Bitcoin was once in bad shape for the first couple of years, Up and Down Side to Side. Ether is smart and so is DAO. They just need more time. However..... ETH and DAO are not day trading currencies. You will become very wealth if you buy into ETH/DAO now and park it for 5 years!
I just don't think the DAO will actually recover. Why would anyone trust something, that was so catastrophically broken that it costs millions of dollars? As you have said, eth over long term, but otherwise, these assets aren't going anywhere too soon.
I agree. If you are after a profit sooner rather than later. DONT buy into eth or dao. But if you can afford a couple of hundred dollars to throw into a eth/dao wallet and forget about it for a while..... DO IT.
The DAO/Ethereum is very risky business. It is for speculation only at the moment. If you have extra money, buy some.
But not yet. Id wait til right before the fork, or right after it. The price is entirely too unstable at the moment, as previously said.
I might enter the market a few weeks after the hard fork. Things might settle down during that period.
The price is low due to the bitcoin shills. But the bitcoin price is also dropping at the moment. They are destroying both.