Expanding my portfolio

[V.Pelewin]

Been a longtime silent reader and am very grateful to this community. There is a lot of rubbish being posted here but also so much to learn and some really bright minds.

I was a little late to Bitcoin (or so I thought) and my first investment was in XMR which is still my favourite and my majority holding.

Recently, I've decided to expand my portfolio and am looking to get some feedback. I've based my investments on the information I've found mostly here and am looking for solid projects which are still undervalued. I know that some will argue that everything is in a huge bubble now and must pop while others think that crypto is just in it's infancy and will grow to much bigger volumes. I think corrections will always be there but as a long time investor this doesn't really matter as cryptocurrencies will grow much more and gain importance in the future.

I am only interested in long time holding and have no interest in day trading and don't mind the volatility. XMR hast taught my to keep calm during the bumps on the road.

My holdings are the following (in order of volume I hold):

- XMR
- BTC
- ETH
- AEON
- SHIFT
- ARK
- VIA (apparently they have a new developer and lots happening here)
- BAY
- NXS
- STRAT
- BLOCK
- MER
- LBC
- DAR
- XEM

I know there are more interesting coins but I don't have that much to invest, so I had to make a choice...

[shamzblueworld]

Nice looking portfolio, some big coins there. Why not Ripple?
And for how long have you kept these coins or this is your recent investments?

[V.Pelewin]

Ripple scares me, there are so many and the majority is owned by a corporation. I like to believe in a project (like I did (and  still do) with XMR when I first invested in it) and that's hard for me with Ripple. I also have problems with ETH (for example it not being decentralized). The main reason I bought ETH (just a few at 40$) so it wouldn't upset me anymore when it rose. But I think it would be a big blow to the world of crypto if ETH was number one.

I bought some SHIFT at $0,40 and made some good returns so far but I am staying in as this seems like a really good project.

I bought Stratis at $3,70 and it went up after that.

I don't have a lot to invest but I don't depend on making any immediate returns so I want to hodl long time in the chance of making a small fortune. I also want to support the projects I believe in and holding long time is a good way of doing so. Some people on this forum seem to only see crypto as their pump and dump vehicle and do not appreciate how amazing this technology is.

[HardFireMiner]

Nice portfolio, good job, I am a more shy crypto holder, so my list consist of:
BTC
ETH
ETC
Expanse
Musicoin
Siacoin

In that order

[ymig1]

Add ZEN

[V.Pelewin]

Any other opinions? Is there anything I should add or remove?

Why ZEN? How does it distinguish itself from ZCL?

[Speakmore]

I just got into this a bit recently (been reading forum sites for close to 3 weeks now) and have made a few investments (not sure it's `a lot` - depends on your definition of a lot, relatively speaking) which can be viewed here if you're interested.

I see you're already in STRAT, so my second biggest holding will be my potential suggestion to read up on:

Waves (WAVES):
https://wavesplatform.com/
https://blog.wavesplatform.com/waves-whitepaper-164dd6ca6a23
http://wavescommunity.com/
http://wavesplatform.herokuapp.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wavesplatform/
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/waves/
Ways to buy: http://wavescommunity.com/buy-waves/

This should give you a decent start, the rest is up to you! I don't encourage you invest without researching yourself, so best of luck buddy!

[Gandalf86]

You seem to have the right attitude! If you want my personal advice: Try to catch smaller coins BEFORE they get big. Waiting and searching for such a coin is the main activity of investors like us, and it can take a long time and patience until you find it. That way, you can easily make 100x profit within a year or so, depending on your talent for finding promising projects. Personally, I (usually) don't buy any coins that have a market cap over 500K USD.

[LuciferUA]

I just got into this a bit recently (been reading forum sites for close to 3 weeks now) and have made a few investments (not sure it's `a lot` - depends on your definition of a lot, relatively speaking) which can be viewed here if you're interested.

I see you're already in STRAT, so my second biggest holding will be my potential suggestion to read up on:

Waves (WAVES):
https://wavesplatform.com/
https://blog.wavesplatform.com/waves-whitepaper-164dd6ca6a23
http://wavescommunity.com/
http://wavesplatform.herokuapp.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wavesplatform/
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/waves/
Ways to buy: http://wavescommunity.com/buy-waves/

This should give you a decent start, the rest is up to you! I don't encourage you invest without researching yourself, so best of luck buddy!

Waves has a promissing future that is for sure. I would add Lisk, and depending on how the ICO turns out Bancor.

[loreRex]

XMR on top? So you really think that anonymity will be of primal importance in the future? I'm not convinced at all, the good thing is that XMR is still a sub 100 dollar coin and it's reasonable to see 100-200 dollars in the future, but then I would sell there.

BTC and ETH are the real long term.

In the list, Ark seems to me the most promising.

I would personally add  Golem, Litecoin and Aragon, and reduce XMR to third spot.

[powergear]

Spectrecoin, iExec, Synereo, Aeternity (ico ended lately) and komodo

[krypt0n1]

You seem to have the right attitude! If you want my personal advice: Try to catch smaller coins BEFORE they get big. Waiting and searching for such a coin is the main activity of investors like us, and it can take a long time and patience until you find it. That way, you can easily make 100x profit within a year or so, depending on your talent for finding promising projects. Personally, I (usually) don't buy any coins that have a market cap over 500K USD.

What are some of your main criteria other than market cap? How far do you go into fundamentals of the project?

[Gandalf86]

You seem to have the right attitude! If you want my personal advice: Try to catch smaller coins BEFORE they get big. Waiting and searching for such a coin is the main activity of investors like us, and it can take a long time and patience until you find it. That way, you can easily make 100x profit within a year or so, depending on your talent for finding promising projects. Personally, I (usually) don't buy any coins that have a market cap over 500K USD.

What are some of your main criteria other than market cap? How far do you go into fundamentals of the project?

• Innovative tech, i.e. could we use another coin to achieve the same thing?
• Simple idea. If I don't understand the concept within a few minutes, I'm not interested
• Not too big. This is the same for market cap as for ICO. Too many people wanting their part of the cake is not good for profit.
• Catchy name.
• Good and communicating and friendly dev, who's not primarily interested in profit but innovation. This one is VERY important.
• Dev is NOT concerned about getting on big exchanges quickly.
• The thread has a positive spirit.
• People say it's undervalued.

Sometimes not all of these points have to be fulfilled, but most of them.

[25hashcoin]

I would take a look at ETC and CLOAK.

[krypt0n1]

You seem to have the right attitude! If you want my personal advice: Try to catch smaller coins BEFORE they get big. Waiting and searching for such a coin is the main activity of investors like us, and it can take a long time and patience until you find it. That way, you can easily make 100x profit within a year or so, depending on your talent for finding promising projects. Personally, I (usually) don't buy any coins that have a market cap over 500K USD.

What are some of your main criteria other than market cap? How far do you go into fundamentals of the project?

• Innovative tech, i.e. could we use another coin to achieve the same thing?
• Simple idea. If I don't understand the concept within a few minutes, I'm not interested
• Not too big. This is the same for market cap as for ICO. Too many people wanting their part of the cake is not good for profit.
• Catchy name.
• Good and communicating and friendly dev, who's not primarily interested in profit but innovation. This one is VERY important.
• Dev is NOT concerned about getting on big exchanges quickly.
• The thread has a positive spirit.
• People say it's undervalued.

Sometimes not all of these points have to be fulfilled, but most of them.

Thanks for taking the time to share and write that out!

[gvozdik]

and is here today any similar inovative, not to big and cheap coin? Maybe Verge?

[Pierre 2]

Verge is good coin, but I can't be sure to see if its gonna be pumped.
But you can hold it in your portfolio just normally, its safe coin.
I also like Waves.

[gvozdik]

Pierre 2 thanks, and what you think about Sia?

[CoinCollector006]

Hello V Pelewin. i think you have a decent portfolio and I sure a number of names with you BTC, ETC, XMR, NEM, DAR , VIA, BAY, NXS

Other names with potential are ABY, ZEN, VOX. All of these are below $15M market cap so have multi bagger potential.

In the higher market cap range you can consider FCT and SC. even if you don't have much to invest $50 to $100 can make a large difference on the low market cap cryptos. if you have any doubt of this please look at the chart of Verge or Reddcoin.

[copperKO]

Recommend looking into ubiq and waves, both very active and growing projects, probably still undervalued