I do not invest in ICO's again. I only made losses at the ICO's this year. (example Polybius (10$ each Coin on ICO), ARTE ) . I'll wait until I see the coins on the market and observe first.
My best experience 2017 is with existing coins that are already listed somewhere and have a very active community and DEV's. ( PIVX, STRAT, WAVE, ARK)
In 2018 I see this potential at POSW and UNIFY. I have been observing them for some time and they are currently growing strongly in the areas of community, the teams behind them and what's behind the coins.
I think in 2018 I will pursue the strategy: Never ICOs, first observe how the coins develop then compare and then invest.
I don't agree with you.
I burned on some icos too but some i made great profits.
Some icos never come back to ico price just pump all the times.
Artemine was a destined to fail and most of the investors were knowing that you should have checked more. We bought because our mne's worth was really low and think maybe this time it would be better but it didnt.
I'm not saying that you should not buy the coins in general. But only after the Coin is on the market and you realize what and who is behind it and where the journey goes.
And the probability that the price of an ICO token will go down is far higher than it goes up. Because of the free tokens, for example, which are thrown by the investors once on the market.
Best current example Cryptopay, behind it is already an established company yet the price of tokens has slipped from 0.01 ETH to 0.004 ETH after the ICO. It would have been 60% cheaper to buy the tokens. Not now that the ETH price has risen accordingly. But at that time you would have received twice the amount of coins.
Edit: Of course, there are also good ICOs (IOTA, NXT) but this to find that is gambling for me. Both had good entry points afterwards. But that's just my opinion and experience from 2017.
I'm more of the safe type Arte was a risk for me what seemed to go wrong. Just like other ICO experiences.
I don't agree too.
First, there are projects which don't offer any bounties. For example, i bought sophiatx and it was %50 up after the first day but etherdelta problems don't know now.
The second gvt, it gathered little on the ico and also had some bounties but after release, it make a 10x and now it is 5x i guess.
Third, i bought some vibehub on ico. It was looking good and very little investments so a low market cap. It is 12x now. It never drops down below ico price even it wasn't possible to buy with ico price after release.
Some projects make 3x 5x 10x just after the release and if you don't have them on the ico, you can't buy it because it pumped and wait for a correction.
And also if a project drop after ico, for example, paypie, it was a great project but after ico it dropped like %50 and didn't pay those big bounties. If you are on the right project it will rise at the end like paypie. Just choose your ico good and you are good to go.
