Topic: HOW TO SPOT A WINNING ICO (Read 2443 times)

Yes i can agree with your Post, you have mentioned that the founders overall seemed like a serious bunch of people that take there ICO very seriously, by constantly working with determination for the successful completion of their project.
I have seen that too over the past few weeks of participating in some of trade.io programs. It's imperative to have a team that will support and maintain its ICO, and their community!

Yes, a good and strong team for any ICO is a serious indication of a winning ICO however a well define and achievable concept is necessary for the overall success of the ICO. Thanks your suggestions are very sound for reading.

If anyone is looking to invest in an ICO I highly recommend checking out Propthereum.io. They are an asset backed cryptocurrency on the blockchain and are expecting a 1566% coin appreciation in a short period of time. All proceeds raised from their ICO will be used to purchase A-grade property worldwide. This will generate a rental income and underlying value for the PTC token holder. The great thing about this concept is that the coin will always increase in value. They launch 20 November and I will be investing so I would love to know all of your opinions. Give their whitepaper a read and let me know what you think.

I my opinion if the progect has a week bounty campaign or not agressive marketing is not defenetly
means that it's a scam. For some reason everyone thinks that big budget on marketing means good idea and
the other way around. Look what happend to tezos and it's just the beggining. I recon that  spring will bring us
unfortunatly huge fall of ICO market.

You can see the reviews of bloggers about the IRS, and participate in the recommended or ask the opinion of literate traders.

Though most ICO's are fake, scams but I don't believe that all ICO devs have bad motives. A good ICO can help us making free money just by following the rules indicated on how to join their bounty campaign that's why before joining any ICO one should investigate at first very carefully.

First and foremost, it is very useful to tell a scam from a legit ICO. Once you’ve decided take a closer look, consider taking the time to read the technical whitepaper to understand how it works (please don’t decide to invest only based on the pretty website or flashy buzzwords). The papers can sometimes be dense but the understanding of the details is very well worth it. Also, you may find it helpful to join the Slack group to ask questions and see what other peoples’ concerns are.

I also try to run from hyped ICOs.

A good due diligence on the company behind, should answer the following questions ?
   1) Is the team real ? Checking the LinkedIn profiles
   2) Is there a active GitHub ?
   3) Is the brand / comma popular in Google Trends ?

For instance, if you look to a future ICO like AppCoins, in the 3 company research points:
   1) Team: https://appcoins.io -> in the section "Team", you have the LinkedIn account
   2) The AppCoins github is active with hundreds of commits: https://github.com/Aptoide/AppCoins-ethereumj
   3) If you go to Google trends, you can compare with other teams projects: https://trends.google.pt/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=Ethereum,Aptoide,Kik

Always do your due diligence / company research.

Like with trade.io upcoming ICO they announcement a collaboration with Modules (those guys who help Google, Nasdaq)

http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/tradeio-announces-strategic-technical-alliance-with-financial-technology-giant-modulus-in-support-of-656606423.html


For bounty visit: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/tradeio-bounty-ico-trade-token-2370663

Research is the key here. Just like any investment knowing the business, the industry and where they are going is vital. Here are a few things i look for in an ICO

- Strong team - Both in development team and also the CEO's / marketing (no point having a great team to create something, if nobody can advertsie it and push the startup in the right direction.
- Realistic vision - not aiming too high or if they do not reach their target everyone who invested will be disappointed
- Solid whitepaper - Well thought out, shows realistic goals, a strong good vision and a plan of action
- Strong social media presence - A social media that shows they are connected with everyone
- Good customer support - Shows they care, and they have invested time and money into making sure the average investor can ask questions
- Good website - A business who is willing to throw time and effort into a good website are less likely to be a scam
- finite supply - ICO's with no cap can be dangerous and can simply just damage their own coin by releasing more for more investment.
-Market they are getting involved with - Is this a new market? or a dying one? who controls the market?

Also here is an interesting article comparing ICO's with a working product vs a vision.

https://medium.com/@crowdholding/mvps-pocs-and-ideas-which-icos-should-i-better-invest-in-and-which-will-let-me-down-369bf1ffae2

Hope this helps and happy investing!

I believe there are many factors to spotting a winning ICO but the one that stands out the most for me would be:
The development team plays a big role in how successful an ICO will be.
Looking at their board of members and advisory team, and checking their profiles.

Having said this, ive looked at trade.io and it looks like something I would be interested in, I have a question..
Will this be a utility or a security token?

Yes, this is a really nice project, thank you very much for showing it to us. I will follow him.

Indeed! I have studied trade.io, and especially the concept with the liquidity pool! It seems something that will pick-up very fast in the upcoming days!

Also here is the ANN: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/tradeioann-ico31169749-partner-civic-bancorhitbtc-okex-2367245

There are various website provides reports about ICO. but these may be viced. So study Project Report, Road map,  White paper, Team details. By study these points you may spot  a winning ICO.

But how would you know this before hand?

Why do you say small max cap? Some projects need a large cap to accomplish what they say. I would re-type your suggestion to: Appropriate cap according to the deliverable's of the project.

there No guarantees of WINNING ICO all you need is to do some research about the dev team if the are proven to be effective to achieving. and you should read about the whitepaper it will make you understand about the idea the ico is bringing. good luck finding one.

Agree with all of the above you list help me in spotting good icos

ICO's sell their tokens for other tokens, usually ETH or BTC. And they fund the project with those ETH or BTC they received, not with the ICO tokens. So the price of ICO tokens doesn't have any impact on funding the project. They might get in trouble if ETH or BTC price dropped too much. That's why in some way I understand most ICO's collet more ETH or BTC that they really need. This wa they can protect themselves in case price of collected token falls.

ICO tokens aren't usually traded during ICO's. EOS is a bit special in that matter, because their tokens are being traded during the ICO, so if price gets dumped that influences the amount of ETH they receive every day. But it's perfectly normal if 2 million new tokens are added in circulation every day the inflation is so huge, the price will fall eventually. So it's not the dumpers who made the price fall, but strange model of ICO EOS has. And I wouldn't worry about EOS running out of funds. They've already collected much more than they need. I would be more worried if they are capable of delivering what they promised. First testing environment should should have been done by the end of the summer, but it still not done. Missing deadlines from the roadmap won't make the price rise for sure. And I've also read some rumors Bitshares' supposed to have some major security issues. I can't find the link right now to prove it, but if it's true - EOS is based on Bitshres source code.

Good ico =

-small max cap
-great team
-big advisors
-big exchange.

Take a look for Pally ICO (15th october), EtherDelta confirmed listing Advisors from HSBC, JP Morgan, small cap.