Because the cryptocurrency situation is currently not the same as before. So I want to ask all of you in here, so that I don't lose money in investing. Which do you think is better, buy when ico / ieo / tokensale and get a bonus or buy when it is listed in the public exchange/market at a low price? I personally prefer to participate in the tokensale but see the current situation, when a token / coin list in the market is cheap, this makes me very confused to invest. How about you? Can you share your mind and help me out my confused

As many cases showed a big drop in price when a coin is listed on an exchange, I prefer to buy coins on an exchange. I am really sure to buy in an ICO sale phase for now. You are correct, there have been some changes in crypto space right now. It is better to choose a strategy that is suitable for the current situation than to stay in old ways.

Simple analyzing, if you participate in the token sale or before that as the private sale, you can actually get more profit. But that only applies if the site project is really legit and came from a reputed company. Since it's too hard to recognize a legit project and most of this are scams. So in my experience, I only buy tokens from the exchange or after they got listed on some exchange--reputed exchange for short, but of course it will take sometime them to get listed on such exhanges, not unless their offering IEO and not ICO or something similar.

if I prefer to buy when it's tokensale. like your step and that's good. indeed all crypto is down. This is because the traditional bank of the BTC is expected to parasitize it in the coming years, as a result, all crypto prices have dropped. but I'm sure that by the end of this year everything will be back to normal. everything is being discussed and discussed well, we wish you all success and crypto will improve.

buying during a private sale is clearly more profitable because generally there will be some attractive promos, because the price offered is far below the market price plus tokens or coins bonuses. however, before buying during a private sale, make sure you choose the right project, don't end up buying shitcoin or projects that don't have a good market price after the coin is released to the global market.
avoid private sales that provide attractive promos but do not have a potential product.

Did you think for new coin who has been listing on the exchange and meet a decreasing price even the price meet a decrease price comparing when ICO/IEO project is held is still good/ still have a potential? I guess not, the potential of new coin will depend on when the coin/token on the exchange.

If the coin has a good potential then price will not decrease exceed when the IEO or ICO price takes place IMO. I prefer to choose investing when IEO/ICO take places and I will sell it when the coin has been listing on the exchange and the profit I got I'll invest on bitcoin or some altcoins in the top market.

It depends,if the project have a bounty program then it will be wise to buy on exchange because dumpers will dump and you will buy at cheaper rate,if the project doesnt have bounty program then go for the presale

It is better to buy during the token sale period, because the opportunity to get profit is when the token is posted on the exchange. The first advantage is low prices and increased prices when the tokens are listed.

well, it's depend on what project you want to invest, but my opinion if some project has bounty program, most of them (but not all) will have cheap price when listed on exchange. I do not blame bounty hunters who's sell at lower price than ICO price. but seems so many project that said "will protect investor" only in mouth not really make it happen

My experience is not so well in ICO tokensale or crowdsale. I do prefer to buy token from exchange. Because when we buy it through token sale then it will add exchange later and there has a huge chance of dumping the tokens price. That's why I prefer to buy listed token through exchange that called IEO henceforth