Is hodling alts dangerous?

[sedou]

If you believe that you found really good alt that should stand out when there is blood in the streets go for it. If you don't trust said altcoin then don't simple as that.

[crypto1010]

dangerous sounds....too risky but alts just like bitcoin have their bad and good days and altcoins like ethereum are less dangerous as you have put it, if i must be truthful i think their alts that are better rewarding than btc itself

[buje micin]

it depends on what you hold and think about it before doing something, set it up correctly that you will be holding on
see who the team is and the road map or participate in a discussion like telegram then you'll be fine

[DigitalLemming]

Holding alts that you pick simply out of gambling is dangerous but holding quality projects will not be anymore dangerous then holding bitcoin alone. This is all highrisk is a speculative market, just don't make things more high risk by not choosing quality projects and buying into hype like bitconnect

[Pesona1]

it will not be dangerous even if you hold altcoin in any amount. altcoin that is currently low value is not set for success by dev and his team they let when their successful ico achievement did not continue to develop the ico because it already gains. so do not be surprised if many altcoins are of low value.

[bandar]

Of course it is dangerous.  What do you expect?  that every alt keeps on rising?  Now that would be too easy, wouldn't it?  If these things can go +200% in a week, do you really expect them not to come down?  BTC is dangerous and alts are even more dangerous.  But that's the fun part actually.  If BTC goes down, alts go even more down.  If btc recovers, they tend to recover even more.  It's a pity you can hardly trade usd to alts (I own).  Now that would be fun trading!

[Minnie1928]

Last year alts rise a lot. I dont know the average percentage. But when I check coins in the market at year 2013 lots of them dead now (too low ranks). probably new tech coins won them (like peercoin, namecoin, ixcoin etc)

Also we are following new ICO s and most of us expecting too much gain from new coins which are not at the market. If our ICO expectations will happen, when they added to market, current market coins will go down. kind of paradox  

Everything is risky. Trading is like the gambling! You must enter the market with the money you are willing to lose. We all have certain doubts and we are all afraid for the future of the specific coin that we are holding. The truth is that most of the coins will vanish and only the strongest will prevail. It isn't everything in technologies that are getting improvements. Investors are the ones which are pumping the coins with the high demands.

If the certain goals and plans are achievable for the specific coin that certain coin has the bright future. There are too many ICOs nowadays but without proper analyzation don't hope for the success and big profit. Currently, most percents of the traders are dumping the coin after the ICO had ended; even if the ICO was successful because there are too many scams around and with that beliefs, even the good projects fail.

Lack of faith is the main problem today; Bitcoin is relatively safe but for how long; maybe some other altcoin will come which will push him aside. Ethereum is on the right track to do this. Trust in yourself and you can gain the nice amount of the profit if your analyzation was thorough.

Don't listen to other people advice because there are many of the traders that are led by the false guidings that maybe some other investor has recommended to them. Recommendations in the trading groups are one big closed circle that can lead all the traders in a group to demise.

Be yourself and trust to yourself and with a proper investment you never know, maybe you will get rich one day!

[krisnajsadrak]

not, but you need to do a research about what coin you are holding mate
so, you didn't holding a shitcoins,,
read the whitepapaer carefully to know more
and yes its danger, if you holding a shitcoins

[go4crypto]

So long as you're hodling top altcoins with good teams and project roadmaps, it should be just fine.
It helps to pay attention to their ANN threads on here or social media chatter as well.

[makuny]

Crypto self is dangerous  
So many fake and scam ICO's now.

But with the comming regulars i hope it will be better.

[Mhz_evadah]

Holding Alts is not dangerous, as long as their roadmap is not crippled. In fact, altcoins in some cases are more profitable in the short term than BTC as they show relative 2x, 3x, ... 10x within short periods of time. Bitcoin can only jump that high once in a while and then come down again. But this alts have a remarkable way of surpassing one's expectation, catching you off guard.

[fourpiece]

Yeah holding alts is dangerous and super risky, you dont know what will happen one day if your still holding them.
But if those alts has potential they are worth holding for.

[OuterTech]

Holding altcoin is not as dangerous as you think. Altcoin rates mostly influenced by Bitcoin rates as well as Ethereum. However, investment in ICO and hold the risky price is very high because if the token index, there will be two cases that the rate of rapid increase or decrease very quickly, will cause enormous losses for investors if ICOs is not potential.

[vfrias]

It depends of the alt.

IMO even in top10 there is really stupid projects very dangerous to hodl. Just check out the fundamentals and see if the price makes a minimal sense in the overal crypto world. If not, it might keep going up but it's dangerous as hell.

[Crypdon]

If you pick the right one then you can make big gains holding altcoins. Some will rise much faster and higher than bitcoin so sticking with just one coin will give you slow progress. It is better to diversify and then trade your altcoins for other altcoins. Right now, do some research on LISK and see why now is a good time to invest

[dunfida]

Not sure what you exactly mean.

Invest in projects with a solid roadmap, excellent team and a community and you will be fine.

If you throw money are pump and dump copycat shit coins you will loose in the long term

Then this thing should really be avoided on all cost but the main question here is that on how you would spot those kind of projects? Back in the past you can able to identify a shit project compared to potential ones but now on recent days even shit coins do already have a good whitepaper and any graphics that would really be attractive as an investor which would turn out to be shit later on.This is why its not really guaranteed to talk about evading possible scam projects completely.

[jashley]

As long as you do your own search very well before Hodling a coin there is nothing dangerous on that because if you really believe on their project and team you will not doubt whatever coin it is. Always remember those Hodlers always the winner especially on the bull market and it's coming soon.

[entrepmind23]

Last year alts rise a lot. I dont know the average percentage. But when I check coins in the market at year 2013 lots of them dead now (too low ranks). probably new tech coins won them (like peercoin, namecoin, ixcoin etc)

Also we are following new ICO s and most of us expecting too much gain from new coins which are not at the market. If our ICO expectations will happen, when they added to market, current market coins will go down. kind of paradox 

If you are too afraid in investing in altcoins then just always monitor your investment and if you already double your investment and maybe some profit then pull out your original investment and invest it in another altcoins. In this way, you are in a win-win situation because what is left is just your profit so whatever happens, whether the price goes up or down you did not lose anything. You should also invest in altcoins that has an active team and are always up to date with their projects because investors like those coins that are updated and follow their roadmap. Diversify your investments so that if other coins goes down, maybe others are doing well so you are safe.

[btcblockchain]

When compared to Bitcoin, altcoin will take time to increase their price but it completely depend upon bitcoin. Now a days crypto are attracting many people around the world. So we have to hold as long possible until we make some decent money.

[SamboNZ]

In my opinion, holding alts is not dangerous at all but holding alts is risky if you don't have good ones because it's like a gamble if you hold alts that doesn't have potential. I suggest that you should study alts that has a good project and investors.