I think more bitcoin by buying more altcoin is risky and totally not recommended for newbies or even for experienced people. You can never tell with altcoins.
That's certain unpredictable if newbies will look for the potentiality of any altcoins, though it had a good platforms shown according to their specific white paper but it doesn't mean we're going to trust 100% because risking your funds is totally a suicide. Even experienced person tend to lose bigger capital of money, how much more those newbies that can't even learn trading more serious. If they'll try to experiment the market trade situations, they should find more time and knowledge in order to acquire all those desirable skills, and never use bigger funds on trading unless they mastered trading completely.