got it, thanks guys! Your advice is awesome.

what do you mean, the last minutes are indicating a dump? Where do you find a good news source for all this? Seems like everything's kind of disjointed, some of it isn't even in English, and some of it just seems scammy, I'm having trouble finding reliable sources. Sorry for all the questions haha.

Actually, another question, do you happen to know why they're all so bullish right now? Bitcoin's shooting through the roof and that's driving everything else, or people have just decided this is where the money is, or this is just some random aberration, or what?

got it, thank you all! Much appreciated.

I was more thinking that the present pump is the third in the past few years, and I'm going to wait for it to dump and then I'll buy in, would you consider that a viable strategy? Also, what other altcoins would you all recommend? Thank you for the website suggestions!

I'm trying to purchase some coins, specifically Ripple, Dash, and potentially NEM (would love thoughts on good coins to purchase right now), and I'm having trouble finding a website that seems reputable enough to purchase these coins. My goal is to do with them what I've been doing with bitcoin and ethereum, which is to buy, hold for a bit, and then sell before they start declining again (bitcoin especially, for the past four months, has followed a trend of gaining around $2-400 and then dropping $1-300, I'm trading in that range). Can you all recommend any good websites for doing the kind of buying and selling that I want to do? Thank you!