Most of the scam ICOs are having common shits in their whitepaper thats why you can easiy predict what will happen to an ICO by reading its whitepaper,as far as i am concern that best ICO would have a good unique whitepaper,should have both whitepaper and a lightpaper for non technical investors who doesnt have any deep understanding in programming.

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Yes it is when the bounty hunters and investors dumped the coin too hard,you would have a good chance to get the coin below its ICO price which would give you a lot of profits in the future,if the coin is really has strong team and good vision you would be making a lot of money from the coin,and the potential profits would be much bigger as you bought it below the ICO price.

Financial institutions are the ones who are manipulating bitcoin's market,they are getting millions of dollars of profits whenever they are getting the market down or dump and those weak hands are selling in panic,that is how the market works it is the endless cycle of making money in the market just like what forex and stocks are doing.

Even those good lpoking projects are turning into scam,most of these ICO scams looks very legit sometimes they are using other's identity for their project to look impressive and you wont find out which one is are scams unless these people are going to show themselves into some event, that time you will be sure that these people are using their own identity.ICO review websites are getting paid and you shouldnt be getting shit reviews from these websites,know it yourself google everyone in the team if you cant find anything that surely a scam.

Reverse search using the google image search together with their names,if you theres something wrong with their identity stay away.
If they are claiming that they are someone from big companies,try to contact the company so that you will be sure that these people are using their real identities.If doubt that they are real people,do not try to invest or else you will lose your money for sure.

You wont succeed in holding if you arent going to hold solid coins for long term,these coins of doesnt have good potentials from the start that is why you didnt have good outcome from holding these shitcoins,even if you hold these coins for decades these are worthless piece of shits that is why it wont have any good value in the future.

Using your instinct wont get you precise trades,luck doesnt have any place here because the market is too volatile and it could rise and fall all of a sudden so you need to use technical analysis for every trades you are going to have,because it will give you more chance of success in your trades.Doesnt want to use the word but its purely stupidity when you are using intuition.

As far as i know facebook still allow people to promote these ICOs using their profiles in their own will,but if you are violating the terms and conditions of facebook surely you will get disabled especially those spam posting when you are doing social media campaigns so be careful posting these promotional links.

Of course ,this year would be the year of the ICOs and surely altcoins too,a lot of sideways will going to happen as this year would decide which path these cryptocurrencies will take,if most of the countries will allow cryptocurrency adoption we will have massive global adoption,we as the early adopters will be the wealthiest people in the future.

Well technically you didnt lose any amount so you still fine,you just lose a good opportunity to have more money or to gain a lot with ZCL i have heard it has some upcoming fundamentals that is why it is pumpibg well now you have yoyr lessons you need to check both technical and fundamental analysis just to be sure.

Not going to happen unless western union announced it,no this is another FUD from the big players whos bet in XRP,there is no way that blockchain technology will be adapt by these remittances company because they are very centralized.I aint going to support XRP because it is a cancer to our community it could destroy our decentralized community.

If you really believe in bitcoin's future,or in the blockchain technology you will not let bitcoin to be overthrown by these shitcoins,because if someone else can replace bitcoin it would be ethereum,not bitcoin cash,nor any coin.

XRB is better than IOTA and is cheaper than its competitor,the fast transaction confirmations and zero transaction fee,will make this coin to the top.It could replace XRP's position if you ask me,the technology really amazed me to the point that i dont want to use ethereum and bitcoin anymore.