I'd recommend a hardware wallet (from the official sites like trezor.io - don't use amazon!)
I think the safest online wallet is electrum but I haven't looked at many others. You can use electrum with hardware if you wanted to also.
If you don't want to get hardware but have an old computer spare then I'd suggest looking into airgapping a version of electrum to be as safe as hardware (eg not connecting to the Internet while using it).
Thanks for the suggestions.
I was under the impression that electrum was all local, at least when i view the interface it seems to be, or maybe not since it can connect to services?
Ah i see on the electrum airgapp, would it be just as good to install on an isolated virtual machine perhaps? Though i guess not as secure as there is still a way to get at it from the main machine.
When i hear about these hardware devices it makes me nervous if it fails or a new one that i get doesnt restore things (i guess you just enter the passphrase on a new replacement and its there), suppose i could try it with some small amount of coins first.
That takes it to my question on all this, if you are playing the market, ie: selling/buying constantly vs holding, wouldnt using an offline/hardware wallet make it really hard to get those coins back online to exchange or sell (and which is better to do, im thinking exchange may make more sense when its time to actually "sell" unless you want the cash out and pay the cap gains taxes)? Doesnt that become a hunt for which exchange/location to sell/exchange quickly?