So low market cap is better for investment?

[MintCondition]

That is not correct in my opinion. There are many pros and cons of low market cap altcoins as if they spike up suddenly, you get huge profit, but they suddenly nosedive, you got huge losses. Low market cap means no demand of coin, so low price and low market cap.

It can also be means that the coin are not yet discovered by investors an I think this is the main point of OP for this thread. If you buy in early stage, the chance of making profit is greater than buying a coin on it's price peak. It only requires some FUD and speculation thread for the coin to notice by investors.

[StockBet.com]

I think it is , and it isn't as risky as people say , but there is alot of room to grow.
I don't see why a higher marketcap is less risky.

It depends on the market cap relative to the fundamental value.  This can be somewhat determined with stocks, but it is difficult with cryptos.

In stocks, it is risky when the stock is over-priced (market cap is higher than fundamental value) and less risky when under-priced (market cap is lower than fundamental value).

It's extremely difficult to know if a crypto is over priced or under priced.
 

Nowadays all stocks huge overpriced.

Yes, most stocks are overpriced.  The indexes, such as S&P 500, are overpriced.  Some stocks are insanely overpriced.  Facebook took a needed correction yesterday.  Some stocks are still underpriced.

If the market crashes, there is going to be bloodbath.

[reputation]

so what the op mean when he says low market cap, does it mean the ico period or listed on the exchange for a long time? If it's the former, i think it has great potential, otherwise, it means its a scam at a large probablity

[StockBet.com]

DGB, STR, XRP ... on June now your fund is arround 30%.

From June BTC make more than double.
DGB, STR, XRP = clear SCAM

BTC is very volatile, nevertheless.  In the long run, I'm bullish on BTC.  But in the short run, it can go down 30-40% in a month.

[RonMank]

mmh depends still on the project

[feelideb]

Frankly speaking, low cap is an indicative of low adoption rate. It could mean that the said coin is in few hands and it will be easy to manipulate such coin. But if low cap is as a result of market nature of price, then you may have gold mine within your reach

[tylerik1]

I dont think that only low caps are better for investment. A lot of high cap coins have some great fundamentals and theyre getting more attention when the newbies are rushing the market!

[Freedom24]

This:

Looks legit.

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This picture is clearly.
But I dont think btc is a scam. Eth maybe, but not yet, it can live a long time.
Because eth will let many scamed-ico token living. Eth will eat the fund of ico.

[slaman29]

low marketcap = bigger chance of giving you higher multipliers on your investment but the risk that you lose everything because the project fails/there's no interest in it is rather high.
high marketcap = smaller chance of high multipliers but also small risk of a failed project.

Personally I like to invest in projects with 10-30 mln marketcap.

At paper value, this is a better informed decision (looking at a mid range market cap). But as pointed out, it is still very easy to manipulate market cap with a few big holders (sometimes even just one group that looks like a lot of people). If there was one way to make certain that the traders volume on exchanges are real and amount to the market cap, then I agree with 10-30 mln.

But as we know, even that is easy to fake.

Low cap on the other hand, can also mean a good thing if it equates low manipulation.

[poldanmig]

Not always, as most altcoins today only fare into dumps. The benchmark i invest in altcoin is that have good reputable developers or atleast have a roadmap and reliable reference.

[jlp]

Not always, as most altcoins today only fare into dumps. The benchmark i invest in altcoin is that have good reputable developers or atleast have a roadmap and reliable reference.

The BEST WAY TO DETERMINE THAT IS IF THEY ALREADY HAVE SOFTWARE THAT YOU CAN USE. Everything else is vapor-ware.

The roadmaps and references are useless. They give you a false sense of security.

There have been several projects with large teams, reliable references and roadmaps. After raising multiple millions, they still haven't released any software.

EOS bragged that they have 50 developers. Who knows if that is true. They raised $230 million and said that they were going to release something by end of summer. Nothing yet. With $230 million, they should've solved world hunger by now.

Gnosis raised $12.5 million and their website says that they are releasing their game by first half of 2017. Nothing yet.

Qtum raised $15.6 million. I don't see anything produced on Qtum's website.

After raising $50 million, Cosmos's website is still pitching its white paper. Come on. What have they produced with that $50 million?

MobileGo raised $53 million. Here's the roadmap from their white paper:

May - June: Gamecredits Mobile Store Public Launch
May - June: Gamecredits accepted for mobile store games and in- game content purchases
July - August: first centralized tournaments on platform

However, I don't see any of that on their website. They're mainly bragging about how their token is on exchanges. What are they doing? Day-trading their own token? Roadmap is useless.

[xbiv2]

DGB, STR, XRP ... on June now your fund is arround 30%.

From June BTC make more than double.
DGB, STR, XRP = clear SCAM

[oreits11]

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[Koadharber]

Frankly speaking, low cap is an indicative of low adoption rate. It could mean that the said coin is in few hands and it will be easy to manipulate such coin. But if low cap is as a result of market nature of price, then you may have gold mine within your reach

This is the disadvantage on having a low supply which it can really be easily be manipulated specially to those who hold lots of coins this is why i dont really have much interest on this coins because for sure there are people who are just waiting for new comers for them to dump on the coins that they are holding.

[russen]

It is actually risky but you can invest low amount. Before you buy anything, do your research first and make sure that the coin you are about to buy has a future.

[disk546434]

So low market cap is better for investment?
It mean we dont have huge amount of coins ready for sell?
https://image.ibb.co/jxdeR5/syscoin_amazon.png

Depends. Low market cap is big reward, but big market cap is proven project, less reward for less risk.

[erjanite]

low market cap doesn't mean it is better investment than those established ones. They have low market for a reason.

[RieL]

going to low market cap means that you can have more risk but more gains and it just like a double edge sword and this is has a big chance to failing to zero.for the high caps although it is a big price but the prize won't get bigger like 100x and also it is unlikely to fade to zero.look at the bitcoin eventhough 10x it is not like for short term of even with medium term unlike the low caps ones with BTC i wont get easily to collapse and if the BTC collapse all the other crytocoins is going to down also

[williamevanl]

Idiots think this. It's like thinking you will make the most money by investing in low market cap stocks. It's the absolute worst thing you can do. 99 out of 100 times you will lose a ton of money.

It's good to be an early adopter but you can buy the highest marketcap Bitcoin and still be an early adopter. Go out on the streets and ask everyone you see how many own Bitcoin.

[TomUyamot]

Idiots think this. It's like thinking you will make the most money by investing in low market cap stocks. It's the absolute worst thing you can do. 99 out of 100 times you will lose a ton of money.

It's good to be an early adopter but you can buy the highest marketcap Bitcoin and still be an early adopter. Go out on the streets and ask everyone you see how many own Bitcoin.

Quite harsh words there, mate. Was that necessary? Market cap is not my cup of tea as well when it comes to investment basis. I look directly at the project and whether it has a future as to my own way of gauging it. But some out there are also looking at the market cap. Perhaps it has some help to them.