I had a bunch of alt coins during the ride up this year, but unfortunately sold them before the recent spikes these past few weeks. Managed to still profit about $25k. Now I'm looking to dump all them in one or two alt-coins for the long hold, of course not including BTC.

If you were me, what would you choose?

Currently have a list of the following:

XLM
BAY
XMR
ETH
STRAT
STEEM
WINGS
XEM
KMD
MAID
ETC
EDG
GNT
LUN
PIVX
VTC
RLC
ARK
GCR
TRST

Please give me your honest critique. What you think is the best hold, worst hold, long term play vs short term play, etc.

Looks like we've had a surge not just in bitcoin but other alt-coins recently these past couple months. Even if you look at the top 100 altcoins, they've been recently rising. What do you all think? Do you think we'll keep seeing an uptrend, or is this all a pump from the hype it's been getting recently?