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I've been here for years and I can say that following the hype never works for investors, this is simply an advise.

Few examples: Synereo, Savedroid, Electroneum.

Even though these projects managed to get the money they needed and much more, they still didn't manage to deliver what they promised. Or in some cases, not even get listed in decent exchanges or give ROI back.

Cryptocurrencies are not going anywhere and there will be more and more ICOs until these things get regulated (maybe years from now). So If you're an investor and you don't want to stupidly lose your money in the process, I highly suggest everyone to start researching about the projects he's interested in instead of taking his decisions based on Tweets from McAfee, press releases, scores in Icobench, etc.

well,, maybe you are right,
but, most of people will follow the hype, because they think by ivesting in crypto with huge hype, they can make a profit in short period time my friend

that's my invest rules :)
I will never join project who hype because it's killing my money ;D
Savedroid is one of them

People always try to ride the wave and most people end up in loss only some of them are smart that know when to take profit for example in case of electroneum everyone was holding even the price hot 20 cents which means 20x profit from ico price but majority of the community still kept holding in hope of  1 dollar per etn i myself kept holding and sold later at around 2 cents but the point is smart people sold and took profit when it reacjed 15 to 20 cents price mark.

such a good suggestion, but its true, dont like to follow the hype, because if we follow the hype at the end of that moment, surely you will get a big loss, for example some coin in the first day of it hype was have a great potential to profit, and then you came at the 4 day of the hype and then somehow appear a bad news about that coin, and of course you will be regret in the end.

People always try what is in trend and always fall for the hype.
I have seen it before in trading most of the new traders who don't know how to read the graph only follow or buy what is being hype.
I know most of them think that they would profit from it by doing short trade but this could also make them lose their money.

I am really be chagrined the hype, by depositing some cryptocurrency or usd and per day can get 10% or more, such hype only lasts a few days, finally only fraud.

You can say that but greedy people will always be greedy, and they will always find newbies in crypto that they can fool thru their hype. There will always be newbies that they can play their pump and dump tricks.

Many investors in the space have invested due to huge hype that surround a project, it is a very wrong criteria in choosing an investment, hype is used to attract many investors of which the project in question can go under radar after raising of fund. That is why it's not good to invest based on what people tell you.

There are many more that could be added to that list.
This shows that extensive advertising may be able to get a lot of investor's attention but won't be able to achieve necessary success.
But again It also doesn't mean that coins with no hypes have better rate of giving ROI back or all of the hyped coins are a failure.
It's a bit of luck and a bit of skill in analyzing the information you have to decide which project are worth your money.

I mean there's nothing wrong following the hype, timing is everything. If you get inside prior to the mad rush then obviously, you can make a lot of profit. But buying them when they are already at it's peak then it's a wrong decision. Every coins went to the drain when we entered the bear market, so unless you sold off already, then that is fine. But if you are still hodling them, then you don't have a chose but to just hodl on it and wait for the market to bounce back.

This is true because there are many new participants in crypto. They do not know what to navigate. In addition, crypto has no long history, reliable, long-term basis. But the hype is always there.

You just say,your strategy  is so beautiful. Actually, whether old or new, the investor has to invest a lot of research, especially in case of currency.

My experience with the newly emerging hype project is very good to follow. Because in my opinion the process is still smooth. But if it's been long, it will be very vulnerable to follow. But it's better not to have that type if you don't have knowledge.

i both agree and disagree :D

you can't give out suggestions like this. the better suggestion is that you should know how to follow hype!
for example hype alone means nothing. people can shout the name of some shitcoin from the rooftops but as long as they are not buying that shitcoin themselves (no price or volume move) that hype means nothing.
but at the same time there are cases where a hype comes along (like a shitcoin being listed on a big exchange) it can be 100% meaningless hype but the market reacts to it (high volume and price) so following that hype is the most profitable thing you can do because you catch a pump in its early stage.

of course it is not as easy as catching it, you should also know when to dump it.

this is one of the main reasons why i never go for an ICO because you can't see if the hype is actually real or not since there is no market there is only illusions.

But the hype can come anytime and we must aware about that. these hypes just temporary and when the hype for each coin will end the next hype will happen to the another coin. This just like a pumpers.
People are so blindly to follow the hype and put big expectation to that hype.

I think there will not be so much ICOs as was, because now i think will be more IEOs, but i also made research before to invest because i not want to lose money and i only invest more on coins and not on ICOs.

Since the altcoin market has become some sort of a "gamble" to many people looking to make quick profits from shitcons, I believe that if you don't follow the hype, you might be missing out potential profits.

If you can spot the hype early on, you might be one of the early adopters of X or Y coin, buy cheap and just expect the hype to attract newcomers that will pump the price so that you sell at a high price. Then again, you have to be extremely careful, you don't want to follow the hype only to find out later that you're too late to make decent profits. It's all a gamble, high risk, high reward.

Hey now electroneum is sweet :P
idk how its like rank 100 on cmc when it has a silly phone distro like it does and about zero actual use case
good example of how marketcap is not REALLY accurate to a projects usefulness haha

In my opinion this is a very good warning for all of us, personally I don't really know the details with some of the projects offered, so with this caveat I've become very careful

Pioneers in the crypto industry and experienced investors don't fall for the hype and all the noise that are made about some projects. They really look beyond all the nice content and tweets that are made about some of these ICOs. They take a look at the use case of the project and the token economics of the project and also how the team plans to bring real value to their project. These are some of the landmarks that any investor should be looking at and not all the unecessary hypes that are made about some shit projects.

Those projects I think has failed. It's not they are scam, but because they are bankrupt. Yeah, they are very good at marketing and the idea was not really bad and that is why so many people invested on those project. So what's wrong? They are probably not able to manage their funds properly and the funds they have has lost in the bear market and are not able to continue the development. They might have a good marketing manager but, they are simply don't have a good budget / financial manager.

That's the importance of having enough knowledge about trading and investing upon entering the crypto world.
Most of the traders nowadays invest based on what they see and what they hear in trend but that I think is a wrong move.
We should have our own disposition because sometimes, the hype is also deceiving.

Well said and very straight forward for the ear that cares to listen. Many projects without focus are being hyped and many fall victim to this. Research is the best way and also following one's heart.

Fuss never leads to anything good. Money loves silence. Therefore, all projects where you can earn at the stage of cheap prices are good for investing - you will never hear about them in the press.

Smart people understand that the hype is sometimes created specifically to draw attention to the product. When people see that the coin has many buyers, they stop thinking and run to buy this coin at any price. However, if they thought and studied the project, they would understand that there are no prospects in it.
This is how the naive investors are usually deceived.

One's peace must be built very well when the hype is happening by not making a rushed purchase at any price, indeed the market is very difficult to predict but it's good to know the hype of what happened to make the market pump fast, but everyone is very difficult to be shaped like that and moreover they have their own formulas in dealing with such markets, only suggesting as much as possible to remain calm without being in a hurry to make a decision.

I never follow the HYPE and there is no chance to be part of the successful traders who made this HYPE. Only newbie traders believe in these stories and they fail for this reason.

For quick profits, I suggest you follow the hype right away because that where the x20,  x50, x100 lies. But for a long term investment, them more of product evaluation should be done to make a better decision

Yah, you can that again about the bolded. The coins performed abysmally, way beyond expectations. Now taking about not believing in hypes, I think that isn't entirely correct. Bitcoin got that much publicity it did in 2017 because of hype. A lot of people invested in 2017 without even knowing what Bitcoin was. The hype got their interest.

I really agree with this topic of discussion,so many project are being hype so that investor can put in their money giving so many promises and at end they can't even deliver,it's really a point to take note before investing, research is really required.

yes you're right, following the hype will only make you fail. there have been many incidents like this in the past, so it's all a reminder. Don't believe in the hype, you have to verify before making your choice. it's up to what people say, if you think it's bad don't follow it.

Following the hype is a bad way to invest in cryptocurrencies or other form of investments. We should understand that cryptocurrencies market is all about hype and that is the major reason some of us advocate that we should invest the money we can afford to lose. 

The biggest problem in crypto is projects doesn't deliver. They are giving empty promises, taking lots of money and when it is time to deliver, nothing.

It is human nature. We also follow the hype, we join the advertised projects, and sincerely believe that if we do it, the rich and wealthy life will come. It is not easy not to pay attention to this stuff.

Ah, in other words, DYOR or "Do Your Own Research." Most crypto people on Twitter hype a coin because of financial consideration." They maybe holding a lot of coins or they are paid to shill. In any case, there is always a deliberate purpose on why they sent out a tweet. If, no then Twitter is a waste of time.

There's saying that "High risk, high return". Regarding trading, when people get hyped about a coin, its price can increase quickly. If one can choose the right time to buy and don't be greedy, he can get a quick profit easily. Also, crowd's hype on IEO trend recently has brought a lot of people a profit of 2x, 3x or even 7x.

In the cryptocurrency market, there are now a very large number of deceptive projects that can lead to zero investment.
Now it is very important to carefully study the project before taking part in it, to learn as much as possible about the developers.
This will help you avoid failure.

Follow your heart in choosing, selling and even buying a coin, don't be easily influenced by anything that can make you turn directions because I think following your heart is one of the things that makes you feel satisfied in investing.

I believe that everything is in your hands.  And any failure or mistake is another life lesson in cryptocurrency.  So with each lesson you will be more and more not need to be afraid to make a mistake.

Before I start participating in a project, I try to understand its future prospects very well.
If it makes sense to participate in it and I can make a profit, I become participants.
Definitely with the experience gained, choosing the right project will be all the easier.

Very true its always better to do research always before investing in any projects back in 2017 there was huge ICO hype was going on & investors were investing money blindly in hope of 10X, 20X returns. A lot of fake & scammy projects created hype with strong promotion with so called experts & influencers from YouTube but where are this experts now? They did not cared their followers & deceived followers, this so called experts used to get their share in the form of ETH or BTC to create hypes. Now the trends have be changed in 2019 which looks more investor friendly i.e IEO on platforms like Binance Launchpad, Okex, Gate, Huobi Prime, Bitrex etc, in which exchange have to cross check projects credibility before launching on their platforms else community members, followers or investors will make questions on credibility of the exchange.

Greedy will make it irresistible. When a project does an ICO and offers huge discount for early investors, it will always look like there are more users investing on it because they collect a lot of BTC the first day of Pre-ICO. For someone who wants to profit like a pro, their eyes will open widely with the dollar sign on it. Electroneum I think is doing good tough as far as I know its price is more than its ICO price.

It is unfortunate we cant do without hype in the world of crypto. I believe people or investors usually  follow whatever is trending. I always advise my people in my local  crypto community to research carefully before investing their hard earned money in it.

Sometimes the hype can make you give many benefits and vice versa. Well, actually it all depends on your luck "maybe", some of us get profit from a hype.
But I am the one who doesn't like the hype situation lol , so I really agree with your post. and McAfee is just bullshit, this person just wants to get public attention.
Research cannot be a determination of success, like research information from icobench, ico trust, icorates, or any kind.

My take on the above topic is that most of the investors in crypto world invest solely because of hype of a project. Therefore some people prefer to invest for quick profit rather than long term profit.

I feel otherwise; it is good to follow the hype but in a very positive manner

You can buy the the rumour; then patiently sell the hypes but only if you can dyor and get strategic decisions right

The hype is created on purpose. It is thanks to the excitement in the projects attract a large number of investors who may later regret it.
I already participated so recently in Gate.io succumbed to the hype and bought their tokens. Now about this very much regret.

Follow the hype and see yourself stuck at a crossroads where you will regret it but hee not all hype are that bad but any project with that much hype I stay very clear off

One of the guidelines I suggest is, if a project is in seed stage, they should not be asking for too much money. Anything more than 10 million is alarming. Check the founders, if they are real, you can find their previous history on Google, not just some link they provided. Check their credibility of building businesses. Some common sense things that we miss out.

What else we can do ? almost all of the hype also brings more profit. it's just that we have to begin to realize "when we join in the hype" is it still early or it's too late. if it's too late it's better to skip it.

following the hype is important, without the hype there is no speculation, without speculation there will be no dump or pump. but don't be a fool, always verify before making a choice. those who fail because they follow the hype just because they believe the words of others are very stupid people.

savedroid and electroneum truly went awol after their hypes
Electroneum is now able to load up mobile airtime’s in South Africa

The best solution; is to cash out before the hypes reach its peak
To find out when the hypes get high or low; dyor

i don't believe the hype. it's very risky. even more risky than an investment with an indication of a scam. the hype always gives us attractive offers at first. but finally the hype hurt everyone. if crypto is protected by regulation, I think, the Hype never make a victim.

I agree with you, the hype is only used for those who want instant benefits. many people are trapped in the hype and they lose a lot of their money.

Good projects are limited now so its hard to look for it. If the hype is new on a listed coin then its ok to follow it but if its already dying then better to leave that market as much as possible, FOMO when its pumping is risky, try not to get involved into this one, and don’t let your emotion make a decision for you.

The problem isn't from following the hype or not but the thing that makes you sure to invest in a project and do it at the right time.
Following the hype doesn't guarantee getting a lot of profit or even losing your money

In this industry, one has to make informed decisions by following and keeping tabs on projects as well as happenings in the industry. Sometimes, it pays to follow the hype but most times, it doesn't. People may hype a project simply because of promises made by developers other times, they could be misled by hypes of those who claim to know the workings underneath a project. My advice is to always look at a project for what it can offer and the solutions it presents. If solid, then most likely, such projects should do well in the long run. Always do your own research about every project you intend to join and only risk an amount you can afford to lose.

Hypes are just marketing strategies developed by project managers just to get the attention of the general public into investing into their project. People who follow hypes and invest without researching and finding enough information about the project run at their own risk of losing their investment capital.  Sometimes I get surprised when people just jump into investing in projects due to hypes made by people who have already made their profits out of the project.

Then what about projects or coins that have always shown good progress and made it hype? they succeeded until now so isn't it following the hype also sometimes good and profitable?
although it's not 100% good but you can't say that following the hype is bad and wrong.
we have to judge as a whole not only give a bad example but also have to consider other projects

Hypes don't make us good investors as they are just to deceived us and end up losers. I suggest that we should avoid hypes as much as possible because it will only ruin our investments. Learn to make deep research on the projects you want to invest so that you will not end up regretting.

I am agree. Hypes just makes us more interesting on the project and lossing our money. Better invest on coin for long term and already had a working product. Most hypes coin are pump and dump coin and i dont think it will survive for long term.

whose name is a new coin, it's not certain its success and hype is not a good thing. it's better to keep investing in coins that already have good future prospects such as etherum, ripple, and others.

taking HYPE is indeed not a good decision,
because I have experienced it, hype is just an opinion that happens to be followed by many people,
but that doesn't mean it's really good,
I suggest that it is better to play it safe if you are one of the beginner investors, by choosing coins like the list in cmc and having a rank of the top 20 in cmc.

Hype which others refer to as the "signal" has emerged out to be another strategy for making profit in crypto. There are some groups of influencers capable of creating massive hypes of a coin after given a signal in a channel with large number of followers. This normally lead to FOMO which raises the buy orders against the sell orders hence a rise in price for that coin.
One important thing is that, these hypes or signals are short-lived hence followers or investors who intend to use this strategy must be very cautious in order not to buy at the peak. It is always good to be among the first investors to buy when the price is still low and remember not to be too greedy to hold for long.

You are right pal and you caught me in the act. I do have ETN too and I am really at great loss now. Before investing to it I really studied it though and I never join just because it has a lot of fans before but by their promises also and I admit I got deceived man and it really hurts. Hoping I can learn from my mistakes now and recover my losses.  :-\

For long term, hype is not the best time to invest, but in short term, it is a very good practice to earn profits on the waves of hype and then fix it in some stable coin. But if you buy coins on hype, especially if you feel FOMO, you can stay hodler and freeze your funds.

As real investor, they wouldn't follow hype. They will create hype to make profit for them.  ;D That is what make difference between old investor and newcomer investor. And when that newcomer investor loss in a project, they wouldn't do anything beside blame developer for it.

Depend on the place that you use to put your money, you still can hold for long term investment if there is come a crash. Such as bitcoin, I guess many people who snare when he came at hype in 2017 ago. But they still have a chance to hold bitcoin until the price come back to $20.000 again, compared they decide to sell when loss situation. But for the other place like altcoin which is considered as shitcoin I don't think this is a good way to still hold.

What? I'm not sure about savedroid or synero but electroneum? May question is do you invest in etn ICO? I guess not ,well here is the answer etn has ROI in the past after there ICO ,believe I was there when it happened

A good investor will sell the tokens when the hype come, because when the hype strike, it will makes the price of that token increase so high. That is the best time to sell the tokens and get so much profit. Hyped token like that is not good for long term, when the hype down, the price will fall.

Anyway it depends on how you see it and how smart you are. The art of hyping a project is an avenue to make money but the most important thing is to know when to sell out and buy it at the dip if you desire to keep it for long-term.

its for only the people who can do alot of research themselves and make their personal decisions that wont follow hype. thats the only way to avoid losing money unecessarily because of other people's call and selfishness.

It has a chance but we have no ETA. that means all of these things are still speculation only. as a small holders and we can't play a lot at this market. it will be always a horrible thing to hold shitcoin because it has not future. The hype of altcoin depends on bitcoin. Bitcoin will be so difficult to break another ath again.

Avoid getting attracted by those shillers, yes! don't get FOMO'd, just always do your own research, if you find some coins on going uptrend in the market just look if they have announced some good news for the price to go up or else this is just probably in most cases are just bubble waiting to get popped.

We cannot unto others if they follow the hype because thats the way they live in crypto the way to invest in such a ICO's project or an altcoins. In these way some get profits and some were not. I guess its also depend upon our luck no matter how strategy we used here crypto.

I don’t understand this but I know every project needs hype to be a big hit
Either small or big

What matters is smartness; follow the hype and get out when it’s profitable

I have left with hype project because I think is not fear and good way how to earn money with investment kind, many people have lost their assets after joining hype and always get bad thing with lost their assets.

Although this is only one of the marketing strategies I do not like the marketing strategy. because what I know is that this marketing strategy is very risky.
therefore I am still on the principle that I am not interested in hype

No dear, the reason why people are following the hype is not just because they can make profit of it that shallow thinking. If we are going to think about it, we can say, we should follow the hype because others are doing it so, and that is what makes it important, we should go whenever there are large markets, and through that, we have the assurance of profit.

Yes, you are right. I agree with that. Searching of what caused the price is up will be better than to follow the fake news because that could be a nice trap for people who will not do their own research.
Many of us still follow the hype as they think that something going on with the project, so they don't want to be late to buy but the fact is the increasing or decreasing of the price is not because of the news, but it's because something else that happens to the project.

That is very true. So many projects who got the hype from many crypto enthusiasts ended up disappointing their investors. Consider the idea behind the project and not just what people are saying

It's hard to say. Advertising helps develop the project. You, too, will not follow a project that even documents cannot prepare. Too small projects today can give us a good profit. Only real projects with a good idea and a prototype deserve attention. Even if corrupt experts rate the project too low. If you like the idea and the documents are in order. Join him.

As a matter of fact you are not supose to invest in an already green market or a coin that is already pumping. When there is hyoe on a particular coin wait for correction for buying to avoid buying at the peak price

If you are telling people not to follow hype you are simply telling them not to follow which coins or tokens that is presently trending ,that's impossible ,hype is part of crypto process ,hype works for me in the past and I don't regret invested in the coin

That is something a good investor should take into consideration. I know those projects that you have mentioned and simply they are fond of promoting it to large scale audience. People should learn from mistake if they have invested with those projects. Not only those, but many more and future project. Dont trust an ICO/IEO that says they will be a successful project later on. On what basis does they are getting their assurance?

OMG, if those people never learn, then scammers will be happy to robbed you!

Exactly!!! One has to be extra cautious about buying into any project. Matters arising lately even warrants one being extra wise to help one from falling into wrong hands.

The crypto market now looks like nothing positive will happen if you do not hype a project. So even the good and promising projects are compelled to follow the way of hyping. Hyping a project is only for short term and at the end of the day, the project will be tested and overthrown if it fails to perform well in the market. One of the best ways to avoid hyping a project is do not follow a project blindly. Research yourself, read a project whitepaper before investing.

Hype is sometimes profitable and harmful. If we follow their program since the first launch, I suggest, just follow it for 1-2 months. Then after that you come out. And remember not to invest in large amounts, because the risk will be even greater.

If you have good experience riding with mooning coins and you know how to limit your target profits or target risk, you can ride and take full
responsibilities if whatever it takes, result oriented traders sometimes also take some risk with mooning projects and take some pieces of profits.

I completely agree with you. Site icobench I advise you to remove it from your bookmarks, there is a selling rating system. Let's see how many scam projects have high ratings on this site. Just do not listen and do not read Ian Balina, it is corrupt.

almost no one has time to get out of the HYIP. because only the organizators of the HYIP know when to go and when not to

Any investors that derive interest in following hype will eventually end up in bit looses. Some years back i do go after hype, until i lost a very huge sum of money in the process, the sum of $410 was lost to hype in 2017 and i regretted my actions. As investor, ensure you follow the market trend and be more caution of the pump and dump that's involve.

Once you follow the hype it means you are one of the greedy people here who wants to earn quickly here.
In earnings big here in crypto trading is not that easy to achieve, this is most of the time happened for the newbies.
Where most of the old members here in the forum always reminded them to be careful in investing into project ico
here in the forum.

It seems to me that many beginning investors have already understood this idea, because the hyip is being done solely in order for the masses of people to start using this news and, for example, invest, in these moments you need to do the opposite.

The hype can have fatal consequences for newcomers and those who are exposed to the hype and have not previously appreciated the project as such. Of course, this does not apply to those who are seriously exploring the possibilities of projects and are consciously involved in the hype, having precisely defined for themselves the real moment of getting out of it all.

The advice, of course, is good. However, people will still make their decision to invest in ICO projects, largely based on forecasts and estimates of famous sites and influential people. Cryptocurrency is still a relatively young type of financial relations in society and constantly attracts new participants. New people will make the same mistakes for a long time. As a rule, for some reason everyone learns from their own, and not from others' mistakes.

As long you follow the hype just for selling it with a higher price later, it is ok.
But if you buying the hype coin to investing, i don't think it is a good idea, although few of them are good.
We should sell the coin if we see the the hype time is over to avoid losses.

Buy at rumors, sell at news. Maybe that is really fit for investor because they will sell when news and hype come. And other people who get fomo or maybe hyped will jump into trap and then stuck in a coin that get pumped then dumped.

instead of taking his decisions based on Tweets from McAfee, press releases, scores in Icobench, etc.
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you are right, those list that has you written it can't ever be trusted Like icobench example, many scam ICO'S are listed and got high score in there.
doing research by own self is better, you will never get any disappointment on it. this is can be applied on trade as well.

Hm, you can remember the situation with Bitcoin in 2017. It was hype. People, who followed it (but were enough smart to sell BTC in time) managed to make a lot of money. However, hype can be harmful

Yes indeed. There are many projects that did not meet the expectations of investors. As a rule, this is due to the incompetence of the project team. But at the same time, there are coins that showed themselves very well, and now have fallen in price due to bearish sentiment in the market.

Yes dude youre absolutely right. ICOs are keep on coming until it is regulated. We all experienced that in the past few years. We didnt get any benefits from those ICOs. Well aside from the bounties. But lets be honest here have you seen an ICO that is world reknowned and used by lots of people around the globe? ICOs as of these moment are very good when it comes on taking the mainstream.

I think at this time a case like this is already known by many investors, and now investors are more careful when they want to enter the world of hype because it's too terrible.

They still taking the risk checking for some chances that might bring them, they are still looking for any instances that can give them some benefits, be careful following if you don't have enough knowledge and good assumptions, you can lose everything from the hype of this market.

projects also very often cannot satisfy the expectations of investors because investors themselves sell coins due to panic and many projects run out of funding. There are a lot of factors and we all now just cannot evaluate and learn them if we haven’t made our own project.

The risk that we will get is quite large but indeed the potential benefits are also large. my advice when indeed we want to invest in a system that is still new and potentially this is not a problem because of course there are still many who will emulate it later. like the current IEO trend which initially was very profitable but now more and more are doing the IEO

i agree.. don't follow the hype..you will loss your money.. some of the crypto project are on hype so they can attract investors  ;D

Do not always trust advertising.  The best of all is to make sure that the project is good.  Not to fail and read the documents about the project.  This is the safest investment option.

hypes - it good chance to have profit, but it very dangerous, need to buy and sell very quicly and catch profit, but need to have good intuition

You have said it all and there is no two ways about it. This is just the truth and nothing more. I don't think I have seen any project with hype that either delivered what was promised, list on good exchange or offer a good ROI. All are just a quicker way to what the want. It is high time we start looking beyond hype and start focusing on what the team is offering and whether they are capable of fulfilling their promises.

Very well said, it is wrong to invest into a project because of the hype, you need to do a research about the project to see if there is more to it than just the shouting of the project name. A good project might also be hyped, same as a project that won't succeed, so research is the main thing in this space.

Yep, agree with you. Hype is one of the deadliest thing in this market. And most of the people who don't know about this market properly is the easiest target of hype. The newcomers mainly influenced by someone or something and when they enter the market start to invest in hyped coin or mainly in hyped ICOs and thought that they will be rich over night. But most of time this hyped project go down and investors are in lose. So I always suggest that always go for knowledge and after gathering some basic knowledge then go for investment. So what ever you are old or new to this market, always do some research and then go for the investment.

I made a lot of money off of Electroneum.

The trick is to be able to identify hyped up projects objectively.
Hyped up projects offer tremendous opportunites for a quick flip.
For something like electroneum, I was able to get in on the presale.
I then sold it the day it hit the exchange for a 800% profit.

Granted, nowadays flips like that are very difficult.
There isn't enough trading volume going around to support that kind of crazy demand.
Also, the ico bubble is pretty much burst.

but we have a bit of an IEO mania lately and once again, there are opportunties for those shooting for a quick flip.

Each time I hear don't follow the hype, I still think there is something more to know about knowing a good project to invest on. Most times we don't know this project owners one on one but from information we read from media, news about the team and the project and this basic information helps in building FA which eventually leads to hype. Then hype can either bring profit or loss

 :D Why If you do not work with good projects with normal advertising risks more. The fact is that it is not known whether such projects will raise money at all.

This idea was the best what I have heard on pump at the end of 2017, but I have followed fomo and greed. I swears to go against the hype that will follow next one or two years.

HYIP is not always a bad thing. HYIP is a moment in which you can really take big steps forward. This can be done now and at such times it is best to take such steps with great confident actions.

I would say the same but with a little bit of twist. Follow the hype as soon as it begins but jump out of the hype before it's too late. The first ones to enter the hype are the ones that actually are able to make the profit assuming the exited during the right moment. If a hype has been going no for a several weeks, then you can almost be certain that you are too late to join it and avoiding it is the best thing you can do!

I never trust hypes they are nothing but time wasters. I hate them so much that even if some hype paid successfully I am still gonna untrust them, investing your time and money into a hype basically means you are trading your time with a devil and he is surely going to scam you(what can you expect from a devil huh). I have never seen a good hype site in like my entire period from 2011 to 2019. so it will be a big no from me.

The topic is more suitable for new investors. In my opinion, anyone who has experience in investing will not be scattered about money to the right and to the left. One of the main rules of profitable investment is the selection of good projects. Actually the selection by itself and implies a complete analysis and study of all the nuances.

Hyped projects does not guarantee it success so don't fall for those pranks. For all you will know the hype is from within and just going viral with it. Always go for the real and serious project with clear and attainable visions. Most project don't really deserve their current hype.

It is always necessary to select projects as there is a lot of swindle now in the market , but I think it is possible to invest in ieo as the sensation very big goes

I really like the opinion on doing your own research rather depending on ICO rating sites to make investment. Investment is a calculated risk by an investor who has time to research into whatever project he or she feels safe to invest in based on the analysis he or she made out of the research and cannot blame anyone for his loss whatsoever happens.

Right from the onset, those who find hype very much useful , are traders and perhaps those who intend investing for short term gain. Then it does not  work well as it used to, although it cannot be totally avoided, except you choose not to invest in any project. The only is for us to be careful.

I am agree, many coin or token are pump and dump. Long term investment is wise decision because we are investing on the technology and the project. If the project success and used by peoples, i am believe the price will following and keep increase. But we should research to find good project because there is more than 2000 token in market

We can follow hype but follow it smartly, everything has its good side and its bad side, same as hype, some people followed hype in that 2017 and was lucky, while some followed hype blindly, and they got burned. Bitcoin is even worth following its hype when it has not gotten to the pick.

For other coins too, some people are too smart to follow hype, using some shitcoins as example, I have traded some shitcoins and made money, I already knew about their strategy and I didn’t just invested in them immediately, once they enter exchange, I wait to see hype start reflecting on the market, I make move to buy, then in the middle of the hype, I dump the coins, while some people will follow the hype to the end till they lose out completely.

I for one dont like to pursue the hype, in such a case that we pursue the hype toward investments, unquestionably you will get a major misfortune, for instance some coins in its primary day hype was have an incredible potential to benefit, and after that you came at the multi day of the promotion and after that some way or another show up an awful news about that coin, and obviously you will be disappointment at last.
Some Individuals dependably endeavor to ride the wave and a great many people end up in misfortune just some of them are smart that realize when to take benefit.
I prefer to follow my own investment strategy of researching first before investing

in fact taking the moment must be more observant because we know that now there are so many disappointing investments. we ourselves have to be more careful in that matter so we can speculate to be able to get a profit beforehand. research as you say.

I think that following the hype is neither a bad thing nor a good thing. Before investing in a project try to dig deeper. What was the hype about and whether it is worth joining. Weigh your decisions. Similar with playing games (https://vegascasino.io/casino/video-slots/wild-pixies?utm_source=ccwp) think of the stakes and possible profits. Because if not, you will only suffer losses. Do not forget that the goal is to earn and for you to earn, you must be wise in your decisions.

This is the best post am reading today which highlighted practical examples. I think developers and project team should stop giving false hope to investors by offering what they don't have or what they can't offer. But that will still continue until proper regulation is put in place.

You are absolutely right about the current situation on hyped up projects.
Sometimes I feel like it's the strategy of the project marketing team to create hype and thus to attract more investors. Due to use of all kinds of social media campaigns, creating hype is simple. Once investors invest money in the project, after certain duration he or she realizes that the project is not worth to the extent the hype was created.
So investors should be very careful with selecting the genuine project by researching more about it.
Also not to invest whole money into single project.

I think at this time the development of ICO is not too good anymore because currently many projects are scam or fail, but now there is an IEO that helps to offer tokens that can provide benefits and can help avoid scam platforms.

I myself have not dared to try to follow the hype because some of my people saw a loss, the most deadly example of loss was when there were a lot of airdrop ignis and unlimited bitcoin events my friends suffered losses even reaching 50% more for BTU for now it looks like now 100% scam

but sometimes being careful also makes us too late to get a moment either because we are too afraid to take decisions.
so I think whatever we do as long as it's from each of us is not something bad.

I agree with you, you always need to think and make decisions yourself. But many do not want to do so and so they decide to trust different sources, often it ends badly.

Yes you are right. But we all know most of the people in this forum.
But maybe most of them will start to understand at one point that it's not good to follow the hype. But main problem is newcomers in this ecosystem. Most of then don't want to know this area, they think that they will put some money and will be rich overnight. And they always follow the hype , whatever anyone want to show them they saw it and think that would be easy money for them. But is this market only one thing matters that is knowledge. If you don't go for the hype or fud instead of you start research on what you invest in.

Most times it dosent really end well for people who invest in over Hyip project especially newbies or people that are led by so called masters or experts in the field. Hyip is just a tool to get investors and it dosent make a project successful so people need to watchful.

Hype sometimes works well, most especially when participating in bounties projects,  but sometimes it fails drastically. It has the advantages and its disadvantages though. You can be 100% right about hype some projects and can also be wrong,  while some investors loose to some projects due to the hype.

The premise of the OPs post is true most of the time, but there are some exceptions (as always). Like the "hype" about Antshares (NEO) back in 2017, OmiseGo and some others. People said not to hop on the train on the top of the pump, it will consolidate for 50%, but it just continued to go higher and higher. But those instances are rare to find.

With Crypto have come to understand that when you follow the hype most at times it leads you to your doom but not  with all project, some of them still turns out great but you see that project that was hardly  hyped or talked about it always comes out amazing

There's no investor, grounded in crypto activities that will follow hype. I did that when I first joined crypto and it was a terrible experience. Well, some people still do follow hyped projects u toll they learn.

Hype comes and goes and sometimes it's worth following it. A good example is bitcoin SV. If you did not ignore it and sold it soon after the fork there was a lot of money to be made. Now it's worth less and less so with every coin you have to try to be smarter than the rest but not ignore the hype just be realistic about it.

A realistic trader buys the hype but knows when to sell.

The way hype worked in the past, is different from his it is working now.
You must understand the nature of the market before you would understand the system if the new form of hype.
It still works, but you have to learn how it works. Although, it is better to stay off it when you don't have the understand and than follow it and lose.

Majority of the hyped project don't return profit on investment and makes investors even lose initial capital for investment and a good example of such ICO is savedroid as mentioned above, it is so hyped as a German ICO, it's CEO Yasin initially ran with the raised fund and later come back saying it is publicity stunt joking with over 50 million dollars. Investors should be able to do research and don't follow the hype by some people on twitter or ICO rating sites

Most times after the hype is a fall and full of regrets its not bad to hype a project if it has good qualities but still on the other end what if its a failed project what is its a scam and you are a part of it because it was hyped. Then end point is examine thoroghly if the project is worth the hype thanks

Best things happens when you follow your research and guts Hype just makes panic and at the end of the day you might either be lucky or it just pans out and you mostly dont accomplish anything apart from losing money Electroneum actually disappointed me most But still sometimes just learn your lesson and then move on

You carefully stated it all; as it stands now any investor or individual going after hyped projects is only risking his funds, as most of the time if not all times, they don't deliver and only comes up with unwarranted excuses to cover up their incompetencies.

This is a good advice I was one of the savedroid victims, doing research about the project you find interest to invest on will put you and your funds on a safer side in the cryptosystem or even outside crypto jumping into what you knows you knows about about just because of hype always lead to failure and regret to avoid all this try to carry out research you can even ask for opinion here in the forum.

You are right but just look at all the coins that have been released since that time and you will find that most success stories are an exception and not the rule, someone investing in the top 20 coins does not have that kind of worry since as soon as one of the coins drops out of the top 20 he just begins to trade the coin that it took its place, maybe the coin that dropped will comeback and he will trade it again or maybe it disappears but he does not care about it, so he gets some of the benefits of trading new coins but none of the risks since it is impossible he is going to hold his position in a coin until it disappears.

But there's what i called short term success; this can only happen when there's hype. This follow of hype has single handedly yielded me with almost 200X and at that time i make mush profit. Although there's tendencies that not all hype you will be proud of when success is to be recall with. Hype can cause a gain and also cause a loose.

Yep you are very right we have seen this many times if there is big hype then nothing more we can expect from it ,real projects do their work and show it step by step and if there is hype then team want to sell and go , anyway all this time I have seen this only and nothing more.

Sometimes, we come up with a loss in our decisions on what to invest but of course riding the hype while it's fresh has a positive impact on our money. However, just like what you said that some of the projects does not meet what they promised in the first place. So for instances like this, we should consider another option and invest on coins which is already in thearket and avoid ICO projects instead.

Well, it is also true that most people follow the hype. In the bear market, most people have been losing money by investing in ICOs, so i would recommend not to invest in ICOs, until the market goes in upward trend.

Following the hype and rumours to invest into any project might lead you into a big loss. Do your own due diligence and get some information about the project and the use case it intends to bring on board before supporting with your money because we have seen seemingly great project fade away like a fog.

it is interesting indeed to analyze a further step of new tokens because by participating the hype is very large the risk is sent without us analyzing it first, having many cases issued and many investors who increase big follow it but there are also many who can benefit. so it all depends on ourselves in making decisions, on the other hand, there are those who say that following the hype is bad but in one too many say that following the hype will be able to get big profits, only we want to believe which and most important to always analyze yourself more carefully to get a good project.

Well I know most people follow the hype but must be careful because following the hype and rumours might cause you a great loss. Don't follow the mass.

Its the truth. Following the hype has caused people to lose their monies in cryptocurrency. You need to take a critical look at a coin if you want to invest than just following the crowd.

Third sources are not working for me. My personality pushes my emotions for blaming others who have effort in case of loss,so better to think based on my previous experience. The hype is good to drive the emotions till getting the best result from participants of the project but it doesn't work on a bear market, unfortunately. ROI was good motivation to be part of investor room a year ago but it is not the real case this year.

Of a truth anyone within this space still following hype projects needs proper attention. The days of hyped projects is gone, now is the era of potential projects with use case or working products.

Its quite interesting to analyse some coins and realise that they aren't worth it despite the hype or rumours about that particular coin. Following the hype may divert your attention from potential coins to other coins which aren't worthy. Hence you need to be extra careful in cryptocurrency and learn more.

Now there are days of projects that can develop in a bear market. if the project was able to go through this difficult year - most likely it has a future

I agree with you. You should invest on coins you really want, not to the coin thats on hype. Sometimes, those people who hyped the coins are paid to do it then later on we see that the coin will not be successful in the end. You should think based on your own decision and not the decision of the others.

I no longer believe in such a system because it never gives us benefits unless we are the main holder, it seems that many projects fail so that in the future we really need very accurate analysis not to get into the wrong project because with that error we can lose free money.

Hype projects have never pay not now nor ever. This is because, from experience hyped projects ends to go for the money and once gotten dumps the platform. I hardly can say I have seen a hyped project that did well or doing well.

Hype has always make many investors lose their money in projects they invest. One thing about hyped projects is that they offers little or nothing and once ICO ends, the true colour of the project will surface. It is necessary to stop going for hype rather investing in project whose team is working hard to deliver.

I think hype has died down in crypto world. it's not as strong as it was in 2017, where most newbies fell for the traps of hypes and lost money in the process. People are now wiser and tend to do more research before any investment move.

But the hype will always there, whatever you said but it's moving to the a new thing like from ICO to the IEO. Hype can be created by anything that related to the development of even instant listing on the major exchange site. It can't be erased from the world because people are still betting on the crypto.

Yeah! Unnecessary hype kills projects. Many of them are all around us. The team make money and end up leaving the project or leaving everyone to be REKT. Nevertheless I think 2017 bull market was a season for all if us to take lessons! Things are changing now and projects are somehow becoming more legit and working harder than before, and I think that's good.

I think you can say that because you know, they will definitely get new crypto prey to be eaten through the hype program they run, for those who are hungry to destroy will always be hungry and greedy.

Fortunately, after a sad period of bear market, where the vast majority lost up to 90-95% of their investments, we have all learned to be more analytical when choosing where to invest our money, since it has been demonstrated that the ICOs (and now the IEOs) were only business for lucky few, but a great failure for the majority.

And in fact, this caution must be applied to all matters related not only to the crypto-universe, but to all kinds of online investments, where there have always been plenty of people willing to take away our money.

Good advice its true some project have nice and a lot of beuatiful promisis from thr roadmap and whitepaper so interesting but its right to avoid losing money study and investigate well the project.

Regarding to the hype this trend will easy to convince people investing in crypto example of this is way 2017 ath. The lesson is do not llisten and follow to expert just research your own make decision for ourselves.

why follow the hype? most ICOs are too hyped off late and you know what, the end up failing as soon as they hit the exchange and the blaming game starts. these blames are just targeted at bounty hunters who only had about 5% of all the total allocation for dumping. I think 5% out of 100% can cause the failure of a coin and bounty managers and project managers should stop blaming bounty hunters. the hype is mostly a camouflage and don't go for hype.

Hype has never done anything right or give investors the right value they deserve from projects they invest in. I agree with you, it is time to stop following hype and follow projects with good track records as they are the ones that will pay off on the long run.

That is why we shouldn't go for hypes and we know already what will happen next after the strike, losses.
Hypes is very eminent last 2017 and a lot of investors get loss after. This shouldn't be happen again if we are not too greedy and to think instant profit return. Hope this time we all realize how hypes causes bad effect into the market.  

From the past those things that OP mentioned are being used to pick projects as it can bring some decent upwards movements, but later on, those are the memory of the past, most of investors who still trying to survive from this market knew about how to research and investigate good projects that's being offers from ICO's or IEO's, or any available investment fundings opportunities, realizing that scammers are all over the place it needs to be more active from the community in order to have a much clear view with prospected projects to invest with.

Listening with someone's opinions will only endangered your investment, so do your part and research deeper.

Hype is not good or bad, if you have a strategy that can make profits out of the hype of a coin then you should use it, as long as you can make money in the long term then you can use any tool at your disposal, there are those that use fundamental analysis, technical analysis, arbitrage or seasonal information to get profits so if you can use hype then use it, just make sure that your strategy is sound because there are many that develop a strategy and believe it gives them profits only to discover too late that is not the case.

The worst among them is Savedroid and the project seems to me like scam. Electroneum is still very active though it has declined drastically but there is still hope for it because the team behind it is still very active. As for Savedroid, I don't think any good thing can come out of it again.

You've got some good points on this post. Most people follow paid reviews especially from influencers or ICO rating platforms without doing their own due diligence and most times get burnt at the end. Before Investing in any coin, one has to do thorough research, not just sentiments. Access the team, product especially, check the token economics too. These things are necessary, do not neglect them. I'm not saying it's bad for a project to have good hype, but it shouldn't be a yardstick to ascertain the quality of the project.

You will have dump price after the hype over because it is not a natural growth.
I guess it is better to ignore the hype if you know it late because to gain profit from hype, you will need to follow the hype from the start.

That is right. Your return in crypto is determined by not only the rise in the market value of the specific coin but also by so many other factors. It is often very tough for traders to make money when they enter the market with high cost of investment that is when they invest in the bull market with prices already spiked. But speaking about the current hype, you really need to be part of the bullish market when you are seeing so big gains.

Following from the start is the only good way to get a profit from hype, otherwise you can even lose your money on it. I also think that hype should be ignored. I find such projects too risky to invest.

I believe the most effective way to not fomo was to experience the effect of that thing first, so you must personally trying to fomo first, after that you will learn it's now wise to just follow your emotion based on fomo, or not.

I screw up bigtime on savedroid,joined both bounty and ICO and in the end yeah i got some money some FEW pennies compared to what I invested on ICO and time i spent promoting it with my signature  im very disappointed,hype never means success

From the beginning of joining the crypto currency, I wasn't interested in following the hype. I think that following the hype there is no benefit. I wish I was more certain than hoping for the hype. Although this hype made a lot of money but I was not satisfied with following this hype. Yeah it's true that this crypto currency won't go anywhere. Crypto currencies will last as long as we still love crypto currencies. We must be more intelligent as crypto currency players. We have to be smart in analyzing crypto currencies. We cannot rely on news and information whose source is unclear.

Research has always been the best form of making it in this space, most people feel very lazy to carry out researches but they are quick to follow the crowd and at the end of the day they get burnt and start feeling cryptocurrency is a bad investment

This is what most people often do. They just reading some articles but not researching thoroughly. They just go with the flow. Hype is a big trap for your money. I think they'll learn from their experiences. They need to caught up by fomo and then eventually realizes that following those hype can burn their money. Hype doesn't mean anything. You can't be successful just referring on hypes. Be careful.

I will say only that when the hupe to invest in some coin began, it is usually too late to invest in it. It is best to invest in coins, for which only the beginning of the hupe is planned. However, such coins are hard to find and you need to constantly read the news.

I think this is a very good warning for all of us,and I am become very carefulI with that kind of project ...

if it is for the alts then it is not advisable to go for the hype because it will really fails you most of the time, if you were investing to alts it is better to follow the hype of selling and not hype of buying, but if it is for bitcoin it is good if you follow the hype of buying specially when the run is out there.

If you following the hype, you should be able to afford the lose of your money.
Because it is very risky, you will not gain anything if the hype is over after you just buy the coin.

yes right, it's a risky affection, there's a big risk that allows losses, even losing our money. there is a very big hoax in the market hype, and if we can overcome maybe the big benefits we can get.

Following HYIPs have dealt not small blow to investors as they will be expecting to win big, team will collect huge fund but still won't deliver on promise which has been a major setback for cryptocurrency community. Just look at Saveroid that collected much fund, but it's currently worthless, smae thing with Ubex and some others.

Most of the investors are quite good in researching and digging some useful knowledge in order for them to decide what projects to invest on.
These type of investors are professionals or an experienced one, what we need to worry are those newbie who don't have an experienced yet as they will surely be one of the victim in this kind of tactics (hype).

Though hype is part of marketing strategy in any projects but you need to distinguish also the right one to follow and right one to avoid.

Most of the time those who apply Hype system, they have no good intention to help the community to get profit.
They only aim was to get the money form the investors, and those victim usually are the community who become greed
and desiring to get profit quickly which in the end, their capital will be gone and melt. So for us to get profit, we must depend in the actual
happening in the platform. Let us be wise always before we buy coins in the exchange or in the project campaign.

This is something I see a lot, investors instead of taking their time to do their due diligence in a coin take advice from ico review sites, even if it has been known for a very long time that those sites accept payments from icos to give favorable reviews to coins which do not deserve it, which makes their sites useless since it is impossible to accomplish their purpose anymore by accepting those bribes, so if any investor is unwilling to do their due diligence they should avoid investing in any market because eventually they will lose everything they have.

This is a very big problem of people in this market. Most of then follow the hype and most of the time the result is not good for follow the hype. And this problem is greater in the new people who come to this space. They came here and thought that this market is made by only profit and what ever they invest that will make him millionaire. But for the lack of knowledge they are into hype and most of them are fake or pump game. So they end up in a very bad situation and leave the market. So my opinion is you can follow the hype but if you have the right idea about it. But if you don't know about this market then don't go for the hype.

therefore we really have to be serious in investing if we want profit.
we must always update the latest news and also always analyze market movements so that we will not be late in taking the opportunity.
and if we can't do that we have to invest long-term.

Most project make a lot of noise only to dupe others. In fact real project does not speak much and with such projects you could see how promising the  future will be if you're to invest in such a coin.

Following the hype in the crypto world can be your loss or gain the crypto world. For example, I followed the hype concerning storiqa and I made profit.
But recently I followed the hype concerning three trading tokens but I ended up bearing the loss for two. I am currently holding the other one hopefully I see profit in the nearest future.

I will never go on about the hype created for a crowd of people. Everyone knows that a stupid crowd beaters always lead to the slaughter or at least to the haircut.
That is why I myself have never been on the hype and do not advise anyone to do so.

It takes knowledge, patience, focus, and commitment when you join the market. The world of cryptocurrency is broad, it can be quite complex but with the interest to learn then we will be able to acquire knowledge and experience that can be very applicable in dealing with its volatile nature. Hype can ignite our excitement but don't be too dependent on it. It's better that we do our own part to do research, learn, and embrace its nature, so we can have a thorough grasp of its trend and be able to decide creatively.

This is really the good thing to do besides it is your money to invest and you should be very careful on investing on a certain project. Some projects can really deceitful and will do some promises. I guess you look for something that offers "SMART" projects.

Specific
Measurable w/Measurement
Achievable
Relevant
Time-Oriented

That's true in fact I stop following Mcafee and never used Icobench or similar rating sites, I do my own research by first checking if it is listed in the scam section, then I check their platform if it is a duplicate one and of course the most important thing who are the people behind the project.

that's a bad example, unfortunately you only give a bad example, don't give an example when you get a lot of profits when you try to follow the hype, I'm sure you've succeeded by implementing that strategy because if you do it with the right coins then you will definitely get lots of profits but if not, then I don't think the strategy is wrong but the coins you choose are wrong

If you are following the hype without knowing the root cause of it, then you will lose your money without a doubt.


This is true in some cases. If you get the right timing of when to enter and exit the hype, you will get a lot of profit. But if not, you will lose your money. Hype is more of a short-term strategy of gaining profit. Because most of them are crappy projects.

I've noticed that koreans are quite frugal about these things. They wait for the projects to get into an exchange first before doing their DYOR and investing. I'm quite the opposite though. I invest in science, not fiction (https://tecracoin.io/?utm_source=tclx). I check for new projects and immediately check the team and its plans and see if its practical. Hodl if needed. I only invest what I can afford to lose anyway. Even if that's the case, I know its going to give something back since its an investment for the future.

I am remember savedroid hype, when every body in crypto community talking about this project and ended with scam Prank from their CEO. Its really sad to see the project like this, reach a lot money and the price on market not reflecting hype at ICO

Following the hype poses much risk because there is the likelihood to buy the peak. However, if it is done well, it may result in huge profit. This means that it must be meticulously done if an investor decides to follow signal groups which give the hype. Always be among the first who buy right after the signal is set and be ready to sell at the least pump. Never be too greedy because such signals do not last for long when the pumps are created.

It is paramount for every investor to investigate a project before investing. Many scammer are out there looking for who to scam with some unrealizable project ideas. Even Bounty hunters should do likewise so that their efforts will not be in vain.

Hype sometimes involves emotion and does include regrets after. We should know to research what cause the hype so you'll be able to know whether it's good to buy or wait if it continues to earn bigger in selling l.

youre right buddy, never follow hype again, personally im dissapointed with several project whos got hype on the past.

Mostly same on trade, follow hype is almost the same as FOMO, they follow what is a trend without knowing the actual conditions on the coin and the project. so they seem to gamble because they depend on luck. of course you have to research and analyze to invest first, dont follow the hype

Hype is normal in the market, but to get hype all the time is not normal.
You know when to enter and to get out, that's why successful traders do, when there is a hype, price is overvalued, when there is a FUD, it's the opposite.

Newbies tend to make mistakes, but hopefully they'll mature with their experience as we know already that market manipulation makes a pump and dump, and therefore don't get caught in between.

Well sometimes hype can be useful especially when doing day trading.You just gotta join the ride since when many join this hype the price sometimes really go up but not for long, its just that you need to get out and sell right away and with perfect timing to profit and not loss.

It's not about the idea. The point is that the majority of companies promise too much and advertise themselves too much through bribing experts. Do not always make a profit. The fact is that there are small projects that quickly come to success on their own and even without ICO.

well,, maybe you are right, but, most of people will follow the hype, because in almost people hype will make something good for the, not wrong but beside follow the hype, just do research about it.

Quite right, every investor should fully study every project in which he wants to invest, because there are still too many scammers left and therefore you need to protect yourself until governments will start to regulate cryptocurrency.

This is very correct following the hype may mislead one into jumping into investing in a project without a long term potential and at that leading to long time lose of asset, I have never been a fan of any hyped project because I always believe hype to.be manipulation.

Bitcoin is also hyped sometimes, when there is a good news, people speculate and that would result to some having some bullish prediction.
As a trader, you can also ride with the hype, but you know it will go down again as it's not normal, so you also need to sell at the right timing.
Bad only if you got hyped, bought and hold while watching the price continues to fall after the hype is over.

I advise you to take part in bounty campaigns, then you can better learn and explore the coin. If you understand that cryptocurrency is really promising, you will be able to invest in this project. Ratings are sold, advertising is done for money, only you yourself are able to do quality research.