tonight's action will be interesting with DAO trading starting tomorrow.
why buy DAO after the ICO closes?
FOMO, most likely. The DAO got a lot more publicity than did Lisk.
yes, it has had a huge amount of publicity and everyone knows about it, and that's my point. the scale of the ICO buy reflects that. in my view everyone who wants to be in is in. there will be no sudden additional 'discovery' buy pressure at launch tomorrow.
people are not sitting on their hands this evening desperately waiting to jump in and buy more DAO on launch. they can buy more now. the only reason to wait is to hope for a price fall on launch.
You could be right, but the same logic also applies to hot ICOs like Lisk and (atm) Waves. To be quite frank, I refrained from buying any ICO Ethereum on precisely those grounds: the number of BTC pouring in was so huge - ~4,600
BTC in the first twelve hours - I couldn't see how it was possible to earn an ROI.
I honestly don't know how the first day of trading will play out. In a way, it doesn't matter because the real ROI comes with holding long-term.