It depends on your skillset or perseverance towards your goal. If you are planning to invest then its not so easy in short time to earn regularly 1K$ per month and If you want to earn from bounties I would say try to get more merit and be a full member atleast because earning depends on your forum rank. In bounties major source of income is from signature campaign but it depends on your rank as well. Apart from this from investment point of view you can start with Masternode, Mining, Staking these are also the good source of earning for regular income. If you don't want to invest I would say focus on bounties.
Your performance as a newbie into crypto market is very good so far you took the things seriously and perform well. Your results totally depends on your focus and perseverance. Anyone can do the same if he/she seriously doing bounties in a proper way with perseverance. Even I have read your other article about how to join or choose bounty that is worth to read for newbies. One should not loose hope when a bounty fails. He/she should keep doing bounties sooner or later result will be positive.
I am happy that my friend insist me one and half year back twice or thrice to start crypto trading but I was not interested that much. He keep insisting me but when he shows me his portfolio of crypto coins. I was amazed and started crypto trading on his words but I studied hard and research about coins after that Now I am doing trading independently. Obviously I am interested to earn money that's why I started crypto trading. I am very happy now crypto currencies changes my financial life totally.
There is a lots of stuff over google, youtube and on this forum to learn trading and apart from this many traders are claiming that their signals are very perfect but honestly speaking one should do his own research do not believe on others signals and should learn some fundamentals and technicals of trading before buying an altcoin and your above explanation is also correct take some time to research before selecting any altcoin. Do not jump into the aggressively rising market in hoping of good profit.
I have many types of altcoins that includes bounty and airdrop coins and having bitcoin at the moment. I am not planning to sell my coins. I will wait another 1-2 year more to expect good ROI because I know coins value will increase gradually. I will convert my crypto to fiat after 2 years till then I would hold. I am a long term holder. This is booming industry and I am expecting it will survive for many years.
You never know which project coin give you good return after holding for few years. Even I believe in it. It depend on project to project. I also hold some 4-5 good project coins my planning is to hold atleast for next 2 years and I am positive about the project and there is no use to dump the coins the moment you receive from bounties its most of the time worth off to hold. Have patience and reward will be fruitful.
You can consider many crypto currencies for good return. But I would suggest you to invest in Bitcoin, Dash and Ethereum. Invest in all three coins that way your investment divided in 3 parts and risk will be lesser as depend on single coin. These three coins might be give you good return as compare to other altcoins because all three coins are well established coin. But do due diligence before move on.