Diversification
Sure diversification is a good thing, but everything in moderation right? The cryptocurrency market is pretty volatile, so be careful spreading yourself too thin over altcoins with small market caps, instead of focusing on a few larger coins. Always do extensive research before trading in any altcoins (if you’re really not sure, top traders recommend sticking to small amounts of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and/or Litecoin to start).
diversification means that your portfolio should contain the following:
- stocks
- bonds
- precious metal
- real estate
- bitcoin
if your so called portfolio contains bitcoin, ether ripple,.... then you are NOT diversifying. what you are doing is increasing your investment risk while reducing your profitability dramatically.
and every "top trader" already knows this. only the beginners who fall for the pump and dumps think otherwise.
more here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5199926.0;allAnd this is my problem with the diversification that most people in the forum talk about, when they talk about diversifying your investments they are not really talking about investing in different assets that are completely unrelated to bitcoin, they are always talking about investing in altcoins which as we know have a very high correlation to the way bitcoin moves and when you add that most of those coins are not really good then you're not really protecting your capital but instead you are risking even more of it.
Without a doubt diversification is a great way to protect your portfolio but only if you do it right, otherwise it is better to not even bother and just keep all your money in bitcoin.