Is it better to buy during ICO or Market?

[CuriousGeorge]

Buying at ICO or the market has their pros and cons. In case of investing in the ICO, the project should carefully studied, especially its business plan and
the team, in order to be confident of success. In this case, you can be sure that after listing on exchanges, the tokens will not cost less than their minimum price.
For example, the price of  ABT and CMT tokens didn't fall below the minimum of ICO. But many ICO projects lose a lot in price after listing, as a result investors need from 9 months or more to return the invested funds.

Sometimes good project need time to grow the token price, and indeed it is taking so long time but rest assured that if you are really investing into a good project, you will get a good result aswell.
Buying token at the market is also not a wrong thing since it's usually takes rather shorter time to grow, especially those with high volume.

[RoftheN]

If you buy during ICO stage than you are putting your money at high risk as investing in a project at such an early stage with no working product is a risky bet. While most of the ICOs get dumped to half of their initial prices after getting launched in the market. So I think the choice is pretty clear here.

[cabin]

I think it is better to buy during ICO because ICOs with good ideas or fundamentals has better chances to be successful if properly managed. Many coins can be brought for a cheaper price after the ICO but it is advisable to buy before it hits the market.

[dpui98]

Investing in good ICO will yield more however due to high demand you cant invest much some times... so buying at exchange is still the key if you truly believe the projects

Do you won research and only invest in good ICO, there are plenty bad ICO out there, avoid lending, x% return ICO, just my humble 2 cents

[nadbucs]

The aim of ICO is to help build the project financially and not just for quick money in returns after it was listed in exchanges and introduced to market. It is better to buy on the market after ICO   if you want to make sure that the project is not scam. But if you really believed on the potential of specific project either from ICO or market does not matter so much if your target is for long term.

[lifetimebitcoins]

I would suggest to buy coin at the time of Presale rather than Ico pre-sale we get cheapest price whereas Live market the coins get dumped hard we need to wait for some of time

[bundjoie02]

In my opinion, it is better if you will buy in the market because investing in ICO is very risky but profitable. Some of the ICOs are scam , so, be wise in choosing a project to invest with.

for me it depends on the ICO option. Sometimes it has big bonus during pre ICO and the ICO stage. So it is better to buy coins with this bonus.

[CLywaTeLb]

In order to understand when it is more profitable to buy coins, it is enough to look at the coins that recently entered the stock exchange.  The course altcoins almost immediately fall below the cost of the ICO.  Before they start growing again, you can easily make a profitable purchase, without the risk of a  scam.

I agree with you. This is the most reliable way to invest in crypto. There are only few tokens that do not fall after listing on the exchange. But then who will support the developers in the ICO?

[loansdd876]

You can buy a coin on the pre-sale with a good discount and then immediately sell it on exchange and put this discount in your pocket. If you believe in this coin, you can buy it again if the price has fallen below ICO.

[Cryptober13]

"These days, hardly any ICOs have what it takes to give 100% confidence to investors like me.
They come up with the most random ideas and spend a few 100k dollars on marketing and building hype. Then they have token sales where pre-sale investors are given discounted rates. They end up dumping the coin as soon as there is an exchange listing.

In fact, I know of only one ICO in recent times that has not done this. Blockgrain.io team had the foresight and fairness to keep presale price equal to main sale price. This shows what intentions a team has. Less focussed on greed and more on onboarding the right people."


So this seems one of such projects to hold for long term gains

[ansod12888]

I think its better to buy during ICO than the market because sometimes the Ico has a bonus that you can get an extra token or coin in different price rate.

[narukami]

This may depend on the potential of the project itself if has it or not but this also depend on how high the potential if it low yet successfull why not buy on marmet but if it truly high why not buy during ICO

[o12mxasd12]

Is it better to buy during ICO or Market?  Buying at ICO is relatively cheap price than in Market, but the price can be uncertain at any time can change and to buy in the market its price is certain if my knowledge so far.

[xyj790204]

In my opinion, the cheapest way for ICO is to buy tokens during the pre-sale period, because they offer discounts during this period.

[HatakeKakashi]

Investing in ICO woeth it but it depends to the ICO but they have ICO who are worthless after listing the price of the coin or token to the market the price is lower than ICO so that's why they have advatange of investing to ICO and waiting the token or coin listing to the market instead of investing to ICO. But better to invest to both to make more profit.

[vistamara]

It depends on the ICO, the really good ones have good valuation and sell all tokens to hardcap, those are the ones that you would like to buy on ICO, but it takes resarch to see which ones will reach hardcap.

[stan_]

It depends on the ICO, the really good ones have good valuation and sell all tokens to hardcap, those are the ones that you would like to buy on ICO, but it takes resarch to see which ones will reach hardcap.

Yes you always need to make good research before invest in any ICO. Also ICOs that reach hard cap very fast , can be lower at the market. Because there are a lot of bonuses on private and pre-sale. You never will know what will be on top.

[Deborah]

If ICO has great potential, I will buy it during ICO, because I will get more benefits from ICO's bonus. But if there is doubt, I will wait for the market, at least before ICO is listed in the main market.

[FOUAD1994]

For i preffer to Buy durring ICO

[Yalovtsev]

Now went that after ISO price drop,same Bautista merge,and so on,and the price flies to the bottom,past a lot of cases,that the people on ISO bought at for example $ 1 per token,after ISO,the price is 0.3-0.4 USD per token,but before that Yes it was very profitable to buy during ISO