How to determine if projects/coins will survive the bear market?

[ityandsyn]

Is there really a way to determine what all projects/coins will survive? I wish to invest now but I am really skeptical. Does the 'top 5-10' rule always work?Is it advisable to follow this rule blindly?

       We only depending on the white paper as the basis for determining factor whether the project is good and promising then we must follow this as ICO goes on either the coin is sellable and as reference if it is valuable or not

[Gavyn Pace]

The main fundamentals that play a role in the survivability of a coin or project is the idea behind it, the team and how strong they are, community support. If all of those points have a good sturdy foundtation even in a bare market situation they'd be able to maintain themselves and wait for a change in the market to make the most out of their project and coin in terms of profit.

[veter2601]

To select the most reliable coins should go to the top coinmarketcap . They have the greatest chance to survive in a bear market , natoria of them is btc and eth . When choosing ico project for investment, you should carefully examine his white paper , how good his team is and whether it has a real product. But keep in mind that bear market is not the best time to invest in ico .

[EmmanCryp]

Is there really a way to determine what all projects/coins will survive? I wish to invest now but I am really skeptical. Does the 'top 5-10' rule always work?Is it advisable to follow this rule blindly?

Even the top five to ten altcoins are not resistant to any present or future bear market. The advantage they may have is that they have higher chance of growing back to their previous highs than other altcoins.

[pinovero]

There are no easy way for that but you need to look projects community hype and their roadmap.
I think that two thing is the most important thing about icos. If a project is not good surely community will not support that coin.
With good roadmap that coin will have some hype's in the future. So you can not fully predict about coins future but at least you can try to understand these important things.

[beerlover]

No one survives the bear market. Bitcoin was $20k and now it is 6.5k (which is still great compared to others. Nano was 37 dollars now it is 2 dollars, ethereum was $1.5k and more now its 200 dollars, dash was $1.5k dollars now it is 156 dollars, spectre was 6 dollars now its 20 cents. Honestly there is absolutely no a single coin that didn't lose value in the past year, if you are looking for something that didn't changed in price to low than you should put your money into tether (which is a scam token and that even dropped in price recently).

If you want to have to freedom and profits of a cryptocurrency you need to take the risks and stress of cryptocurrency as well, there is no free money and noone gives you freedom, you have to work for your money and take your freedom.

[Cedrikon3]

There's just no way in telling whether it will survive. Some fundamental charactersicts are found in a good project that keeps moving but sometimes even after doing all the right things, projects die. Initially, we can look for proper business model, good innovations, strong community and development support in that particualr project. Then, it has to be popular among crowd when it's up and running. And it always has to be legit.

[Dohabaen01]

It's tough actually to predict these kind of things. It depends on many factors. A good project, great developers, a smart plan can make a huge difference.

[Dwaesien55]

There are no exact measurments to dictate success in a bear market. A simple market research would point toward the profitablity of a coin even in a bear market.

[Mireajan42]

There are no proper patterns to follow to see if a project or coin will survive the bear market or not. Usually the projects/coins which have good developers who are consistently pushing good upgrades, a strong community, a good business model survives.

[Kekkins87]

No one survives the bear market. Bitcoin was $20k and now it is 6.5k (which is still great compared to others. Nano was 37 dollars now it is 2 dollars, ethereum was $1.5k and more now its 200 dollars, dash was $1.5k dollars now it is 156 dollars, spectre was 6 dollars now its 20 cents. Honestly there is absolutely no a single coin that didn't lose value in the past year, if you are looking for something that didn't changed in price to low than you should put your money into tether (which is a scam token and that even dropped in price recently).

If you want to have to freedom and profits of a cryptocurrency you need to take the risks and stress of cryptocurrency as well, there is no free money and noone gives you freedom, you have to work for your money and take your freedom.

I agree...the problem is to find the new coin that can do a big % of price grow...we must look for coins that are not ico or bounty but people are too stupid for this....I regret I did not get bought coins like litecoin,vertcoin or viacoin when they were very very low in 2015...there is a good dose of luck of course, but you must always do your own researches...for example watch Elicoin in livecoinwatch , is not an ICO or bounty... it's a coin with low mc, low supply, PoW whit cpu, no premine, active dev...only trading it on CREX24 for now...do you own researches in the thread in bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3028302.0... people are too stupid for DYOR and got scammed by ICO or bounty...just my 2 cents...hope it helps...cheers

[supermine]

Is there really a way to determine what all projects/coins will survive? I wish to invest now but I am really skeptical. Does the 'top 5-10' rule always work?Is it advisable to follow this rule blindly?

It is not a question that we can answer directly because the legitimacy and the potential of the project determines how it can survive the hard days of crypto currency.If you are going to be a long term investor I want you to learn the first rule that never expect any return from your investment or just go for the already available coins because 9 out of 10 ICOs in the year of 2018 got failed and the other thing is that remember how to check the reputation of the project team,which may give idea about their project as well.

[BagzMM]

It's a unpredictable market and the project will depends on the development of the team. Although if you want to invest you should choose those coins at the top 10 rank as those has proven that can bounce back after the fall. Every investment has a risk and you need to take it if you want to gain something.

[l10no]

if you are only limited to speculation, you better not invest now, look at the very bad market conditions at the moment. everyone is unable to give a specific picture that the market will stabilize after the new year

[Louis21]

There is no one plus one formula for it. Just always get tangible information about most projects you are following here and outside here. No one can really say what we happen but daily events can surely help us in making good decisions.

[Sarisang]

find out which ones will survive or even thrive is a hard thing to do. see what lies behind the coin or the project may be a good thing to do but even this is not necessarily the guarantee could be especially in conditions like this time crypto. look to the top 5-10 could be a safe thing that might at least have to try while selecting and identifying others.

[Jating]

It looks like a lot of altcoins in the top 5-10 are being exposed as over bought. Just look at how Ethereum suffered, or XRP, beginning of the year they have enjoyed all-time-high but after that dumps after dumps of those coins causing the price to really plummet.

How to determine is not the question, but how those coins are going to stand out in the bear market. This is a difficult time, actually its a struggle and no matter how many good news comes in, investors are not buying because they know that its very volatile plus they are really getting smarter. No more bagholders, its sort of hit-and-run attitude. If they see a good profit then they will immediately sold-off. The only coins worth noting though is Bitcoin or even Monero which has been steadily doing good at this bear market.

[BitcoinHodler]

the only way a project can actually survive in the long run is if it has real intrinsic value. otherwise when the project is purely based on speculation and pump and dump that means it has no intrinsic value and it will never survive the long run.
these cons may get pumped after the long dump but that is a diminishing trend like a downward spiral which will eventually lead to the death of the project.

[cola-jere]

Is there really a way to determine what all projects/coins will survive? I wish to invest now but I am really skeptical. Does the 'top 5-10' rule always work?Is it advisable to follow this rule blindly?

Top 5 to 10 means that the crypto projects have a strong community and project team behind them and are "generally accepted" by the entire crypto community.
If you are in it for a long haul, DYOR is always a rule to follow and invest/contribute only what you can afford to lose as crypto is a very high risk investment.

[o_e_l_e_o]

Top 5 to 10 means that the crypto projects have a strong community and project team behind them and are "generally accepted" by the entire crypto community.

No it doesn't. The top 10 includes BCH, EOS and USDT. All three of these coins are complete trash and largely shunned by everyone other than shills and newbies.

BCH only had value as a fork of BTC. It's supposed "0.1" ratio to bitcoin is in free fall, and is currently sitting at 0.066. The only people still talking about this coin are bagholders. EOS is a centralized scam. It's "project team", as you put it, all took their profits from the ICO and then abandoned ship. USDT is in the process of imploding, with a loss of over $1 billion in marketcap over the last few weeks. It's a stablecoin that isn't stable.

Top 10 might mean that your project is strong, or it might just mean that it was successfully shilled to many naive newbies.