I think you should take those steps into considerations, hope this helps:

Know the people behind them
It is critical to know the nature of the company and the teams behind ICOs. Most of the companies are newly incorporated, but many founders have been around in their respective industries. It is possible to review profiles and search for news and mentions in their prior projects and efforts.

Go for disruptive concepts
As far as the concepts behind these startups, the adage of offering unique and valuable holds. Due to the ease of holding ICOs, many startups have fallen into the me-too trap, where they only seek to be a better, cheaper, faster version of an already existing service. Unless they offer something unique, chances are these startups are just bound to compete rather innovate.

Understand the target market
It is important to put the company, their technology, and product or service in the context of their target market. They will inevitably be subjected to the market and regulatory pressures of their target industries, so knowing the environment should give you an idea of what challenges and opportunities these ventures face.

Evaluate the technology
One can also evaluate the viability of a venture through its proof of concept. Ventures with proofs of concept and pilot case studies are often safer bets. ICOs that offer nothing more than an idea bear significant risk compared to ventures that have proofs of concept already available for evaluation and testing.

Nitpick the white paper
A white paper serves as the company’s pitch to potential investors. As such, it should be well-written and substantial enough to provide compelling arguments on why people should trust the venture with their investments. Nitpicking the white paper could prove useful in revealing the details of how their solutions work and what need areas they will be addressing.

Know what the coins are for
Integral to ICOs are the coins or tokens themselves. Aside from functioning as the form of security (similar to stocks in traditional investments or initial public offerings), these coins often have other functions with the platform or ecosystem.

While Bitcoin is created as an alternative to regular money and is thus a medium of payment transaction and store of value, Ethereum is developed as a platform which facilitates peer-to-peer contracts and applications via its own currency vehicle. While Bitcoin and Ether are both digital currencies, the primary purpose of Ether is not to establish itself as a payment alternative (unlike Bitcoin) but to facilitate and monetize the working of Ethereum to enable developers to build and run distributed applications.

One of the foremost advantages of investing in ICOs is the chance of investing in a new or upcoming technology. Every single ICO is established to revolutionize an industry in one way or the other. A careful analysis of ICOs could help investors get on board to the right startup.

Most of the ICOs price their tokens modestly, allowing even small investors to participate in the sale. Un-like a traditional IPO, small investors have a chance to invest little money, and in the event that the underlying project does well, the investor reaps tremendous returns in the future.

ICOs follow the limited supply-demand principle, allowing their cryptocoins to gain value in the future. Its initial investors could leverage the economic prominence of the principle, increasing their chances of profiting exponentially.

In the current cryptocurrency environment, you can use crypto-tokens to purchase the services offered by the underlying company. If the cryptocurrency gains popularity and market trust, chances are that you can use it for third-party purchases, just like Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the “original” cryptocurrency and ultimately responsible for the invention of blockchain technology. It basically was (and still is) a beta test of the technology, and it doesn’t actually work all that well. Many bitcoin evangelists now refer to it as “digital gold” or a “store of value” since it basically no longer works as a currency for most people. Can you imagine going to the market and paying $25 in fees and waiting 4 hours to pay for your groceries? Obviously that is not realistic.

Altcoins are generally defined as “everything else.” Although some might not refer to Ethereum as an altcoin, but certainly the 1500 other coins out there are considered “alts.”

I'm currently expecting good return on my investment on XRP, NEO, Strat, Monero.
I just sold all BTC last month cause its future was doubtful.

There is a lot of hype around Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies today. We are almost certainly in a bubble and the price will come down. It might even crash. But the problems that Ethereum solves are substantial. The technological innovation that the platform provides is unmatched by any other blockchain. This innovation ties back to the supply of Ethereum and makes it valuable.
Because of this, I'm long on ETH. I buy daily in small increments because no matter how much the value will crash, I believe ultimately it will be worth more than it is today. There are risks involved in this, of course, but I think the potential reward is worth it.

I found this useful article about how to evaluate coins/tokens. In summary, it lists out the steps to determining whether we should invest in a coin or not: take a look at CoinMarketCap, Write down the current price of the coin, circulating supply, max supply, daily volume and market cap and Do research on its whitepaper. Full article here, hope this'll help: https://medium.com/@therealtimforrest/the-right-way-to-evaluate-a-cryptocurrency-781476d263b3

Thank you for your useful article. I'm looking into whitepapers of some ICOs and found out that there's much to understand an ICOs, about the dev team, company's location, company's reliability, their policies, how they introduce their own coin,... Evaluating coins is not easy, not through statistics on coinmarketcap only

To me investing in ICO is not that risky since it is is the creation and sale of digital or virtual tokens on a blockchain distributed public ledger. 3 factors that encourage people to invest in ICOs are: Liquidity, Democratizing investments and Potential for high gains. This can be proved by some successful ICOs like Filecoin, EOS, NEO,..

Personally I think this is gonna happen.

Undoubtedly, ETH offers lots of advantages, the most important of which is that it acts as a smart contract system. Ethereum allows decentralized apps to be built on its blockchain, creating a synergistic effect that increases its value as more projects are added to it.
Also, Ethereum has slowly creeped into Bitcoin’s market share, which has tumbled to nearly half its 90% stake just four months ago. In that same time frame, it has quadrupled its market share to 30%. Given current trends, it would not be surprising to see Ethereum take the lead within even a few months.

I am researching on Cypherium. This is a team constructed of developers with backgrounds at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, and they are developing a new blockchain, that will be highly scalable and permissionless. Their multi-level governance design, an absolutely unique feature, has been designed and implemented from the ground up. The Cypherium blockchain separates governance at both the protocol and application layers.
Its CEO, Sky Guo notes, "There are very few teams who can build what we are attempting to build. We believe that Cypherium will not only resolve scalability issues, but also help blockchain technology break into the mainstream."

Btw, I usually get news on upcoming & ongoing ICOs on this website https://www.listico.io/ hope this'll help

manny reason: Market capitalisation is an inexact measure of cryptocurrencies (as Business Insider Australia's Sam Jacobs has outlined), but it at least gives a good idea of the scale of the ongoing sell-off.

The crypto market has been on the back foot since the start of the year, hit by fears of a regulatory crackdown and slipping Asian volumes. Bitcoin is now at less than half its December peak of over $19,000.

More concerns have emerged about the sector this week as Facebook banned cryptocurrency advertisements and US regulators began investigating tether, a cryptocurrency that some fear has been used to inflate the value of bitcoin.

India's finance minister also said this week that the Indian government "does not consider cryptocurrencies legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate use of these crypto-assets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payment system."

and Altcoins's price depend on bitcoin's price.

As someone who pays a lot of tax in the UK, I don't do it happily because of the services I receive for the money. My taxes so far exceed the cost of those services that I would be massively better off paying privately instead.

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exactly what I mean to say!!! gold stays with time so anyone wants something stable, this must be gold. but anyone dare take risks, then btc is worth trying. I can say gold is kinda savings while btc is investment. btw, seem like u r very positive bout the btc future dude  

u will  need money, staff,.... ez to say but hard to do. launching a project is just complicated as it is always  now I hav a team with me, working so hard but got nowhere. we are, I can say, green to this horizon. all I can tell u  is Be patient and try harder man

tks for ur links, guys. and for the question, Im sure this forum will save ur game, I mean ur BTC game 

I see so many things here guys  still dunno what I should use. Can anybody tell me the MOST RELIABLE one?  are there deals or terms to protect our coins?

I think we should have expert reference before deciding on buying or selling. Im not sure, but I thinnk it's a good time to buy now and wait some more to sell. 

I choose btc as I wanna try on some kind of investment. I think if not be so 'crazy' about it, it should be kind of safe investment   btw, it's quite a brainstorm thing so I have an interest on it