handle coin itself will be best investment.
Except i open investment xd
You don't want to suggest HYIP but you are mentioning it though you are right that they are fraud and scam, no newbie should invest there to avoid frustration and being fooled by those lazy companies. Holding of bitcoin is one of the best investment but you need to take a lot of time before seeing the result, add to it trading of alt coin.
Holding bitcoin is better than getting tempted for easy high returns and then losing the coins. Many newbies fall prey of such investments and they can understand which ones are legit and which ones are fraud. They also want to make easy money and hence end up investing there.
The best investment is bitcoin itself. You can buy some today and see the price a few months later when increase occurs, you can sell it to get back profits. Then you can reinvest or save the profit.
Well you are right with it, much better if you will do nothing with your bitcoins rather than investing it to risky ones that will turn out soon to be a scam investment. It's already our attitude to become gullible when reading out a company's offer with their return of investment and daily profit but it's too good to be true, I consider holding as the best.
I don't know why you are saying that holding for a longer term sucks. If you will be inspired with those early adopters and hold their coin for a lot of years until now, it's worth it. If you think that holding is being lazy, it's your choice not all of the holders are just sticking with it, of course they had their other investments as you mentioned those.