You take part in a ICO campaign because you had made research and thought that the project is worth your effort, so when you get paid at the end of ICO you would make appropriate decision on the tokens. ALL depending on your financial needs you could either sell them right after the ICO for cash to pay for daily expenses or hold them for longer time in hope for better gain. These tokens were given free for your campaign effort , so making either decisions , the end result is still the same, and the difference is only the amount of profit you get.

Most investors especially newbie are very impatient of the market because they are influenced by many crypto get rich stories, thus have unrealistic expectation. They forget the basic fundaments of trading: that is be patient to do research on the coins you intend to invest, be patient to wait for good price to enter, finally be patient to wait for the price to rise to profitable level. In fact many bitcoin millionaires had been holding the coins for many years.

Altcoins value depends on several factors. First the success of the projects and their markets. Second the number of investors and the community and their involvement in promoting the respective coins or projects. Third the real world use and intrinsic value of the coins. Finally the most important is the supply and demand of the coins.

 For investment you have to use your own money , and naturally will be very carefully and selective on which coins to buy and thereafter will pay more attention to monitor the market, and such  I think investment have better chance of making profit. By doing bounty campaigns and airdrop what you pay is your time and effort and not own money, so mentally tend to be less selective  as a result the free coins we get might not backed by prospective projects. Also because it's free most of us will not spend more time to monitor their price and would as a result miss cashing them at good price.

I suggest IOTA, a revolutionary next generation public distributed ledger that utilizes a novel invention called a Tangle which is a new data structure as such it has no block, no chain and also no miners. Even though it is still in developing stage, it had already received significant investment from reputable venture capital company the Borch Group , thus providing great credibility to the project. It has a strong , very experienced and talented, dedicated team who vow to make IOTA into a trillion dollars company. It is trading @ about 2.00, I think it can 3x easily by end of 2018.

For every ICO campaign I take part I made thorough research, so I am quite confident of the success of the projects, so when I am given the bounty rewards I intend to hold them for long enough time to realise the value and full potential of the projects. Also since I get these bounty rewards free of charge and I don't need the money I am more likely to hold to wait for greater return.

Most coins and tokens are issued during ICOs to raised fund for their projects which normally need some time to transform into finished products. Investors of these coins or tokens naturally need patience to wait for products to be marketed before reaping good profit. However for some coins where their projects progress report is not forth coming, serious consideration should be given to dump them immediately. In crypto or any other investment markets , patience should be applied sensibly , otherwise unnecessary loses will result.

Most ICOs are issuing tokens to raise fund to develop their projects which might have to take sometime to develop into finished products ready for the market. Committed investors believing in the potential of the projects are willing to hold the coins till the value of the projects is fully price in before they sell for good profit of which it can be 10x.

 Since most ICO projects are in development stage, the price of the tokens we invested has not factor in the value of  completed projects, so in order to reap good gain investors need to hold the tokens for reasonable length of time for the projects to complete and market. I hold long term some tokens backed by promising projects managed by team of experience managers. However if the price of my tokens get exorbitantly high I would sell some of them, and buy back later when the price come down.

Crypto market is a volatile market so its natural to see drastic price movements, I would not be alarmed and panic to sell my token holdings if their prices swung against me due to general market condition ,as I believe my tokens are backed by very promising projects and run by capable managers will reap good profit in time to come. However if a certain token price trading in high volume breach my cut loss level, I would sell first before find out the cause later.

I research on many ICOs before decide on doing their bounty campaigns, and usually I spend about 2 to 3 hours a day all depend on the number of campaigns I have. I just finished one doing blogs earning about US$ 1500. and this is very good reward for writing 4 blogs. I like doing bounty campaigns as putting much effort to research will have good chance of landing good paying ICOs. I am working hard to get better ranking so that I could get better rewards for my work.

No investment is 100% safe, and all investment carries certain degree of risk, and the risk is much more higher to participate in ICOs. Some ICOs are backed by solid projects and management team with large followers, naturally the value of their coins will gain , a lot of ICOs are just scams, any investment with these ICOs will be total loss. To minimize risk, much research have to be done before participate in any ICO.

Every one of us, because of our investing background, the coins we hold, will most lightly  give you biased opinions of what we consider as the best coins. To be fair to yourself , it's best you put in some hard work to research on some of the coins you have selected ,on their projects, management team, project progress etc. After that you can make informed comparison with the successful one and decide . I am holding Ether, Neo, Drg.

Generally speaking I would suggest Ethereum and Neo as both of their blockchain technologies are widely adopted and used for various applications, and the coins are also widely followed. At the moment their prices are hovering at support levels same as those just before the last explosive breakout. At these prices I expect to profit x3. I am invested so my opinion is biased. I suggest you do your homework to find your jewels.

I agree with Tipster that for certain coin the moon only appear at some stage of the coin's life, once missed never to return again. I hold some xspec @ US$2.50 when it went up to 6.00 plus I didn't take profit and eventually have to cut painfully loss at 1.00. After this painful lesson,my conclusion is only  good coins with very sound fundamentals worth holding and even then I would definitely take profit when their prices reach exorbitant level.

The price of ETH has come down a lot from the historical height, and is now technically supported at US$300 to 400 range , the previous congestion before the explosive breakout. I start accumulate some at this level and would buy more if the price dips to around 300. No one can tell the direction of the price ,and since I believe in the potential of ETH I reckon I have to hold it for longer term to realise its profit.

More bounty participants is good for the ICO projects, it mean that this projects is made known to more people and potential investors. As long as the ICO project is good and successful, I don't think any participant will mind how many tokens he gets paid in the end. Any regulation and allocation is really up to the bounty manager, and don't think imposing any rigid official regulation will do any good to these free for all ICOs.

Crypto market is a very speculative place to trade, with all negative news, players should expect such prolonged price slump, I don't think it is going to collapse , its only a prolonged consolidation, very much affected by the general mood of the stock markets. I am collecting the good coins which are now trading at very attractive prices. I think when the stock markets stabilize , the crypto market will move explosively when trigger by some good ,positive news.

Suggest DRG the Dragon coins, ICO 15 Mar 2018, is trading in quite a number of exchanges at about US2.40, its backed by revolutionary fintech  solution which is already been adopted by some casinos in Macau to facilitate fast ,safe, fund transfer in and out of Macau casinos for a fraction of the cost of original system, resulting in great saving for the gamblers and casinos. Foreign casinos in Korea are in negotiation to adopt as well. I think it has more room to move.

I will hold on to my ETH and DRC for now, and would add NEO and increase my portfolio of ETH and DRC when the stock markets stabilize. I believe this will be the time the crypto market will experience an explosive upwards movement triggered by some positive crypto news. The crypto markets are excessively oversold at the moment.