First of all, this depends on how much risk you will be able to bear with $5000.
The ROI in the crypto market is definitely greater than the traditional stock market this year. Considering the key factors of each bull market in the past, we’ve seen that Bitcoin always leads the rise of other cryptocurrencies, and continues to rise after breaking its previous high, the remaining mainstream cryptocurrencies follow the Bitcoin bull together.
Compared to other non-mainstream cryptocurrencies, since Bitcoin has already led the rise for a long period of time, the growth potential of BTC in the future is relatively small.
The potential rewards ranked by ATH indicator are as follow:
XRP ( 712.98% ) >LTC ( 106.49% )
If we only consider the top 10 mainstream cryptocurrencies, the ranking would be:
BCH > XRP > XLM > LTC > LINK > BNB > ADA > DOT > ETH > BTC
https://www.quora.com/I-have-5k-to-invest-should-I-buy-Ripple-or-Litecoin-I-do-not-want-to-hold-on-to-this-investment-for-more-than-a-yearAlmost everyone on this forum would agree with me that ripple is a shit coin. There's no point investing in such coin because of the high risk involved and which means there's a very high possibility of losing your funds.
Litecoin is built on the bitcoin blockchain and so you may invest in that.
You should, however, know that the best form of investment in the crypto world is to invest in bitcoin. There's no way you'd lose out on that. Just hold for some time instead of wasting time analyzing which coin has the potential to increase in value