What's your recommended crypto allocation?

Hi all,
the recent bloodbath pushed me to start investing in the crypto market. My current position is approx. 33% BTC/ETH/EOS. What would be your recommendation for a balanced crypto portfolio for the next 6-12 months?
Thanks!

Quote from: NerdyNewt on June 15, 2018, 11:21:31 AM

These three coins will be the best potential coins in mid term investment so you should spiltting your investment in these coin you will make profit in future. But if you looking to some other coins you should pick top 10 cryptocurrencies because peoples are always investing in top trending coins and demand also high in the market so better top cryptocurrency will make profit.

BTC ETH and EOS are all solid investments but it depends on your goals. If you're looking for lower risk and more modest returns then stick to what you have. If you wanted more risk but potentially higher returns then try invest in some less well known alt coins. There are many with great ideas and low market caps. There are at least 5 infrastructure coins looking to compete with EOS that have a mere fragment of the market cap.

Without even attempting to give you an advice, I would severely push the ratio in favor of BTC. I personally hold little respect for both ETH and EOS, although they may hold their position or even rise in the time period you indicated. Ultimately, I don't think they will be able to hold in the long run.

Quote from: NerdyNewt on June 15, 2018, 11:21:31 AM

That is really good move with the three coins as they are the perfect investment this year. I think you dont need to change anything in that and still you can earn lot of money out of them.

If you have enough dollars pouring into them then you can try to share some % of ETH and EOS into the coins like ADA, XMR, NEO and my favourite SCL. These coins should be next in the list if you ever want to allocate any % to next portfolio.

Quote from: NerdyNewt on June 15, 2018, 11:21:31 AM

My current position is approx. 33% BTC/ETH/EOS. What would be your recommendation for a balanced crypto portfolio for the next 6-12 months?

Bitcoin's ratio for overall stability of the portfolio will likely be somewhere around 50%. That being said, I wouldn't really go for both ETH and EOS with how things can turn pretty nasty for one of the two in the coming months. It's important for people to understand that in most similar cases, capital shifts occur rather than actual fresh capital flowing into coins.

If EOS ends up gaining momentum, and the majority of the upcoming ICO's will run on top of that platform instead of Ethereum, which is possible, then Ethereum will bleed for sure. What happens with your portfolio in this situation is that your EOS gains will be nullified by Ethereum's decline. Also don't forget that EOS holds +$4 billion (with the lower price probably closer to $3.5 billion) worth of Ether, which is pretty insane.

It's all up to people to decide what they will buy into and hold, but it's at least something to take into consideration.

Good point. Thank you!

I heard we are not yet in the dip. It is not advisable to assume that we are on it. Or else you will found your self trapped in a bear trap. Whales are having a hard time to crash BTC everytime it battle against resistance levels. Soon we might see BTC at $4k, then $3k.

Quote from: NerdyNewt on June 15, 2018, 11:21:31 AM

funny you should ask. since i just broke it down for another user here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4474779.msg40179593#msg40179593 who claims he has made 80% profit but i showed him how he lost 354% profit.

basically it is like i always tell people: bitcoin for long term without thinking twice about it. then altcoins only for short term and for trading. you constantly trade altcoins while they get pumped and dumped and add the profit either to your bitcoin or fiat or both.

Keeping these coins for 6 months to 1year is a best portfolio allocation. To me I keep 50% of funds in Bitcoins and the rest is shared among top 3 coins that recently entered an exchange.

Just a tip: sell that shitcoin that is EOS as soon as possible. Read the reddit discussions below, then rethink if you actually want to invest in EOS or not.

EOS Centralization: Top 1.6% of Holders Own 90% of Supply
EOS block producer chat logs
Everything they don't want you to know about EOS

You're very welcome.

Quote from: mjglqw on June 15, 2018, 04:52:21 PM

Really it is just annoying that some altcoin are just worthless. They just occupy good position in cmc ranking but they are just shit as they can be and never turns into profit despite how long they have existed.

Quote from: NerdyNewt on June 15, 2018, 11:21:31 AM

I think majority of your portfolio should be in Bitcoin. This is how most investors build their wealth and there's no secret that bitcoin is the best investment eventhough we are in a bear market. I'm still not totally sold on EOS though, I'm still not buying the hype around it, so you might want to look at how much you money you gonna put on it. There's a lot of question whether it can overtake Ethereum, well in the short run, perhaps, but I think that Ethereum will still be the main currency for ICO projects, so yes, I will also put Ethereum in my portfolio and just play around when EOS make a sudden price move.

Quote from: NerdyNewt on June 15, 2018, 11:21:31 AM

I’d go up to 40%.

I’m not enthusiastic about EOS; It looks like Ripple, only suitable for high-risk investment in the short term. Replace it with Monero.
It does not matter how much you keep but how you control, deal with changes, and buy/sell at the right time.
The general division shall be 50% bitcoin, 30% eth, and 20% Monero. "This percentage changes based on the news."

Nothing, all meaningless during this bear trends. Wait for a reversal signal and see who is the strongest, for example last time, ethereum was demolishing bitcoin, probably the same will happen this time so I would go with ethereum but time will tell.

Quote from: NerdyNewt on June 15, 2018, 11:21:31 AM

Aside from the obvious reason why we should have BTC and ETH on our portfolio, I will not recommend any altcoins or sort of how much is the distribution per coins since it's up on your own preference how will you choose. Just following others might wreck you on the way since we have different way on handling our own set of coins in our respective portfolios.

You now have your own and surely you just didn't created it without thinking and considering some factors.

Now, just trust your own analyzation and managed it properly on the way. We don't know what will happened in the future so it's really a must to check it out to ourselves if our plan will succeed.

Your spread is quite good, of course EOS and ETH are strong recommendations as they've shown significant strength even despite the collapsing market. I would recommend you slip a few newer, but still high potential coins into the mix, including some privacy coins (DeepOnion and Monero), some scaling coins such as Zilliqa and Quarkchain, and a couple more platform coins like NEO. Spreading your trades over only 3 coins doesn't give you the most opportunity, but it's always good to keep a significant fraction on Bitcoin, simply because it usually takes the least damage during the red times.

Quote from: NerdyNewt on June 15, 2018, 11:21:31 AM

i have a long term ETH position that i will continue holding for long term capital gains tax rates.

but in general, i stay 100% BTC (for my crypto allocation) during bear markets. i like to wait until i see a nice accumulation base (on the weekly+ charts) in both BTC and across some alts before i start piling into alts again.

with very few exceptions (like newly launched coin hype), alts will bleed harder than BTC in a bear market. not a good time to hold from an investment perspective. swing trading is a different thing, although i'm generally avoiding alts entirely right now.

Quote from: NerdyNewt on June 15, 2018, 11:21:31 AM

I understand the importance of not keeping all the eggs in one basket, but usually when bitcoin is falling, the altcoins fall even harder. So in the current market conditions, I think you should keep more in bitcoin, and less on the other alts. When you realize that the trend has changed, and money is flowing in again, then I would invest more on altcoins, because they usually increase more in % than BTC.

There is of course the opportunity for ICOs, that is a little riskier, but usually quite profitable even on a "bear market" like this one.