I have been there, yes, we buy tokens with the fine intention of getting 200% plus in a week... and sometimes it does happen, and most times it does not. But apart from purely gambling to this, sometime there are projects out there that really seem to have a future. You have read many times: look at the team, the code, the community,... but there is something you really have to look into and this seems to be forgotten many times: the economics.
Most of DeFi projects are hyper inflated but in bull market, and in a trend of DeFi, people skip this fact, accept the risk and participate in the trend. Even it is an uptrend for DeFi, not all participants will end this own investment with profit.
If they buy those tokens after launch, when price is x5, x10 and hesitate to cut loss, with hyper inflation of those tokens, price will be divided by 10, 20 times before they can see rallies. Rallies might occur a few months after launch and most of gamblers in the start would fearful shake their hands.
If they are aware of economics, they will wait for better times, to buy those tokens. Hyper inflation and overpriced at beginning are bad.
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