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I know the question sounds stupid.

But my questions is, if i have 50k should i rather invest in bitcoin, ethereum or a other high market cap coin compared to a small market cap coin were i could almost own 0.1% if the coin supply is 1 billion and trades at 5 cent.


It should be much easier for the coin with a lower market cap to make much more gains than with Btc, right?

Small coins you are talking might have low volume at most of the cases. I doubt it can filled your big orders the moment you will take a profit on it.

Don't want to suggest what coins you must put your money but you know what BTC can do and where it should always go*.


Depends on a certain coin's volume and price behaviour.

But honestly, you can play on it. Test it on actual with your own strategy as we have a different approach on how we trade.

Risk some low percentage of your capital and see how far it will go. See the result for yourselves.

If that's all for trading, I don't know how strong you are saving lots of coins with all the risks involved, of course you choose more clearly because they have to go because Bitcoin is pretty good in the current market situation by pumping unexpectedly, returning to yourself because to buy a small coin is good enough but use the analysis first to ensure that the direction will occur in the future.

Both are profitable so you don't have to struggle to choose. You can invest some in Bitcoin and other in Ethereum. You can divide your capital and you can also choose in potential altcoins if you want. It all depends on your span of holding but if I were you, I will not hesitate to invest on Bitcoin especially now that the prices are getting better.

I personally prefer to hold a few coins like Ethereum and Bitcoin as it's easier to manage things if you only hold a few coins (my Ledger Nano only has space for a few apps), but both can work out well if you do it right. There's always occasionally the coin that skyrockets in value from a few satoshis every now and then, but it's pretty hard to find such coins and you can lose money trying to find a good coin to hold for profits. Not all coins will rise in value, and a lot of alts actually decrease in value over time.

Choosing the best coins with low market cap will certain a tough job for you mate, not only it will consume a lot of time but putting your money at high risk.
Why you don't consider those known coins in the market which you have assurance that even works well than those Low market profile? Anyway, that is my suggestion and hope it will give some insight in your future investment.

I also prefer fewer coins because it easy to manage unlike having to many coins, tendency of having too many coins is you cannot monitor or manage all of it, I think I read one article here in the forum wherein he holds many coins and end up losing some of his investments because there's a coin that he kept for too long until he forgot about it and that the coin losses value if i'm not mistaken, and it is to late for him to realize it. I think it would be best to invest only on coins that can give your more profits like bitcoin or ETH and having only coins can already give you a lot profits so there's no need tp buy more.

Things have changed a lot after the 2018 dump or correction. I always  get the sentimen from crypto youtubers that they dispose their old coins and only give attention on trading new coins. But they are not letting go of altcoin that are on top 100 of cmc so they are only few. People are maybe tired of new projects and just wants to stick on the projects that has bright future and see their developments progress faster.

It completely depends. What coins are you specifically planning on holding? How long are you even planning on holding them? Holding certain altcoins can definitely be profitable in the long term, but it really just depends on what specific altcoins you're going to buy. The answer to your question really isn't binary.

Holding one bad coin is much better than 1000 shit coins,so hold many coins if you find it better but shit coins will always be in danger when you hold it for too longer.

The cryptocurrency market right now is on the bullish mode and it is estimated that bitcoin (and possibly other top altcoins as well led by Eth) can go on a rampage soon (to the $10,000 zone and beyond) so if I were in your shoes I would just concentrate on bitcoin and maybe one or 2 altcoins (you can also include BNB if you like). Remember that there are more risks associated with those relatively unknown and low-cap cryptos (though sometimes they can pump big time as well but they are more unpredictable). Go with the winners first and when you gain some profits start diversifying with other digital assets.

It is not easy. For low-capitalized coins, it is certainly trivial coins and has not been well developed. Besides, you can easily invest in coins that have no potential and sometimes without liquidity and your money will be stuck forever.
In order to effectively invest in coins with low market capitalization, you need to learn more about how to analyze its value and potential.

It's true however if you're going to base it on volume most small cap coins doesn't have volumes in it in other words there can only be few coins that are circulating around or only few who are willing to buy or sell their coin or low trading volume. I should just stick with a large volume coins since their trading volume is high which means it is volatile and may pump their price but also may dump their prices as well.

If you choose to invest in small cap coins always take a look at their product and team. Small projects may be stopped and canceled, you would lose all your money if that happens.

Therefore BTC is a way safer investment, although gains may not that big compared to a booming altcoin.

I will divide my capital into 2, I will use 2/3 to buy bitcoin and 1/3 I will use to buy coins with lower market capitalization because both have the same potential profit

I would rather choose a few yet profitable coins. What important is we're holding potential coins. Bitcoin's price is going better so I believe that it's best to invest in it. I will also suggest coins like LTC and ETH. These coins are active and has been showing its potential to rise and increase in time.

It's difficult to answer your question, because each coin has different functions and benefits. This is very influential on the development of coins that affect the price of coins in the future. In my opinion, you need to do a small analysis, visit the site https://coinmarketcap.com/, select one of the coins and follow social media to get the latest updates about their project.

Potential coins might not give unrealistic profits so choose coin based on holding term not based on the bumping level sometime it will get us to be in trouble when they don't follow the trend of bitcoin and other potential cryptos.

  I prefer to hold multiple coins that give accumulate profits when the market phase has gain constant stability. There might be high volatilization, still I am positive that the market cap can surpass and continue to outcast bountifully. Just bare our wide patience to hold and  deal the flaws to gain massive outcome.

Low liquidity will ruin your dreams. What if you can't sell shitcoins later?

don't try to corner an altcoin market. the market is so saturated, you may end up bagholding for a very long time, and in some cases you won't ever recover. many low cap coins go to the moon, but many also get delisted and lose all liquidity and value. it's only worth it if you're an insider in a pre-mine/insta-mine scheme or something like that.

for me, it all goes into bitcoin until i see technical breakouts across lots of alt/btc charts indicating a new altcoin season. during altcoin season, i buy some bags of different coins, sell into pumps, and roll the profits into coins that haven't pumped yet.

I focus more on a few coins than a lot of coins. maybe there will be some coins whose price will pump, but we know, holding lots of coins will make a profit, and the risk is directly proportional. so, some coins might pump, and some coins can be dumps. I prefer a number of potential coins, and I think they are better and easier to control.

I would suggest to have a package of 4-6 coins. 4 major coins and 2 outsider. 90% of top 10 coins, and 10% of coins between 10 and 50 places ( on coinmarketcap). If you have time you should study and check the projects.

Actually, this is a good question. Like the saying goes: don't put all your eggs in one basket. Putting all your money in a coin might be too risky However, some can still put their eggs in one basket and it will still work out well. Some can invest in one coin like bitcoin and make huge profit. Afterall Bitcoin is the leading Cryptocurrency. In my opinion, you can spread your money among bitcoin and other Potentially beneficial altcoins. But with larger amount on bitcoin. When bitcoin coughs, other altcoins cough

But the problem is many of us still holding too many coins from the last year, and they don't have a chance to sell right now because of the price still on the lower than the price they bought. They need to wait for the price to increase at least reach the lower price they buy so they can sell it to get their money back. But they can wait for another time to see the price will increase higher, and the chance will wide open because we will see the bull market will happen soon.

Its better to do mix up, but the proportion for high volume coins like btc or eth are bigger, btc and eth got a safety net, the price can't drop too low and it tends to bounce back, but because the price is already quite high it will be difficult to gain big profit, while not popular coin got bigger opportunity to make profit but with high risk, so by balancing both coins it could make your investment better

I think it is better to hold many coins if your an investor, because if the other coin might get down you will still have other coin that is profitable, unlike having few coins, the more probability that you will loose everything if you put all your bet on few coins.

Right, that's why you must think to divide it into 50%:50%

Or to give more guarantee for your portfolios and just try to put more amount to the major coin looks better consider if you can get a big pump and you can easily turn a hundred dollars into the thousand of dollars easily.

I just think that will be a wise decision for you.

That will depend on what type of investment you are, you can invest in bitcoin but you must be prepared for the long term. Or you can invest in small coins in the hope of greater profits but also greater risks.

It's better to hold fewer coins as long as it has the potential to grow in the future whereas holding lots of coins but with low possibilities and potential to gain investors in the future. It's like you were holding lots of stone instead of holding those rare gems which is more valuable than those stones that you were holding.

indeed bitcoin can provide a lot of benefits if you apply it with a long-term method, but the OP tries to find out which information is better to hold lots of coins or less coins, so I prefer to save a few coins that have potential and promising.

When it comes to possible gains then shitcoin can give that out but when it comes to security then I would go for established coins.

Just a common sense will already help out on which one you would choose but well its your own money so it would depend on which one you would prefer.

Fewer and better, better have coins that have potential and at the same time we're able to managed. It's hard to have many coins and then will just hold it but not been able to get updates and happenings on such coin. We must have time to read teams update so we can decide on when to sell or to buy more of that coin.

Depending on your capacity on coins to handle but you shouldnt put your fund to only one coin. Fewer coins are easier to manage but your source of income and odds will be limitted only to that. If you can control more coins then its better because it has a lower risk of dropping all at once.

I think that depends on your capital's ability to buy and if you have a large budget, why do you only hold a few coins while in fact holding more coins will be very profitable. Adjustments and calculations will be the main thing to make an investment that will end well later.

This is a part of a strategy and profitability will depend on how you diversify things up and it will depend on your risk management if you can afford to buy some coins inspite on having the major ones
on hoping that it would give out possible profits later on when the market tends to reverse.It isn't a sure thing but there would always be a possibility on making money.

full of btc  eth eos is ok

We should always focus on a few coins which have huge potential in the market because it will be easy for you to manage what are specific updates and improvement are being done by the company. Focus on few and it will help you to increase your portfolio.

If you have chosen the right coin then you should not compromise of investing in it because it can be the way out to become a rich crypto trader. If you have the ability to buy more Bitcoins then you should not stop especially when the market is completely bear. However, you can also start buying on normal price because Bitcoin has the ability to touch the moon so ultimately you will become rich very soon.

Depends on the coins really. If you want to hold very few coins (I do) then you should be holding very famous and big coins, I have bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin, nano and eos (looking into getting some dash as well). Which goes to show you that only nano is small and not really big but all others are great coins and big. I have a friend who has many coins including the ones I have and 10 more like ripple (which I hate but its big) and bitcoin cash, tron, cardano and some more.

The long story short if you are going to hold few number of coins but they are all bad coins then you are going to lose money, if you are going to hold a lot of coins and they are all bad you are going to lose money. If you hold few coins or a lot of coins but they are always great coins then you are going to earn money, it doesn't matter how many coins you invest into, it only matters if you invest into good stuff.

There is no hard and fast rule that low satoshi coin will give you more profit or high marketcap coin will give you good profit. It depends upon the current market conditions. Sometimes keeping bitcoins may be more profitable and sometimes you would like to have your portfolio in altcoins.

If you have more amount of money, it is better to hold more coins. This way your portfolio will be divided and you will get profits from most of the coins.

And then one day another pump-and-dump group pumps the market so high that you can sell everything and get instant profit. But so is that group, so it will be a battle, and in the end, you might ended up losing that big money of yours, for me it's a bigger risk, just saying.


Hard to say, because that is a altcoins that can easily be manipulated and even though you have the majority, there could be other forces out there that will try to ruin your plans by pushing up the price and then suddenly dumps everything.

  Holding many coins from one source such as BTC while holding the same quantity coins from other source such as ETH will have great impact because the price difference of BTC and ETH is very big and even their price movements are also different. BTC enables you to make more profit so it work when you hold the BTCs in large quantity only then you will be able to make profit, do the same with ETH.

Holding lots of coins requires a lot of capital to share in several coins, and also requires accurate skills and analysis.
I personally am not tempted to invest or hold lots of coins because I think it is risky and in some coins will suffer losses, I am more interested in holding a bitcoin which proved profitable even though I had to wait long and be patient but the results proved to be profitable.

Well this is obviously and easy answer, of course you should invest in bitcoin, whether you are looking for long time investment or short term invesment, bitcoin is the best option for anyone wanting to make profit from the crypto currency market, considering how the market right now is flooded with shit coins and small cryptos, investing in them would not get you that much investment, even if you like invest in 50 coins they will not get you any profit compared to what bitcoin could give you.

If you really have such a great sum of money to start investing in crypto (I guess if you have a question you are a beginner), why don't start better with learning more about crypto? You will make this decision yourself.

My advice is that you have to keep ownership of coins that are healthy and stable like Bitcoin, then you just buy coins that have low value and high potential. so I think this is a possible thing you can get for a profit.

If you work as a day trader, it is better to have many tokens. You always have a choice: which exchange can be done to get a profit. For holding, Bitcoin and Ethereum are the best cryptocurrencies, certainly.

Better to split your investment for a certain number of coins with the consideration of having premier coins and cheap coins in the list. The cheap coins do not necessarily have big capital. Knowing that cheap coins offer more percentage income for long term. While the premier coins are your bread and butter.

Agree with you for those who are working as day trader they should use more than one coin but those who are working on long term trading should focus on single coin investment and trading, as you already have mentioned the best coins so I also like to trade with bitcoin and ETH only,  I consider both of them the best coins ever.

Certainly for small businesses, you can earn a lot of money if it is a potential business. But you can also lose a lot of money because it goes bankrupt or its price is always falling over time and there is no sign of recovery.
investing in small coins always have a huge risk but I when we will get rich very quickly.

I think that it would be better to hold a little coin because with that you will be able to control the performance of each coin that you have.
compared to holding lots of coins with too many coins you hold you will be confused to pay attention to your coins one by one in the trade.

Its not that hard to check the price of your coins and there are now tools to help you monitor your portfolio more faster than usual  .  If you have less coins your earnings will also be lesser compare to when you have alot of coins but its also depend on the coins that you hodl because lots of coins these days are purely useless with no real world usage and that simply means that they cant get an adequate demand in the future or in other words their value wont grow fruitfully  .

Delta and Blockfolio android applications can do this. Diversifying the portfolio can reduce the risks associated with the market conditions. I agree with not holding the shitcoins which has no real value in any exchange and I usually ignore  any airdrop offer as fast as possible

Holding many coins will give the chances of getting better profit more than holding the normal little currencies but if you hold lots of useless investment then there will be no use in your future so investment and better currency more and more will be useful for your future to get huge profits.

If I have 50K then I'll split into that two options, both are profitable in the long run, but if you have included a new coin in your portfolio be sure that coin really has a good potential in the long term, coins with lower market cap is also profitable if there will be high demand in the future.

If you hold lots of useless coins also you don't have the the opportunity to get the profit easily and also if you hold less amount of best currency for long time then also you can get less profits only so you need to hold lots of good currencies only you can make huge profit in your future

if you were looking for a coin to be hold then you should had a huge quantity rather than settling down on the coin than has low market cap. you will have a huge profit on holdings if you will go for a coin with a huge market cap and a huge volume per day.

holding lots of coins is not a problem as long as you hold a potentially good coin, but for myself, I have to hold a little coin but it has good potential for maximum profit. so choose your choice

Its not the stupid discussion to me .You wanna know a proper suggestion when you are going to invest huge amount of money .However i think it always better to invest on different coin  definitely on top coin .You don't invest your whole money in one coin .You can choose any coin from top 20 .If you have a plan to hold coin for long time hopefully you will find your level of profit .You can also research the market and you will have much idea about the coins.

I prefer to put only a few coin major, actually putting a lot of coins is pretty good but the problem is that it will be difficult to manage financial assets later.
Especially if you choose the wrong coin

Is good to hold up what you can carry when it comes to investment and as well as trading you need to have a vision about coins you are to bag some and the ones you are to start.

In theory, of course, from altcoins you can get more profit. But still I would not recommend to keep a lot of altcoins. In this case, it will be difficult to keep track of them. Especially if you are a beginner, it is better for you to buy bitcoin, it will be more reliable.

I think if you are looking to minimize your risk, you should have more and more coins in your portfolio which means that the risk of loosing value would be minimized if you HODL more coins. But the case could be different as well that is if you HODL Bitcoin which is the best coin, your chances of loosing money would not be so high so yeah, go with what you love.

All the best coins are reliable including ETH, BCH, BNB and no doubt BTC. The fact is that are you able enough to get the most out of it. The success in crypto currency should be regardless of whichever coin you hold but make sure you are holding them in large quantity. Keep in mind you should only hold the top coins in which you will not feel any problem with your profit but make sure you should perform well.

I guess this depends on the coin that you want to hold. There are a lot of cryptocurrencies you can invest in the internet but only a few of them can give you an actual profit. I guess it is better if you hold a few coins if you know you can't afford a lot and you know how will that coin moves. Holding less coin I guess can minimize your loss.

Holding many coins is a best option regardless Of which coin you hold but the more quantity will enable you to earn more. It is super excellent if you hold the Bitcoins in large quantity which will enable you to have massive profit in future. Coins other than the Bitcoin will give you the opportunity to make less profit but its large quantity will enable you to earn much more as we described in the case of Bitcoin.

You can have 0.1% of the total supply if you buy cheap coins with small marketcaps, but can the small coins benefit to you? while bitcoin, although the price is quite expensive, will guarantee you to get profit? I think you have to invest in bitcoin, ethereum and other coins that have big marketcaps. it will give a big chance to profit rather than gambling to buy in small altcoin

If you want to hold then the coins such as bitcoin or Eth is the right choose but for me 50k is huge amount of money besides hold the coins i mentioned above i think used it 10% - 20% to seeking another potential altcoins which can give you good profit and don't too underestimate with low volume support for particular altcoins because it cannot be guarantee those altcoins will be worthless sometimes if there is new pumped for them then the altcoins volume support will increase rapidly following the price too

Sometimes small altcoins or coins that are not popular can also pump high but most of the times big coins do pump the most . this is why we should always prioritize big coins over smaller ones so that we can have an assurance that our money will grow  .  we can invest 70/30 , 70 percent on big coins and the rest 30 percent goes to the smaller ones 

when you are trading on altcoin I suggest you do not use too much capital because in altcoin the price movements are very unstable and altcoin also cannot promise, only those who have very high patience are able to trade in altcoin.

It doesn't work like that.

It will depend on the trading volume of that coin in an exchange. Take note that coins that have lower volume on exchanges tends to be pumped and dumped by whales but if they are not pumped, the price of it will not change for like few hours or days.

Fewer coins is better for me to handle it easily because we need some fewer to manage those coins. Because many of coins less volume the price goes dump it will cause a big problem on your funds.

There is nothing much to learn here mate, he is strictly trying to make a very risky investment by going for lower market cap coins. Lower market cap coins are easily pumped and dump within a twinkle of an eye and if he is not watchful enough, he will miss out of the pump and when he misses out, he automatically becomes a shitcoin holder because not many people will revisit that coins again.

I am sure the best choice for him will be to just go for high marketcap because they get more attention than the lower ones, and when they pump, they could really pump so hard also without getting a dump that will over damage their market.

it would be better if you hold a little type of coin (a trusted coin or is the 100 best listed coinmarketcap) in large quantities, so you can easily control the price of coins that you hold.

focusing on a few coins will indeed be very good. having coins that are not so much will be easier to control. besides that, we can also focus more on collecting coins that we have so that the coins can have a considerable amount that can be sold later.

To tell you the truth, I just owned few coins. Btc, eth and other altcoins. The great thing is that I am still profiting enough from these coins. I am not interested to hodl as many coins if majority of that coins will be worthless. Isn't delightful to hodl few, major and potential coins rather than useless coins?

Sometimes it's not good to hold more of those coins when you're not certain at all times mate. Probably when one of them soar higher at good price value, then you'll be able to appreciate the goodness of it just like the potential profits which may benefit you quickly. Right now, as bitcoin price still actively spiking and having signs that it could arise a better and amazing trend, I think this is out biggest opportunity to grab some cheaper valued coins that had reached a tremendous rise from previous years. The potential is always there to happen as long as bullish trend will occur randomly.

Your resulting profit depends upon both the quantity of coins and the quality of coins. You need to focus on these two things in order to have massive profit when you end up by selling coins in bull market. Many investors have the choice to sell out when they see some profit but they don’t sell immediately because they keep focusing on maximum profitability as well that is all important you need to learn.

the most important and the best decision is that we can buy and hold the right coin. because a lot or at least will not be the decisive thing to gain profit or loss. choose the right coin and have good prospects, then we will be able to get closer to profit. many people failed to choose coins and they also could not use the momentum properly. so when we want to become a successful trader, we must be able to choose the right coin and be in the right moment when buying and selling the coin.

There is no wrong of holding a numbers of coins if only if he can manage them well but if not, it for sure losses will its future. A very satisfying moment in crypto is to make profits and achieve our goal, holding a lot of coins is not an option to make more profits, it is better to put a huge amount of  money in a certain coin rather than of buying with different coins.

I supposed to think that holding a lot of coins will give me chances to earn more profits than of holding only of 3-5 coins, but I realize if we are only holding those shit coins, no matter many it is, it only makes no sense and ain't profitable.
Now, if this is only we can do, better to invest with fewer numbers as the risk of losing isn't that high and we ain't wasting the time of holding for nothing.
If you have a lot of money to risk and totally making good profit, better to put in into the leading coins in the market.

Bitcoin or ethereum is good choices to invest and choosing coins came from the though is also good but the question is how yourself brave because handling a lots of coins is very risk need to double your effort to monotor everyday each coins do you have specially in times of drops.

Definitely right. It would be more profitable to invest in few but potential coins than to waste your time in a lot of coins which will only turn out into shitcoins and don't have any value in the end. So i suggest to focus more on bitcoin and ethereum because for sure this will give you huge profits in the long run.

To hodl many coins look very tempting strategy, as some of them might skyrocket while you hodling them, returning huge profits to you. But keep in mind when there is a chance of high return, there is also a chance of high losses.
So you must ask yourself what you are looking for: safer investment, with an average return, or a risky investment with chances of high returns? I prefer the first option: to choose few coins and to stay away from possible shitcoins.

I will check the progress of the coin and how investors react in the market about their coin, you can become a whale of a coin but if there is no way to liquidate your share, then it's not worth it, I prefer a wide portfolio and not rely on one coin hoping to be a whale of that coin

That's my strategy, and I can tell you it's not working if I will judge based on the market situation now.
It's necessary to be updated of all the coins you hold, which this one is impossible to do as it requires a lot of time.
Let's just say, I hold a combine of legit and shitcoins, and the biggest hope for me to make a decent income is when shitcoins pump to the moon.

I prefer to hold only few coins like bitcoin and ethereum because it is more manageable and will not cause a lot of stress. Holding multiple coins is not advisable for me because it is time-consuming and requires more attention. If I have enough time, I'd rather trade the other coins that I can't able to hold because they are more profitable.

It is good to diversify but managing those assets like you said becomes a problem. I learnt my lessons from one of these coins that I had, I couldn’t keep eye on all the coin which I was only monitoring the major coins and waiting for altcoins season to come before I check other remaining coins, it was later in the new that I saw that the coin pumped one of these days by 400% and already dumped>

It was really painful to me because I had so much investment which would have been a major breakthrough for me. So now I have learnt to just keep my investment in very few solid projects that I am sure of and be able to monitor from time to time.

But if that cheap coins decreases on its value in cents you might lose 50% of your capital.More profits will always have high risk,choose on your own.

I prefer to hold a little coin but the coin has the potential and has the potential to grow tall. this becomes one of the good profit producers rather than having to hold lots of coins but we don't know the potential of the coin.

Just an advise,you should not consider on buying up coins if you do base on owning it with 0.1% of the entire supply.Always look up

for the projects potential because no matter on how big or small the supply is,if the project is good or does have potential it will
surely be supported.

As you said you do have 50k to invest on but since you aren't sure on the step you are going to make then better stick out to
those coins you had mentioned.

You can get more profit if you buy a coin with less capitalization. But it is accordingly more risky. Therefore, you need to choose these coins very carefully.

if you can put your money into bitcoin and make it a form of long-term investment and not used as a trade in a short time, I think it can provide many benefits in the future.but it all depends on your own self-confidence because all the risks that will be faced can only be accounted for alone

It is a subjective thing I think if there is profits in HODLING coins, you should HODL as many coins as possible. The more assets you have, the more chances of making money in those assets provided the assets are profitable and have good value gaining ability. It could be crypto assets as well as the real market assets. What matters is the money you make.

If its real market assets then its considerable but talking with various numbers of coins then it isn't a sure thing for it to give out profits.
Its always been suggested on never put all of your eggs on a single basket but sometimes we are making this thing way too carelessly or without
have proper plans that why we do end up on getting stacked.

I just hope that you are choosing the best coins and not the shitcoins that is flooded already in the market. Cause it couldn't never be profitable anymore if you buy those dead coins. We can think that there is chances to grow and have a better price but think of how long we have to wait for it, or thinking that you are wasting a lot of time for this shitcoins and could possibly lose your funds.

Choosing coins very carefully? The sad reality in this market is that the most scammy coins tend to pump harder than the legit ones with a business and a whole team of developers behind it.

Overall, I would say that you shouldn't 'carefully' choose coins, but pick like 5-10 random shitcoins and sit on them. If even one ends up pumping, you'll make all your money back with a thick fat profit on top of it.

As long as you're using money you can afford to lose it might be worth doing so. Best is obviously to stick to Bitcoin or even Ethereum and Litecoin, but people somehow like to invest in garbage, so go ahead.

Yes, having more coins requires a lot of time to monitor and to manage it especially if you do trading. If i have that $50k worth of money then I would invest it on different assets, with bitcoin, eth and stocks because we need to diversify our money and not just holding more coins, which can become useless in the future. I don’t have much altcoins, i still prefer those who are place on top.

Yes, it is not a good idea to hold multiple coins, so it is good to choose very few coins which have active developments and it will help you to keep track their developments and their prices in the market. Multiple holding will not help to concentrate on the potential coins.

That is not true.

You will never know when a price will surge and also will fall.
Yeah go to something with low market cap but it will just be the same as bitcoin. The price is also volatile and nothing can be predicted accurately.
The best thing you could do is lower the risk of losing.
One how to do that is simple.

Go to the trusted one instead of risking to a newer coin. Nowadays, new coins tend to just fall in the long run instead of rising. Unlike bitcoin which could be seen right now on how its market flows.

This your formula to crypto investment success is quite too technical, if you hold more coins and all of them end up turning to shot coins, and only bitcoin is still thriving among them, would it not have been better you gather all the money you would have used for those coins to put in bitcoin for more profits?

I don’t believe there is any risk in bitcoin for now, provided the investor invested when the price was down. I am not typically against holding altcoins, but it should be alts that are valuable like bitcoin, rather than holding 100 alts, I will rather prefer to just hold 8 or 10 coins more added to bitcoin at max.

This is not a stupid question, this is a very reasonable question, and in my opinion it is better for you to hold just a few coins, which according to the regulation are really good and potential, such as ETH and XRP

You will gains more profit for the coin who have lower cap because if the value rise you earn more but bitcoin you can still earn more money because that coin is very potential coin and most of the people trusted to this coin so it will rise very high.  Bitcoin started at lower market cap before and started growing big after few years and became very high market cap last 2017 and even until now. What ever you choose you have chance to gets high profit depends to the coin and the potential of it.

Every coin have their own risk and their own value.
So far , token's value represent their market situation if we talk about bitcoin, it's quite high so you able to invest more less amount compare with doge ( they have more max amount of total supply )

I mean that whenever holding many or fewer are useless except choosing the best one

Do you see XRP as a potential coin?

Its centralized and moreover it is controlled by banks. :(

You should invest most of the money in the top coins. Spend some money on low-capitalized coins. and keep it long. In my opinion, I should invest in up to 5 coins, making it easy to manage and track

Less coin for me, because i can be more focus on it than spread my money into a lot of coins. Maybe 3-5 coins is already good to do and with 3 of it, chance to a coin have no value is less.

Yes. because small businesses are often considered seeds. It can grow into a tree at any time with a rapid growth rate like in the crypto market. Besides, the risk of investing in those businesses is not small. bạn biết, big profit big risk.
This is the maxim I like very much and hope you will learn more about it and be lucky to invest.

I understand this strategy and I think investors should only have 3 - 5 altcoins good to invest. Because when you have to manage a catalog of over 10 coins, you will actually spend a lot of time controlling the commands and charts. it will cause loss of control and you will have to work all day.
It will only make your body more tired. Focusing on a few of the potential altcoins is much better. You will understand it better and can exploit all the profits from it.

I try to choose like max 10 tokens/coins to hold . I did see in some wallets that people hold like 100+ Tokens and its really hard to follow all of them , because there is plenty of projects that do swaps or change contract adress and if you don't fill the form or miss deadline then probably you can lose alot , depends from project ofcourse :) Why not pick just like 5-10 coins/tokens that you believe and bag them up ?

I can only say one thing - do not be greedy. Because greed will not allow you to earn anything. It is better to invest in blue chips and get a smaller percentage than risk and hope for 100x

I think holding very less coins will be very helpful for you because if you are holding multiple currency without any account then you cannot be in focus on something that is the problem here so if you invest less also you can invest in better currency this will make you a better investor.

   Everyone knows saying "do not hold all eggs at the same basket".
I hear this saying on the forum pretty often towards crypto investments.
   But each od us decides himself what number of so called "baskets", coins, to have in a portfolio and where to collect all of those coins.

I would probably also go with fewer coin, if you have a big fund you may buy some shitcoins to diversify but before that buying trusted coin like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin would probably a safe investment.

I will advice you to spread your capital in different coins for you can tell which one will bring you good return at the end of the day and that is what I will refer to as diversification of investment capital in other to reduce risk of loosing all your capital.

For those who has held too many coins, ask them for the status of their coin, they will tell you they probably regret ever holding 70% of the coins they have now because many of them has ended up as shitcoin and there are so many of them they are not even keeping record of anymore, so what is then the point in keeping coins that one cannot keep record of or even vouch of the future growth.

Rich people do not make noise when you see them, only the poor ones brags, so is the case here too, rich crypto holders are not the ones holding several coins, but the ones holding few but reliable and quality one. Before I started investing in the little few coins that I have, I could remember that bitcoin was the only coin that made me my first million in my country money.

I will give you some guidelines of how to choose good and potential coins mate, actually it is much better to choose coins which are listed on top in the market were you can find at the coinmarketcap, and those coins are Xbx, Nem, Pundix, Utk, Neo, waves, and Eth.

I would hold 9 major coins with potential and 1 outsider so if outsider stop, you don't loose, if it become a win coin, you have good benefits from this.

Much better if you spread it to atleast 3 coins. You can have 2 of which that are currently famous and you can spread another on a low capped coin. Never will I suggest you to hold a lot of coins, not these days. It could have worked a few years back but not today when there are a lot of dying ICOs, IEOs, and a bearish market. Good luck and good day to you!

Holding fewer coins but only on the best coins like bitcoin and ethereum, in my opinion, would be more comfortable than holding lots of coins but on the new ones. Moreover, the progress of bitcoin and ethereum are more easily to be monitored because of their popularity.

Listen dude,
Are you seeking for the opinions of different people, then it will vary.
According to me it will be profitable to you,  if you hold less amounts of coin.
I would also advise you to choose the most stable coins.
In that way if the price also falls down, then you won't face losses.
Good luck mate.

What are you buying cryptocurrency for? To make a profit or look at the number of coins? I advise you to buy different coins, do not buy only one, so you diversify risks.

I think it is better you buy a few coins which you can monitor than having a lot of coins that you might lose track of. Its better you bite what you can chew, than you losing a lot of money.

I would say it is better to hold fewer well known coins rather than holding a lot of shit coins together. If you hold a lot of coins, there is a high chance you will lose track of your coins and their progress. Again, it also becomes hard to handle those coins (lots of wallets to take care of). Also, there are high chance of making a loss in your investment. But, if you hold fewer well known coins, then everything becomes easier from handling those coins to keep track of your profit/loss. Again, less chance of making loss, so it is less riskier to hold those coins.

Right.I agree.There is so much advantage if you chose to hold few potential coins than holding a lot of coins and some of them only end up shitcoins.Atleast it won't bring you too much risks and you will have your whole focus on the potential coins you are holding.In this way,there are higher chances that you will surely end up gaining high profits and got to enjoy them.

I wouldn't buy a lot of coins because you will have a hard time monitoring the progress of your investment. In my opinion, you can focus on at least 5 coins including Bitcoin. Imagine of you are monitoring 10 coins and only 3 are giving your profits and the rest are giving you nothing but losses. You need t monitor the projects of those coins, developments and progress. That is on top of the daily updates in cryptocurrencies where one fake news can cause a wide spread drop of price of all coins.

better simplified in 3/4 main coins, especially for coins that focus on pair trading. btc is the main point in this case and then bnb can be the second alternative. the rest can focus on coins with a lower marketcap with a short trading ratio.

The technical aspects, as well as the fundamental news as you say are very important.

Holding the fewer coins is best when the coin you are holding contains the best of crypto currencies.There is no assurance here that any coin will each this much level of price in future so we are investing based on our own risk,you also hold the coins if you know it better that it will give profits no matter of how many coins.

Now it is necessary to consider for the purchase of digital assets such projects that have a small capitalization, a promising product or service and a small number of tokens released into circulation, they can give a good growth

This is a correction suggestion, there's a lot of changes in the project, you should be monitoring it properly, hence buying few coins will be easy for you to monitor as long as you are buying a high potential coin, this could result to a huge profit in the long run.

Big project normally delivers great result, especially if you hold longer as its development will surely continue.

I think, focusing on a few coins will make it easier for you to control the profits of the coin. well, maybe the advantage of having lots of coins is to allow one to pump. however, I prefer to hold only a few special coins. it can be easier to control, whether to prevent risk, or encourage profit.

50% bitcoin, 30% eth, 20% mixed of 5 coins. I would act in this way if I were a beginner.

I think if you just want to holding for long-term Investment BTC , ETH and BNB is the best for you.
Don't hold many coin and just take coin who will make good growth next time.
50% BTC 30%ETH and 20%BNB is the best choose.

For prices we can choose stable coins, but remember not for the long term. You can invest a maximum of 2-3 weeks. For the long term, bitcoin remains the top choice.

the safest risk is also to hold a few coins but have a good future like ethereum and bitcoin, but there may be some other coins which are also still good for holding in large quantities like litecoin, neo and cardano. I think doing a lot of holding is not a problem as long as the coins are still potential.

if i'm going to hold, i prefer to hold a fewer coins and even might only one coin, easy to monitor and managing the risks.

  If you are conscious about factors like the market cap, profitability and liquidity, you would prefer to HODL few coins than hodling actually a large volume of coins that are not really good when it comes to profitability. In other words, if you have coins like Bitcoin, ETH and Ripple or maybe Litecoin, you would be better off than having many but with low growth prospects.

There is no answer to this question. It depends on the market. For example, when it is down, you should hold all altcoins that you have. Besides, the portfolio should contain at least 10-15 tokens and Bitcoin.

Both is better because even you invest to high market cap still high chance to gain more profit also to the low market cap you can get more profit too. This two have good and disadvantages . For the low market cap your money possible to gain more but do you think the coin will potential? In the high market cap we know the coin is potential but the price turn into double takes long time.

If you yet to take any of the advice given by some of my mate here then I will advise that you should do whatever your mind tells you or just invest your money in Bitcoin, ethereum,and Bitcoin Cash as you have rightly mentioned in your submission above because in my opinion that is the best way for you to make make good profit are the end.

One thing that I have learned from all my time here is that holding the little known alts is not worth the effort. First of all, there is a great chance that these coins will become dormant in a matter of few months. And secondly, you need to store them in the exchange wallets, as installing the desktop wallet for each of them is not a good idea.

i would hold few coins why waste money investing in many coins as many coins are not serious in there project i only invest in good projects

Initially, the question itself is very interesting.  Of course it is good when you have a lot of, but enough high-quality and promising coins in your portfolio.  Nevertheless, each of us works in this business based on our capabilities.  Anyway, our portfolio should consist of at least 10 different promising coins in order to minimize risks.

Holding few coins is better in a way that you do not have to look after a lot coins news and prices. You can very easily manage your portfolio with fewer coins.  but those few coins should be news based good coins.  At the same time, by holding only few coins, you might miss out profit from some other coins which pumps and you miss out on profit.

I think the better is you can hold few coins which will be useful in your future otherwise if you hold huge amount of investment without any use it will not been giving the profit for you in your future that's why I am saying this

Personally, I would rather old only a few coins, simply because it's easy to maintained. And it's good if you are going to hold just a few good coins instead of having to spread it out multiple shitcoins. Preferably coins in the top 10 list will do better as compare to those ICO tokens that you wish will go to x10 to x100 in the future.

Just think about maximizing your profit don't think the words “don't put your eggs in one basket” to literally as if you don't have much to work with then you are'nt really maximizing your money if you put then to several cryptocurrencies. Real traders may even look at it as you being indecisive on what position you will hold and what position you won't. Holding several cryptos only means that you aren't sure with the rest of what you are holding. I would prefer holding 2 to 3 cryptpcurrencies in my portfolio at max so I can also manage them easily in the future.

you need to use capital management to manage your holding alts, because putting all of this money in few alts is risky, hold as many as you can from the good alts and start do a swing trading the one pump first sell and wait to buy again low of but another one did not pump yet. 

you can have a look at this article regarding capital management.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5058478.msg47335445#msg47335445

  The output of your investment will be great if you invest in a precious coin in large quantity. The more the investment is on large scale the more will be the output results. Furthermore, there are several factors which are also involved to make it happen and not only the above 2 factors. Your day-to-day dealing with the crypto market will help you make the right decisions and you sell right away when you find yourself earning massive profit.

If the reason why people are against holding many coins I because of being able to monitor the coins, we have lots of application that helps one keeps track of the development of these coins which is usually trough their value before considering other measures, and one of such application is blockfolio, in my blockfolio.

I have all the list of all my coins in this application, and from there I am able to monitor each and every one of them and even able to trade the ones that can be traded, I am really not against investment in many coins, because what we all do here is try and error and except the coin is Bitcoin and Ethereum, there is no other coins that should be relied on 100 percent.

I would say that holding a few coins that you're sure are very good and will yield you some good profit in the long run is better than holding a lot of shits that are not going to earn you anything in return. I have seen some people that buy lots of shit coins maybe because they are cheap and at the end of it all they will end up not having anything in return, most of them will lose more than half of what they started with, so that is a waste of time. Just go for few coins that you're sure are really good and you will be okay, if one fails, you will still recover from the others.

Holding a lot does not bring many benefits for investment but if the coin has good liquidity, your profit will be much higher than others. In fact, any investment will be risky if you choose long-term investment but if it is a good project, the risk will be greatly reduced. I am personally investing in some of the top coins that are available on this market and I am still making good money up to now.

To some extent I am agree with you idea, it is much better if you invest huge amount of money in one coin or more than one coin, in case of holding it is profitable to invest only in bitcoin and ETH because only both of them are profitable coin, now a day there is very tough competition so we should remain active and hold fewer coins.

Diversified investment is always good, and by the time we need to analyze better and invest on potential altcoins. In the name of investing should not do random pick of coins from the list that has got 2000+ cryptocurrencies. Holding few is also good, but if there is some form of market crash then the portfolio value gets affected in large scale. The same with large number of coins in the wallet the portfolio value won't be affected that high as one coin might experience drop while some will be gaining.

Having a large number of coins to hold might be very hard to handle and is full of risks.It might be profitable if you can handle the stress and fears along with it.That is why some of the people here prefer to hold few but chosen coins that will grow its potentials along with time.It would still be very profitable if all those coins will surely make a pump after holding for a long time.

in my opinion its not ideal amount for portofolio.personally i am prefer to hold only around 6 coins.we could reallocate our fund to this coins in bigger amount.so we will get more profits in price start rising.we will not find the difficulties to monitor the update from team if only 6 coins.

It is not every known altcoins that is not worth given a try for investment or trading, I know the trend has been for new projects for investors, most especially for new investor, which is why some older coins are not seeing much growth again, not because they have had projects, but because investors are beginning to engage more on new projects believing that they will give them better profits.

We still have old projects that people will shift their attention to later in the future when the table turns, because I am not much impressed with newer projects has they having nothing that much to really offer.

I prefer to hold only few coin and these are known profitable for long term. I traded must of the coins that I bought especially the low cap ones and hold some of the tol coins for long term. But in these days where many coins and tokens are created and listed, it better to find the coin where investors will possibly spend their funds. Bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin are experiencing price increases because of the some events related to them.

Holding a few potential coins is always helpful for us to make some decent profit instead of holding multiple small valued coins. That's why many people are kept saying you need to research before investing in any coin, once if you satisfied with your research then you can start investing in it and hold it for long term.

I'm 100% on with this. There are a LOT of old projects that are still holding onto a lot of potential. I myself I got into them 2 years ago and they disappointed me with how they performed in terms of price, but they did not disappoint me in other terms of growth, adoption and development. Their time will come, not just the established ones like Litecoin or Monero, but also the ones sincerely developing like even Byteball.

Holding a lot of coins can be useless most of the times. Having so many coins that you can't even monitor properly or get proper information on all of them is really a waste of time  it is best to invest in few coins that are worth your investment, and the ones that you can easily keep track of and know what's happening in the market and be able to take any action you want quickly. If you keep on investing in small coins you will just end up with loss. I've seen someone that did that and all he got was huge loss, so he had to sell all the altcoins and then invest the little remaining money in Bitcoin. You can even choose Bitcoin alone.

As they say in one famous book, 20% of our actions give us 80% of the result. With coins in the same way. It is better to keep the top 5 coins than 30 different. Diversification is good, but it must have its limits. The more coins you have, the harder it is to manage them, the more mistakes you will make and lose on it.

right, the more coins, then we will be difficult to manage. and of course more time will be needed to examine the coins one by one. therefore focusing on a few coins will maximize our analysis, so that our analysis is more accurate

Not really. Most coins with small market capitalization are new coins, my own, I will not choose such coins to adventure with higher risks. A little variety, and don't forget to give maximum priority to BTC and ETH. I will not trade it all as a gamble. ;) ;)

Why would you even focus on hundreds of coins? If you are trying play a lottery with so many shitcoins and see which one goes up then be my guest, buy every koolaid propaganda shitcoin out there and increase the quantity of your portfolio instead of focusing on the quality of your portfolio. People need to stop listening to promotional content which is posted on social media and platforms like youtube promoted only by bagholders ready to dump their coins.

The more time you spend analysing your shitcoin stash the more time you waste which you could have used in doing something more fruitful.

Having lots of coins will not guarantee you can always get a profit, the most dangerous thing is that you save too much coin and the price falls a lot so it will make you lose a lot.

Your thoughts are correct, but you need to carefully approach the selection of tokens with a small capitalization and a small price,although they have a potential higher, but the top crypto-currencies have a more reliable support

It seems to me that you can have minimal risk and invest your money in more familiar cryptocurrency, which have common known results.  I'm talking about Bitcoin and ethereum.  To date, analysts predict a certain growth, including for ethereum.  Today, the price is approaching $ 290, and if in the near future the ethereum reaches $ 300, it will easily add $ 325.  For those who invest today, there will be a very good indicator for income.  For those who want to take a chance, today there are quite a few promising projects that need investments.  This is BNB, Monero, Energi, Dash and ReddCoin, as well as many others.

  I know people who have been investing in one or two coins since long and those coins have been making some good money for them. I think that it is never about the number of the coins but the fact that if the coins you have are profitable. If you have invested in the right coin, you would be very able to make good money and there is no need to go for other coins. However, for the purpose of diversification, you could do so.

enough with a few coins in the top rank, we will be easy to learn. for beginners it is very easy, trusting bitcoin and ethereum may be enough. and if you want to learn to trade, use a small portion of your capital to buy other coins according to your analysis

This is a good question, because every investor once begins to doubt when he sees that other assets are growing more than those in his portfolio, but you need to understand that they should not grow the same way and you need to count on a long-term period

If you're still yet started into crypto better for you to invest in your best choice asset, let say bitcoin which is most trending coin now among other form of crypto. You can diversify investment in crypto once, you felt like you have enough knowledge with it, like executing buy and sell token or coin in different crypto exchanges site.

Its okay to have many coins but choose those coins that is on top of the list and don’t get too many coins because you might not be able to manage all of them. You can get 1-3 coins in your portfolio but if you think you can manage more then you can add more just make sure you are able to manage them correctly because if you don’t then it will only be a watch of time and money.

It is not a bad idea to diversify into different assets, but provided those assets are quality assets, because it will be a waste of time to store lots of assets in a portfolio for years and watch them standstill without increase, we are all holding this assets for the chance of having an increase in our investment, if it is just a coin that we are sure of making our savings increase, then it’s fine.

What matters most is that we make enough research and be so sure that we get coins that have working products, because only coins with working products are the ones that will continue to grow in value even when the coin is being dumped.

This is a great question and everyone will doubt whether he chose the right assets in his portfolio, because the world of investment is hard to predict the exact behavior of the price and therefore it is better to diversify it

It all depends on how much you want to choose to keep where. The market is unpredictable so you cannot say for sure what is better. If you really trust bitcoin then it is better to HOLD and keep it as an investment for the future. But if you are here for making instant gains go for trading.
Also, go for coins with higher market caps as it is not just about gains but also security!

For me, you can try it all as long you can afford to lose that money that you invest, not telling you to make some stupid move to spend your money. But sometimes its a good move for investment. If you have 50k and want to trade, you can try buying into the small that is much affordable now and sometimes a higher profit if theirs plenty of good news. Also, you can gain a piece of knowledge and new techniques in some affordable way. But if you genuinely want to gain a higher amount I think bitcoin can still surprise you. Anyways just trust your self and your instinct. :)

This question doesn't have a clear answer. On the cryptocurrency market, some things defy this logic. The first thing you should pay attention to is diversification. This is a very important aspect, without which it is difficult to be a successful trader. You must divide your deposit into several parts. Personally, I prefer to divide it like this: 40% in Bitcoin, 20% in the ether, 20% in altcoins and 20% in usdt. At the moment for me this is the ideal proportion. But depending on the overall market situation, I can change my view on distribution.

Do both. Spread risk. Hedge. Just like stock trading and management of any 'traditional' portfolio.

The problem with buying and holding a small cap alt coin is it's just like trying to trade on Penny Stocks.

They seem attractive as it's easier to double your money on a $0.001 value coin (or stock) than on something that's priced at say $100. They seem doubly attractive as you get so many for your money and if they go up you can get a 1000x or 10,000x return.

The problems with this idea, as many have pointed out, is liquidity and volatility risks (along with scams, lack of regulation, ...). There is a very great probability that liquidity (money in the market to buy and sell the token) is being provided by a small number of holders and can be taken away at any time. When they buy in the price jumps, when they sell it plummets. This is in part where the volatility comes from. It's the same effect from pump & dump sessions we see initiated in so many Telegram groups.

However, just because a token is inexpensive doesn't mean it's not one to buy into. If it has a great business case / use case, a solid team backing it, etc. and you understand the field or want to support investment in that area - then buy in and hold through the rough times. History is littered with missed opportunity from startups that no one realised would become so huge. Apple ($0.46 in 1986) beating Microsoft ($0.11 in 1986) or say Coca Cola that never got above $1 until late 1985.

Ok, even for oldies like me the 80's feel like the distant past, but we all wish we'd spotted those and bought shares, we'd be billionaires by now. It's the same with crypto. You can trade the swings, pump & dump or get in at the ICO/IEO and probably lose money - or you can evaluate them against your trading model, invest and hold (so long as the rules of your trading model aren't breached). This is what I personally (i.e. not as a member of the CBF) have done with XRP and PBL. Two very different projects in very different spaces, but I understand the market and feel the projects are sold. Now we wait.

However, do NOT put all your money into small caps / alts unless you love risk and can take the loss of all your capital. Buy into the major projects that might grow more slowly but are more certain to succeed in the long run. That would be like buying into say BP, pretty boring, slow but safe and if you get minced on your alts, these should provide gains enough to offset them.

Don't gamble, hope is not a strategy - analyse, plan then invest.

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In crypto investment it is always good to consider diversifying, the quantity depends on your capability and knowledge to manage them.

For me I prefer to hold fewer coins particularly the popular ones. Why? Because im using the strategy of holding for long period and in this case I need to make sure the coins that I chose are worth hodling and likely to give me profit when the bull run occur.

I'm sure that in any case, you need to split your deposit into several parts, depending on your goal. This needs to be done in order to diversify. If you intend only hold, then consider a few promising coins, including bitcoin and ether. If you are planning to do daily trading, then you can consider different coins. Don't forget to take into account the fact that coins must be liquid. So, if you buy a low-liquidity coin for $5 k, you will not be able to sell it later at the price you want. That is, somebody need to be willing to buy this coin for the amount for which you sell it, otherwise your sale will simply bring down the rate of this coin. And when trading coins with low liquidity, this scenario is most likely.

True that, because very few ICOs actually delivered what they promised and rest of them went in a professional hibernation mode making the investors crazy while the devs slept looking for more "private" investors to suck money from. This is why people should stop this ICO craze once and for all and sell your coins at the first chance you get and abhor any further purchase of shittokens.

To get decent profits the only coin that you need to focus on is bitcoin. None of the copycat coins are ever going to rise second to it. Those are false dreams that idiots have.

Holding fewer good coins is much better approach than holding too many altcoins. With less coins it is easy to manage the portfolio and you will know exactly which price you buy those altcoins. If you have more altcoins it will be difficult to remember each coin buying price.

Low-cap coins often have low volumes of trades, a weak development team and low investor interest. They may also scam and undergo a delisting procedure. Coinmarketcap first-line coins are the most reliable for investment. They are supervised by strong development teams, steps from their white papers are usually executed on time and as a result, their price is easier to predict. I think it is more convenient to hold the best capitalized coins.

Put your investment in more than one basket but it doesn't mean that you are going to spread your investment in almost all the currencies that you like.

It will be best if you will pick only fewer coins like 3-6 investments so you can monitor your investment well and for you to choose the best coins to invest in. If you will be lucky with your investment then you can surely double and even x10 it if the market will hit it's peak season.

More holdings are good but not all times. You cannot easily handle many coins in your portfolio. Specially, if you are newbie in trading. Holding few coins are good because you will easily realize if you are earning or losing your capital. If you have 3 coins in your portfolio, you can determine and plan when and where will you enter the market.

I agree with you. A coin with lower market cap can be a success and lead to big profits however this is riskier that investing in bitcoin.
Personally, I have followed a diversification strategy and have invested in 4-5 coins. I believe that one of them is a risky investment but it will give me big profits, as other 4 are cryptos in the topthat are safer to make lower gains.

Yes this is the right thing you have to do because we cannot expect all the coins to stay a as profitable at the end of the Bull run so we need to be very picky with the coins for our investment to be more profitable at the end of the day. The coin depends on how much capital we are investing and also the profit margin we are looking for.

I think it's better to hold just a few coins than hold many coins. investing must be calculated, if we allocate our funds for something that does not necessarily provide profit, we are losing money and time.

just put your money in 4 or 6 different types of cryptocurrencies but all you have to choose is coins that are in the top 100 crypto capitalization currencies, I don't mean to say that a coin below the 100 is not good, it's just too risky.

I would disagree with that because it's not my style actually.
For me, holding lots of coins can minimize the risk and that makes me more comfortable investing for long term.
What I'm really thinking is maybe if I hold a lot of coins, that could help me find a hidden gem in crypto that could change my life.
As long as the coin has a potential, even if risky, I will not hesitate to buy it but of course with proper fund management.

Agreed, we've got 2000+ cryptocurrencies to invest. Among them there can be life changing assets, but that is really hard to find. When we diversify on large number of altcoins we get our portfolio value almost in a stable way and when when the market turns bullish we'll get a bigger profit out of any one of the asset which is the success of holding large number of altcoins than a limited number.

As stated in the last line without proper fund management nothing can be made to be effective. With cryptocurrency based investment fund management is key factor.

If you still need to choose between Bitcoin and ethereum, then in the near future I hope to get a very good profit thanks to ethereum.  My assumptions are based on the fact that I compare the price level of the beginning of 2018 today.  If you focus on the price of Bitcoin, then ethereum should still be higher than the price you have today, based on the indicators of Bitcoin.  Based on this, I believe that maybe by the end of this year I will be able to increase my funds at least three times.

This isn't thread about bitcoin vs ethereum for profit, question is it's better to hold many coins or not.
Answer on this question is very individual because there are some people who can handle a lot of problems and there are somes who try their best to avoid them. Everything depends on how vigorous you are and how can you manage your time. If you can't do much work at the same time, better to hold few coins. It's always best option to make 2 successful step than 10 unsuccessful or if you can do 2 successful and also 10 successful, then you know it's better to choose 10 step.
I didn't answer it directly but I think my answer is clear.

Both of these are wrong statements because none of them are absolute. While this may come out to be true in one instance it will fail in another instance and thus you cannot universally use them. If you buy too many coins you have actually wasted capital on buying nothing but shitcoins which are never going back up.

This leads to a vicious cycle of depression and anxiety and the only way to get out of it is when you sell, maybe at loss or not. But you wont be getting much of a profit. Luckily if one of those coins skyrocket in price and you manage to sell then you would profit. But the odds of the second outcome is very small.

It matters bro! Many coins should be speculated by only a glance but you need to take time before you launch your execution. It is better to have only few coins because you can see the improvement of your portfolio. In my opinion, we can make a long term and short term portfolio so that we can avoid confusion.

Don`t you think that all depends from persons capabilities and skills to manage more or less coins? Some can handle to keep track of more coins, some are having trouble with just one coin. You can have separate portfolios for your long and short term portfolios, you can arrange your working space as you like, whatever suits you and make things easier for you.
From my experience more coins comes with time, simply you can`t avoid that in long run. There are many good old projects we didn`t notice, new ones appear all the time, your portfolio follows that and from time to time we all add some new coin in our portfolios, FOMO is always in our minds and we buy what we think it will be more popular in the future.

A significant part of my coins in the portfolio is exactly those coins that I not only received while participating in the Bounty campaigns, but also those that I was able to learn thanks to the Bounty companies.  I think that this is the best for me in the sense that I am confident in these projects, since I studied them thoroughly in due time.

Making yourself rich with 50k usd put up on a shitcoin and hoping for some miracle pumps is possible but the question is,which shitcoin should be?

Better to go with established ones rather than risking into unsure coins in the market which wont even give out some light of chance for it to pump.
Put it up and you would be stucked forever.

holding lots of coins or a little coin depends on the type of coin we have. it actually doesn't matter if we choose a coin that really has the potential and makes a profit. will lose if we hold a lot of coins but the coin has no good potential and only makes a loss.

Risk allocation is very important.I have a cryptocurrency for 10% of my portfolio but 51%is reserved to BTC.I have 6 coins.

You must have criteria and reason to stock a coin.Volume is important.Technology and supporting community are also important.I also check the algorithm for production and overall control mechanism.

And after reviewing all the opinions, perhaps a small number and of good quality, can be profitable for the future is what people will choose, I also agree because if we choose too much altcoin, we will be easy to choose, without certain criteria for the product we choose, a few years later, the garbage in our wallet increased dramatically, wasting too much of our resources. Instead of letting our own selves become garbage containers, we should have certain rules in choice, safe and profitable, those are the criteria to emphasize.

True,, having more than what you can keep track of leads to mismanagement and unnecessary anxiety and panic. This leads to people making wrong decisions and mistakes that can be avoided by keeping a short and simple portfolio. I feel bitcoin and a few of the top10 coins except the forked coins is enough of a good portfolio.

Although I agree with your first comment I would avoid being involved in any such "project" because 99% of then ended up with either forcing KYC to get token swapped or devs abandoning the project due to either lack of funds and so on. Bitcoin on the other hand wont stop at these things.

If you were not really familiar with cryptocurrency right now, and you were doubting about which to own and how much you wanted to spend, you may choose from top 10 to top 20 crypts, If you're planning for long term investment, for those are the most stable cryptos.

It's been better to have 4 to 5 cryptos on portfolio while experimenting, than, owning too many and unable to manage.

If you have 50K, don't spend it all, divide it, think about yourself, ask again, how long you're willing to HODL you cryptos, are you still able to sustain your lifestyle, even if you lost everything.

Of course, it is better to have a small amount of coins. For example, 10-15 coins (including coins for trade and coins for holding) are enough. You should always remember that it will be difficult for you to keep track of a large number of coins and all your free time will be spent on watching charts and news. I think that for an ordinary trader, especially if you have a main job, and you use crypto trading as additional income, this amount of coins is quite enough.