I honestly feel like you are in a great position with ripple right now to top of your list Bitcoin is a very slow grow coin at this point and if you were looking for good gains in 2018 ripples your best bet and despite what people say Ripple is not tied to bitcoin it is one of the only coins that continues to perform well when Bitcoin tanks. I'll also tell you this there is a lot of misinformation about Ripple going on Ripple Network and xrp the currency are two totally different things that rely on each other. As others have suggested I would also suggest investing in some usable coins if it doesn't have a real life use case I don't foresee it being successful, for me I just pulled out of verge entirely I don't feel as though that coin will grow any further than what it is and may end up disappearing off of the map.