@askmecrypto
Thank you for the advice and for sharing your suggestions. This is very helpful. You are right - I should be looking into protecting myself from all angles.
I am trying to read articles/youtube to understand this stuff. I might sound stupid but I am just trying to understand the basic stuff right now (coin wallet, keys, how to transfer money etc.). Probably I should get my basics sharp before starting to think about investments.
This community seems awesome. It is just that I am finding it hard to separate out the "general advertising - follow my coin" from "genuine posts" but I am sure there are a lot of people with good intentions here.
Cheers!
To start from, I would suggest you to list out 5 coins from CMC (make sure you are selecting the tokens/projects which you understand) study them good, look about their current position and their future perspectives/aims/vision and how strong and dedicated the team is.
Apart from this, check how good is there marketing team is. For example, $STRAT is one of my favorite alt with dependable tech, strong team, awesome project, backed up by good tech, however, it is the fall of there marketing strategies that it is 10 times below its real worth!!
There are other strong Alts, but always remember $BTC is the big daddy, learn about the patterns, study about TA and FA and along with that comes market sentiments.
There are many more things which you will learn with time.
All the very best and Cheers!!