Yeah Iconomi is making itself good nowadays and I can say that $50 is going to be worth with Iconomi. And thanks for that update, I didn't knew that they are now making ties with byteball the devs of ICN are very serious with their project. So that is going to be worth to invest right now, I just regret that I didn't bought it earlier.
altcoins are always much more profitable than bitcoin but guess what there are also much more losses in altcoins at the same time. you can find hundreds of other altcoins and study each of them, they go up for a while and then drop down.
the only safe investment (safer than the rest) is bitcoin. and for someone with no trading experience it is best to invest in bitcoin only.