exchange.

This days on trading is much better to buy on exchangers because of low volume or low prices than the ico prices.
for example the price on oco os 0.1 and after exchanges you can buy tokens as low as 0.02 so look at the difference. buy on exchangers and hol till it pump.

Of course, this time is no longer too suitable for buying token in ico because the project may be unsuccessful or the value of the token can be reduced to a very low level when listed, so waiting for the token listed is the first thing we need to do at this stage. Next, we should clearly define that this is a potential and future project or a garbage project, not all projects can be purchased after being listed, I've seen many projects that have fallen forever and never come back, creating a shock for investors and traders.

I don't see why.
Only if it fancy project and you think price will increase after ICO.
Mostly price goes down, and not by little, it goes down 10 or hundred times down.
Investing or shorting in that period is not such bad idea.

I am observing from last one year and fully agreed with you that most all ICO's available much below their ICO price after listing on exchange and so. If anyone interested to buy new ICO coin then he has to buy it after listing.

It is a good idea when  we want to invest in a project but we do not fully trust it. I am also applying this but some projects do not have bounty programs . @@

I buy when it hit exchanged because some people will dump it lower than the ico price but i will not put money on project that is no good. I want to avoid my money getting drain in some token that has no future. It's like gambling when i do it. If the price will go up then i will win but if not i will lose.

It might have been" but now it's hard to gambles from the ICO just token and even if there is in the exchanges for it we still do not trust especially in other exchanges that the high fees will make it even more difficult for us to withdraw it, so it's better to be in the exchanges that we can guarantee the investments we released.

It depends on what period of time we are talking about, because it strongly depends on what trend is currently on the market. For example, in 2017 it was much more profitable to buy on ICO, because after listing on exchange most of the coins immediately began to rise in price, and many investors became rich at that time. Now the situation is completely opposite and most of the coins can be bought on the exchange at prices ten times lower than the ico price, because the market is predominantly bearish.