My experience after 1 year of buying ICO !

[chenille]

However much time you invest doing a pre-check on the whitepaper, team, and so on, chances are that the ICO won’t turn out well. According to a New Study: 80% of ICOs are Scams, Only 8% Reach an Exchange:

Very good read, but it would be interesting which period of time was reviewed. Most ICOs building phase after collecting funds came up in a bear market, got the most money when BTC and ETH were very high, but held the collected money in crypto, so all the price went down and collected funds were decreased by high numbers compared to the time when the money was send to participate in an ICO.
Most likely this had a very high impact on the stats and I think if we have a bull market and do an ICO, the numbers are much better. But I agree, also 10 to 20 percent success rate would still be very low.

[lipoicChin]

thank you, sharing very helpful. There is currently no good time for ICO selling projects, with most developers moving their plans to the end of the year or early next year. You can put this article in the beginer & help section more reasonable
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=39.0

Yes, the current market is not favorable for new ICO projects, people should switch to usdt or buy coin in the top. Prices are really cheap now

can not agree more. This is not a good time for launching new ICO. The only think you should do is buying crypto and waiting.

[Buttermellow]

OP you have a good concept and encouraging one if I am going to describe your thread for you are basing on your experience as an investors for a year in buying ICO tokens/coins. I know that it is so hard to choose a project to invest that is why it is good to carefully choose a project to join. But, I am not in favor on investing ICO as we all know that even other country like China and USA are strictly imposing rules on this for their community. The reason behind is that they give statistics that almost 80-90 % of ICO are fraud. You can check google on it because I had also check it and probably they are right.

I know that it is good to buy in an ICO projects for it could have a possibility to earn more in the near future as if you will going to hold your token. Look CHT, I have been watching over this project from more or less 5 months from now and the project has successfully made to more than 5x increase on their token market price even in this bear market. So those who brought it in an ICO had earn on it already. However, to those investors that are only after some assurance investing in a project after some time of watching market price grow is good. I can say that CHT will still go high for more so that is why investing on it is good. Well that is just an example. I may be wrong but as CHT now goes high so probably this one project is truly one of a kind.

[jademaxsuy]

Well, ICO now is not that profiting since as I have observe as somehow I am also lurking and joining some ICO projects in their telegram channel. It seems that many investors and even bounty hunters that are vocal in their channel asking about rewards and listing in an exchange. They got mad all the time knowing that a coin or token price after listing drop its market price to almost half of its ICO price.

[Kakmakr]

I have bought loads tokens from promising ICOs over the years and only about 5% of them lasted for more than 2 years. I think I have been lucky to spot the exit strategy before it actually happens, so I have managed to make a small profit, before it went down. 

The ICOs with long-term potential are always the ones with the strongest use case and that is the secret behind the success of these tokens. So look for the use case and evaluate it's long-term potential based on how disruptive it can be or how innovative it is. 

[Reatim]

Well, ICO now is not that profiting since as I have observe as somehow I am also lurking and joining some ICO projects in their telegram channel. It seems that many investors and even bounty hunters that are vocal in their channel asking about rewards and listing in an exchange. They got mad all the time knowing that a coin or token price after listing drop its market price to almost half of its ICO price.

Not just half most of them goes down 70-90% just a week after listing,so the hunters will take almost no profit since they will be rewarded 2-6 months after listing lol.though some had already given them the the reward but being freezes to sell in exchange
That’s how hard to trust ICO now,and we cannot blame investors for not entertaining projects nowadays and preventing to be a victim again