Totally New to Ethereum, but now looks like going down. What is the best advice for newbie to Altcoin and specially Ethereum, is it good to buy now or wait little bit ? if wait how long and what price should newbie can buy ? Thanks
Best advice is: do your own DD and don't listen to others for crypto investment advice. If you cannot do due diligence by yourself then stay out of crypto investments. 95 percent of all crypto coins are junk. Created only to enrich its "developers" (better: copy cats).
Reading this thread starting from page 1 was really big fun. There were so many BS postings that you cannot take 90 percent of these posters seriously. Ethereum is IMHO a crypto coin built by highly intelligent folks with a huge potential. There are also risks that Ethereum might not succeed. As always the calculation is RISK versus potential REWARD. While risk is non zero, potential reward is IMHO huge.
Hint: forget copy cat coins...
Amen
Well said and totally salient advice.
Thx for the flowers
Some additional hints for a newbie investor:
When evaluating a crypyo investment...
* First visit coin's homepage. Some coins even don't have a working homepage (lol).
* Who are the developers? Look at developer pictures. Sometimes an image says more than those 1000 words written/copied into a "white paper".
* What have these devs done before? (Bitcointalk and Google are your friends). If the only professional experience of a "coin founder" is his prior employment as a trollbox moderator (UTC coin) - is this a good or a bad sign? If a developer has abandoned 2 previous projects, how high are the chances that he will abandon/crash that 3rd project you are investing in (LISK)? A successful coin needs a good business model and top developers. Good marketing is a plus.
* Check Reddit, Twitter for that coin. Only a few postings, no new postings, no active developer AND user community are very bad signs.
* Is your prospective investment a first mover or a copy cat of a copy cat coin (bitcoin->litecoin->feathercoin)? Copy cats without a distinctive new feature set will never win against its parent coin. To succeed they would have to grow FASTER than their parent coin. To grow faster, that new coin has to offer some features which are unique and are sought after by the market.
* If YOU think that your prospective investment has a really good reward to risk ratio then buy and hold it. Daytrading is for pros (but not for newbies) or for those folks who are in need accumulating bragging points. Most daytraders (and gamblers
) are lying to themselves and others about their successes.
* If you are investing early in a successful coin, it doesn't matter whether you bought in at price x or price x+50 percent. If you where buying bitcoin before 2013, each entry price was OK. Instead of mining use your hardware money and buy that coin. Much better reward if you are expecting a longterm rising coin value.
* Never trust swarm intelligence in a forum like Bitcointalk. Instead of swam intelligence you'll often find swarm
Dunning Kruger effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect .
Good look and don't get greedy