After checking through through altcoins,
their ieos,
the immediate pump after ieo,
The stable price and volume for few weeks, months,
And the sudden crash in price,
I want to say that any research on altcoin whatsoever is pure waste of time & energy. it's only the coin devs/team and that can guarantee someone the exact time to invest & exit, it is better to invest and hodl altcoins on the short notice and take profits.
when you're ready to hodl for a long time. It is better you do all that research on trading TA wise for btc & eth than any other altcoin whatsoever.
This is my ample opinion, i will like to further learn from suggestions
New projects nowadays makes it look like research etc is a waste of time, I won't say it is entirely a waste of time, at least for the meantime it helped people to choose good IEOs they invested in and made good gains within the stipulated time. But considering long term investment on most altcoins, that is where the issues lies and from recent happenings, research rarely works, because, the team have every power of either improving or not of which most of the times they choose to lag behind while giving excuses hence the decline in the altcoin's price. In addition, it is good to know that, only a few project team works hard to improve hence making research on long term investment a good thing.