Hope my answer will help you follow this step by step guide by
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Explore :- Before finding best projects for investment its better to clear your basics like how blockchain works & how money flows in the cryptomarket. Different types of cryptocurrency classification like coins, utility token, security tokens etc. How to go with the market trends and hypes, this will boost your confidence.
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Target Market :- There are so many projects listed on CMC targeting different different markets or sectors such as contracts, remittance, data security, medical, exchange, entertainment, supply-chain, privacy, asset backed stable coins etc. Do some research to choose a project which appeals to you or in the field you are familiar with.
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Team :- When you choose a project for investment take a good and hard look at the team of the projects as they are the one who are going to make or break the projects success. check few points like
> Is the leadership track record is impressive?
> Is the team members have experience in the industry which they are targeting to disrupt?
> Have they worked on blockchain projects before?
The more the stronger team better the chances of survival of the projects & good chances of making profit in longer run.
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Traction :- Now look at how much progresses the team have made specially on technology and adoption. While it is nice to find projects with good developers who are constantly updating their tech but it will fail if it is not being used. Research its adoption rate, the size of the community. Follow their social media accounts such as twitter or reddit and join their telegram community to find details about community support for the project.
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Competition :- Try to look for competitors of the project you have chooses as it is important to look for competition as there are several coins which have similar mission and vision in some cases the all competitor projects will succeed but in some cases only one will succeed. Try to find weakens and strengths of project of the projects which you have chosen with their competitors if there are any than make decision.
take a look at this video in tweets this will help you how to research
https://twitter.com/CoinMarketCap/status/1060547903364718592If you are an short term trader then go with the market trends only like hardfork, testnet, mainnet, partnership announcement, node integration etc. Look at this post this will help you to find the ways how to go with the market trends
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.39624827