Is it normal for ICO prices to drop once they're listed on the exchange?

[btcdamnit]

Yes
this is really common, because

Bounty hunters sell their tokens for any rate


People start fearing if after being listed the price don't get a pump so they sell to buy at lower rate


Price at decentralized exchange with low volume can fluctuate heavily...so it can be once 50% below ICO and at the next moment 20% above ICO

[1kings]

it's very normal for prices to drop. you'll find that most bounty holders will drop which in turn drops the price but you tend to find people that have been following the projects then buy in at low prices and look at holding longer term until the prices stabilise.

Always after completion of ICO and the release of the tokens to the exchange, their price falls sharply due to the fact that many bounty hunters sell them for quick profits. Investors then need to wait a long time when the tokens will make a profit.   

These are EXACTLY the opportunities I am looking for.  There are a handful of VR/AR related coin ICO's happening right now and I will be waiting and ready to buy them all when they drop on the exchange and hold for long term.

Thanks for the clarification guys.

Also, I need to get in on this bounty program, sounds awesome lol.  Is there a lot of "work" behind getting these free tokens?  Every ICO will have free bounty tokens?  What is usually required to acquire these freebies?

Some bounty campaigns are a piece of cake. Some just require you to follow them on their social media pages and help boost their following.
Some would require posts on blogs, referrals or translation for targeted languages.
I've seen bounties for meme designs, logo creation, bug identification, etc.

The rewards vary too.

[lionheart89]

i think the impact of ICO price decline is due to the recipient of a gift from bounties selling it immediately does not hold for a long time.

[sazon84]

At the beginning of 2017 and earlier coins after the exchange gave rise. Now the trend has changed. But if Altcoin promising in the long term, it will still grow and give their profits to investors

[Maren]

Bounty percentage is low even with the best paid projects. 2% of total supply dumped would not make a significant price dip. The reason why some ICO prices tank after getting listed on exchanges are insitutional early investors and founders. Early whales with big bonus percentage also contribute to the fall, like people who only bought to flip.

Another reason for dips is marketing vacuum. People get whipped up by the marketing campaign during the ICO, which stops after the money is in the coffers, new supply of people that want the token dwindles and prices tank, then one big announcement and they fly. No announcements and they die.

[max6575]

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[terbetet]

So it seems a lot of ICO's are running with $1 per coin during the ICO - but then dropping well below that price once they're listed on an exchange.

Is this a normal thing for an ICO at least initially while they're working on getting their project fully operational?

Are they setting the $1-$2 a coin so they can make sure they're fully funded to get the project started and on it's way vs trying to sell shares for pennies or dimes?

But why wouldn't the price of an ICO hold at what that price was?  Just because initial founders are dumping their coins to get some cash out and forcing the hand/price to go down based on supply & demand?

Based on my experienced, ICO prices really get into dump when listed. According to my friends who are already into cryptocurrencies since then, ICO prices are normally dump into price for many reason and those are we don't really know. That was just based on our observation whenever the cryptocurrencies we are into are already listed and compared to the original price seems to be low.

[cryptoatomic]

Because the bounty hunters and investors are dumping the coin as soon as they are listed in the exchange so the price drops.

[SyrioForElle]

Standard economic theory predicts that when a monopoly ends, prices fall.

During an ICO there is a monopoly on the coin. Only the team that is running the ICO has the supply of the coin - and they can sell it at any price that they desire. They have a monopoly. And monopolists typically charge an elevated price.

As soon as it is listed on an exchange the creator of the coin no  longer has a monopoly. It is now a free market. Anyone can buy and sell. And when monopolies end prices fall. So yes this is exactly what economic theory would predict as "normal".

[niteroy]

So it seems a lot of ICO's are running with $1 per coin during the ICO - but then dropping well below that price once they're listed on an exchange.

Is this a normal thing for an ICO at least initially while they're working on getting their project fully operational?

Are they setting the $1-$2 a coin so they can make sure they're fully funded to get the project started and on it's way vs trying to sell shares for pennies or dimes?

But why wouldn't the price of an ICO hold at what that price was?  Just because initial founders are dumping their coins to get some cash out and forcing the hand/price to go down based on supply & demand?

In most cases, the price of the token, after the ICO on cryptoexchanges falls, and this depends on many factors. For example, one of the factors of the token price fall is the sale of it by those who did not buy, but earned it as a result of the promotion of the ICO project: managers, advisors and others. If you bought a token on the ICO and saw that the price of the token falls after you go to cryptoexchange, do not panic, you'll have to wait until the project team, in which you invested your funds, begins to implement its plans according to the ICO roadmap. By keeping tokens in your hands without selling them, you keep the price of the token. This may take some time, but when the project starts to become more popular, its tokens will also go up, and the appearance of new cryptoexchanges will raise the price of the token! If you want to learn how to invest correctly in ICO, read one of my posts:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2895054.msg31031323#msg31031323

[kevpantof]

So it seems a lot of ICO's are running with $1 per coin during the ICO - but then dropping well below that price once they're listed on an exchange.

Is this a normal thing for an ICO at least initially while they're working on getting their project fully operational?

Are they setting the $1-$2 a coin so they can make sure they're fully funded to get the project started and on it's way vs trying to sell shares for pennies or dimes?

But why wouldn't the price of an ICO hold at what that price was?  Just because initial founders are dumping their coins to get some cash out and forcing the hand/price to go down based on supply & demand?

In most cases, the price of the token, after the ICO on cryptoexchanges falls, and this depends on many factors. For example, one of the factors of the token price fall is the sale of it by those who did not buy, but earned it as a result of the promotion of the ICO project: managers, advisors and others. If you bought a token on the ICO and saw that the price of the token falls after you go to cryptoexchange, do not panic, you'll have to wait until the project team, in which you invested your funds, begins to implement its plans according to the ICO roadmap. By keeping tokens in your hands without selling them, you keep the price of the token. This may take some time, but when the project starts to become more popular, its tokens will also go up, and the appearance of new cryptoexchanges will raise the price of the token! If you want to learn how to invest correctly in ICO, read one of my posts:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2895054.msg31031323#msg31031323

Agreed, this is actually a very common phenomenon which we keep on experiencing most of the time as the price of the ICOs drop down at time when they are listed on the exchange and it is not an astonishing thing too. It happens because of the reason that most of the people start selling them or stop buying them which actually results in the drop of the price of the ICOs. The price goes up as well at time when the demand increases.

[jennyluwariz]

The price may increase based on the Hype they create during the ICO, as per my knowledge the price raises based on the day to day trade volumes. if the token price is high in the ICO stage say suppose 1 $, the investors maynot be ready in investing at the time of ICO, rather they try to invest as soon as the token list into an exchange. Most of the investors, who want to buy more number tokens at a lower price thinks that the people who have Free earned tokens will sell at a lower price than ICO sale, If there are less price sell orders the price of the token will be fallen down as soon as they list .

[404edson]

Dropping the ICO prices once they're listed in any exchange are normally happened for some reasons. Most bounty hunters are selling their tokens once they received it. And the project are aware for the next step of their journey, so they were stabilizing and maintain the financial and supports of there products to develop or upgrade it, so many investors will appreciate it and try to invest for the next round.

[emmmmm]

I think this is normal, because when this token ilst  on exchange, there are a lot of people selling tokens in the short term, so the imbalance between supply and demand will lead to a decrease in the short-term price of this token.

[okissabam]

Yes it is normal because most of the time when some investors get their shares once ICO ends, they sell their coins right away and pulling the price down with it. But once it has been stable for like a month or so, it slowly rises up because of the demand on the market. And they say, the bounty hunters who also gets their shares sell most of their coin too so I could just imagine the drop of price if all of them sells their coin at almost the same time.

[favelle75]

When it firstly listed on exchange bounty hunters dump them all.
thats why the price drops. but sometimes it won't happen. They are now giving bounty tokens almost 60 days after ico. So after now we will not see the same scenario again.

[JohnMacZeppelin]

To my great regret, today such statistics, indeed a lot of projects that just lose in price after the ICO, for me it is also very strange, I think that it's a matter of bonuses that developers offer investors, because all this talk about bounty hunters is not true

[cryptotsunami]

So it seems a lot of ICO's are running with $1 per coin during the ICO - but then dropping well below that price once they're listed on an exchange.

Is this a normal thing for an ICO at least initially while they're working on getting their project fully operational?

Are they setting the $1-$2 a coin so they can make sure they're fully funded to get the project started and on it's way vs trying to sell shares for pennies or dimes?

But why wouldn't the price of an ICO hold at what that price was?  Just because initial founders are dumping their coins to get some cash out and forcing the hand/price to go down based on supply & demand?

It is a normal trend on ICO because other investors get it with 10%-40% on pre-sale. Whales took that opportunity and sell their coin to get immediate profit and they will buy back again once the token is on the bottom. So better buy an ICO token after the hype is gone.

[Vatimins]

     Well in my experience, I think that the reason as to why such things happens to ICOs after listing is because of the small investors in the pre-ICOs or the secret pre-ICOs on some coins which then sell their possessions when it gets to exchanges since they already see big profits and then just buy again when the prices dumps. Another reason can be the bounty hunters that sell their rewards after seeing the said tokens/coins getting listed. But that doesn't really happen to all ICOs when they get listed because some rises even more when they get to exchanges. the outcomes may really vary depending on the type of token or coin. Which is why you must learn to pick the right ones to invest in before you let go of your hard earned investing funds.

[vanstellar23]

Bounty percentage is low even with the best paid projects. 2% of total supply dumped would not make a significant price dip. The reason why some ICO prices tank after getting listed on exchanges are insitutional early investors and founders. Early whales with big bonus percentage also contribute to the fall, like people who only bought to flip.

Another reason for dips is marketing vacuum. People get whipped up by the marketing campaign during the ICO, which stops after the money is in the coffers, new supply of people that want the token dwindles and prices tank, then one big announcement and they fly. No announcements and they die.

👆The only comment that made sense.