Advice on what to consider when making an investment ?

[kryptqnick]

What's up guys, I am relatively new to the crypto world and although I've read a lot and watched countless videos on crypto and how to do your own research, I was wondering what are the most important aspects of a project, and what are the most important factors and things to look for. If you could give me some advice on the resources you guys use that would be really great. I was also wondering if someone could explain to me what is a vesting schedule and what a good token distribution looks like vs a bad one.

When looking for an investment opportunity, I would focus on the following things: media coverage, community, finances, famous people or companies behind the project. 5 years ago I would've said that you should look at their whitepaper, but now I think it's a waste of time. It might be an unpopular opinion, but I believe that the concepts don't matter if there's no way the team will actually succeed in implementing them, and projects that are very similar but have lots of funding can become successful even if they're not original.
So skip the whitepaper, and start with their social media. How many followers do they have, compared to numbers of followers of some projects that became very successful? How many likes and other engagements are available? This stuff can be bought, but if they have the money and willingness to invest in marketing, it's a good sign.
Then look at the media coverage. Have any famous news outlets written about them? Again, you can choose a successful project and compare with its coverage at the time when it was a new one.
Another very important thing is the team. Is there anyone famous there, and what are they famous for? Keep in mind that ICOs might lie about their team members, so make sure to fact-check if a certain person indeed has anything to do with some project.
As for the financial part, I wouldn't trust the mere numbers on their official website or media profiles, as those can be fake. What counts, instead, is any big companies or famous investors giving money to this project.

[sumant]

Very good question for anyone who looking for investment in a project. If you look at cryptocurrency history first thing you have to be patient without this you can't get big profits. Other thing project should be legit project or have large usecase project, if project became a scam then you will not get a penny. Community should be good because in today's world everything goes on hype if community is big then your investment can go big. Legit project with big community and holding power will make you a big investor.

[Cling18]

Having enough knowledge about crypto investment including its risks, the coin that you're investing with, and the team behind it as well as your target goal are some of the things that you have to consider before investing. It could be a long process of learning but being knowledgeable about what you're doing is always an advantage. You must be emotionally prepared to face the risks of investing because the market flow is like a roller coaster ride.

[Sled]

I hope that OP is still following this thread and have some glimpse.

I am afraid that he made a step without learning about crypto and much more without listening to the people around him. As to learn investment is not all about money and how much we are able to get but it was more important to know or have the knowledge of what we are doing. Or else, we expect losses as the opposite results from what we aim for.

I suggest to OP to have more time in the forum for the sake of gaining some ideas and lastly, to be aware of the situation. As nothing will happen to us if we just neglect all of these things.

[RealMalatesta]

although I've read a lot and watched countless videos on crypto and how to do your own research, I was wondering what are the most important aspects of a project, and what are the most important factors and things to look for. If you could give me some advice on the resources you guys use that would be really great.

The important factors that you need to consider before investing is really few but unfortunately these days devs are too smart hence they will easily convince you to go investing with them. So, the better option for you must be, avoiding new projects but investing into bitcoin and major coins like BNB and ETH. This way, you may save your time and more importantly you will easily get good profits. Now decide, how many more videos that you need to watch.

I was also wondering if someone could explain to me what is a vesting schedule and what a good token distribution looks like vs a bad one.

There cannot be any definite answer for this because coins with different approaches have succeeded hence these cannot help you to filter out.

[hyudien]

The most important thing when investing is that there is always an opportunity to lose, most people always think profit so if he gets different facts then he panics and sells all assets at a loss.

Therefore, before going further to invest having basic knowledge is the main thing. In so many ways nowadays there is no need to worry anymore as long as the OP is a loyal reader and applies it to the project he wants. Selling in a panic, not only beginners but sometimes we are also often exposed to issues that always make us decide to sell. Plus investing in projects that initially went well but along the way their team encountered many problems which eventually hampered the project. So the best decision is not to hold their coins too long.

[Teknisi88]

Advice on what to consider when making an investment?
My advice, there are many things to consider when choosing a trading platform for crypto assets, including;
In choosing an exchange, the thing that must be considered is security. Check if the exchange offers two-factor authentication (2FA) security which is standard security.
Then choose an exchange with a payment method that suits your needs.
Furthermore, checking the details about fees is an important factor to look at if you want to choose a platform for buying and selling Bitcoin.
And also before you invest in a cryptocurrency, check the historical price of the coin and analyze whether it is in an up or down trend.
good luck

[Woodie]

Crypto investments are not an easy undertaking especially if you going for coins off the top 100 or generally those not listed on coin marketcap or coingecko... But the basics of giving it a litmus test still stands, you can check their socials and see if they are organically active and not just some bots interacting with people, secondly check if coin has been listed on a reputable exchange as others scam exit with phony exchanges which is a big red flag. And lastly check for authenticity of white paper and team and once or these are all good you can pick your project.

[sana54210]

When looking for an investment opportunity, I would focus on the following things: media coverage, community, finances, famous people or companies behind the project. 5 years ago I would've said that you should look at their whitepaper, but now I think it's a waste of time. It might be an unpopular opinion, but I believe that the concepts don't matter if there's no way the team will actually succeed in implementing them, and projects that are very similar but have lots of funding can become successful even if they're not original.

Out of those things, I would say famous people are the least important part. I get that because of Elon Musk many people think that viral marketing is possible via other famous people but we had so many celebs going out of their way to promote projects all the time and it ended up not being that great.

This is enough proof that celebs promoting a project is not enough at all, it is something that you should not rely on while you are investing. Aside from that, fundamentals, roadmap, code, media coverage, community, and so forth are all great parts of it and I definitely agree that you should check them out before you make an investment.

[isaac_clarke22]

hugeblack pretty much summed up all the things you need, OP.
To add up to the "Developer Team" part, check their Github repositories or at least activity in the past months. You don't need to know how to code to check that in Github as you can check the project being developed there. It is open for anybody. Check also their LinkedIn pages, which are commonly noted on their past employment history though don't rely in it too much as it can be faked out sometimes.

[zonefloor]

First you should analyze the project team and its features. Because this is a very important factor. New ones are added to the crypto money market every day. Most of these additions are in pursuit of defrauding people because they are after making short-term money. If you do not see any problems in the project team, then check their social media accounts. Because social media is the most important element for a project and team to do business. Because the more active social media is, the more people it can reach. The most important point is that you do not invest according to the opinions of others. Otherwise, you may lose your assets. Always do your own analysis.

[hello_good_sir]

What's up guys, I am relatively new to the crypto world and although I've read a lot and watched countless videos on crypto and how to do your own research, I was wondering what are the most important aspects of a project, and what are the most important factors and things to look for. If you could give me some advice on the resources you guys use that would be really great. I was also wondering if someone could explain to me what is a vesting schedule and what a good token distribution looks like vs a bad one.

Had a few pieces of advice that pretty much will apply to any investment in the crypto space:

1. Look at the initial distribution.

Was there a huge premine that goes to some sort of centralized foundation? That shouldn't be a dealbreaker, but if the foundation is not doing anything with the funds and just holding onto billions of dollars of tokens, then that becomes an issue.

2. Look at community engagement. Has there been active discussion on Reddit/Discord?

3. Look at the devs/team. Are they known previously? Are they anonymous? Not any one of these metrics should be used to be the deciding factor, but too many negatives would ring alarm bells for me.

[jossiel]

Usually check each of their social media platforms if they've got a lot of users, the real users with interaction. Like in their telegram channel or discord server.

Telegram interactions can be engineered these days, you must be cautious too. Dubious projects can recruit multiple users to push conversation on their channels, Interactions on telegram and discord channels are indications of good projects but not full assurance. If you feel that you may be biased in your research and decision, that is unsure of your judgement after researching, employ the help of a third party professional whose judgement is sound to help in your decision making process.

Yes, that's why I've said about real users.

I think we have an idea to figure out if those conversations are too obvious and they're fake conversations just to attract investors. It's common for those projects that are coming out in the market daily.

They're looking for their PR team to do the thing and hire people just to make their channels very active. But, it's better if you'll investigate first to see if those interactions are for real.

[Yamifoud]

For me, when choosing a project, it is very important that the team is not anonymous. If the project team is anonymous, it is better to stop researching this project already at this stage. Look at the investors of the project and if you see well-known funds among them, consider that their specialists have done the work of evaluating the project for you.

That unless if we are dealing with the stock market but as we are in crypto, anonymity seems to see. And this is sometimes a problem as scammers will easily trick us and use known names just to attract investors but in the end, it was an exit scam. That is why it is very important to spare time studying the market and so the panned project, otherwise, we fall into the wrong investment and lose our hard-earned money. We don't suppose to do that and so we need to be careful.

[Furious 7]

For me, when choosing a project, it is very important that the team is not anonymous. If the project team is anonymous, it is better to stop researching this project already at this stage. Look at the investors of the project and if you see well-known funds among them, consider that their specialists have done the work of evaluating the project for you.

That unless if we are dealing with the stock market but as we are in crypto, anonymity seems to see. And this is sometimes a problem as scammers will easily trick us and use known names just to attract investors but in the end, it was an exit scam. That is why it is very important to spare time studying the market and so the panned project, otherwise, we fall into the wrong investment and lose our hard-earned money. We don't suppose to do that and so we need to be careful.

Anonymity has become commonplace, even many projects hide the identity of their team because they don't know the reason for what is clear, there is a lot of anonymity in new projects that will come, we here of course have to choose and consider whether anonymity is good or not sometimes this too it is a trap because we don't know what they are doing while we only know coins, and this is what you need to know that a true investment must know all the basics so that it doesn't disappoint in the future.

[bittick]

You must study the project and don't follow the hype. Try to search a project based on its fundamental. There are some things that you must looked at
Project
product
team
ecosystem
Venture capital

These things will help you in making a choice to pick up a coin as your investment. The track record by the team is determining on how good the development in the project can be done and remember that when it was getting supported by so many popular venture capital and it can be a good point to invest in the project. Venture capital was always doing research before try to invest in any crypto

[chaser15]

What's up guys, I am relatively new to the crypto world and although I've read a lot and watched countless videos on crypto and how to do your own research, I was wondering what are the most important aspects of a project, and what are the most important factors and things to look for. If you could give me some advice on the resources you guys use that would be really great. I was also wondering if someone could explain to me what is a vesting schedule and what a good token distribution looks like vs a bad one.

Maybe start at how they are building their community. Of course, it will start from scratch then continue following them to see if there's an improvement in their community. While they are working on that, check if project developers are actively engaging with their people who are asking some queries.

Later on, you can now exchange opinions and views at those people there about how they looked at the project then the rest will now be up to you.

You will soon be used to doing it and will discover some other ways on how to research a good project.

[michellee]

I think the most important thing you should look up to is the community supporting the project because in every success of crypto project the main reason is there is huge community backing the project. But you need to be very careful because nowadays there are some dirty tricks to make a project looks lot of supporters but they are all fake or bots.

It is hard to say because I saw an advertisement on the freelance websites, some people offer their services hiring their community to back up the project so the project looks to have big support. When you want to invest in a new project, that will not be easy to find because all of the new projects will almost be the same. They offer something useful for us and will work best for us in the future, but many of them can not prove what they say.

Maybe the only thing that we can do is just invest in small money while we see their progress for a while. If they can achieve their goals step by step, maybe we can add more money, but we still need to be careful because that will not always guarantee their project will succeed in the future. So only invest in the projects with the money you can afford.

[Dr.Osh]

For people new to the crypto world, it's best to avoid investing in new projects, especially if you don't have a way to screen potential new projects by not. I prefer to choose a project that has been around for a long time and has been proven to be good.
however, if you still want to invest in a new project, then try to see the complete information from the team, concept, development, partnership, social media activity, and you can find out information about a project on this forum. other than that pay attention to the activity of telegram. there you can see how active the project is and their plans.

[TastyChillySauce00]

First you should consider whether a coin that you’re gonna invested is having the potential that you expected basically seeing whether it's already near reaching highest value or still have potential and later on you should see the roadmap of the coins and decide whether it’s good for long term investment.
If it's a new coin the first thing to consider is the tokenomic.
A good coin that could mantain its value are coins that are vested for its distribution basically it will prevent it from flooding the market and bring down the value of the coin that’s why it's  also called good token distribution when a coin vesting its coin and maybe they have some plan like staking to mantain the value of the coins or even buyback, I think these few things are the most important.