Topic: ICO or buy later on exchange ? - page 42. (Read 30156 times)

i think buying the token at the ICO will be much profitable than buying on exchanges, because many ICOs offer a huge promotion to investors like private sell with extremely cheap price, even cheaper than ICO price, so when the token is listed on exchanges, surely investors will have profit if the ICO success, but buying on exchanges is much safer than at ICO because we know the ICO was success and evaluate the risks in the future, but we have to buy at a very high price than ICO.

If you are a major investor, it is more profitable for you to buy coins on the ICO or rather even on the Pre-ICO because it gives out the biggest bonuses, thereby obtaining a bonus of 30% -40%-50% you do not need to wait for the launch of the project in which you invest when you exit in market you already earn a good profit!

To be wise, there are ICO's that gives a big portion of their supply to bounties and you can't rely with those ICO's. It's either the bounty hunters will dump the coin immediately once it's listed on the exchanges so for legit investors that join the ICO and allocated fund as their capital to that ICO will be stuck there. Whether you choose to join during the ICO stage or after it's listed on the exchange, make sure that you are choosing the right one. But I prefer to see listed on exchange, to see if there's a good trading volume on that certain coin.

If the ICOs was really good as you think depends on the search you've done on the ICOs participating on ICO sale is the best choice if the ICOs are not that good as you think you can buy on the dip when already list on the exchange and buy when pump for a quick profit.

If we want to buy coin pricing at ico value is not necessarily profitable especially if we do not have experience to choose a good project. Precisely the losses we get, The exchange rate depends on the circulation and volume of the coin, if indeed we find a best project is to continue to do both participate in ico and buy after there market later.

There are many factors at play here, so there’s no right or wrong answer.

Market and investor sentiment is important. With the bull market in Dec and Jan and investors looking 100-1,000% gains lots of ICO’s came onto the market with prices 10-20x higher than ICO price and then appreciated further as coins/tokens were hyped on YouTube and Reddit etc - but those gains have mostly been lost now. With the crash and depressed market in Feb and March I would say that coins/tokens have tended to come onto the market at close to ICO price, with higher prices sometimes for projects that were popular and difficult to get in the ICO such as Zilliga, but also lower tier projects coming onto market at up to half the ICO price. In the current market I have observed that the price of new coins/tokens then tends to fall after the first few days of buying interest, often to below ICO price. This can be more marked if there were a lot of air-dropped or bounty coins/tokens that people often sell as soon as they’re listed. So at present there’s no problem I think waiting to buy ICO projects on market.

Be aware that ERC20 tokens are available on an exchange like IDEX within a few days of them being distributed and unlocked after the ICO, and this is the place to get the best price before they are listed on the bigger exchanges where there is often a bump up in price due to more investor interest - the so-called ‘Binance effect’!

The price of a coin/token in an ICO will depend on the number being sold and the hard cap looking to be raised by the project. Some projects will have well under 100 million tokens and some projects will have well over a billion tokens,  and some projects will be looking for 10-20 million dollars while other projects will be looking for 50-100 million dollars - so token prices can vary from fractions of a cent to a dollar or two.

And some blockchain projects sell out in their private sale or pre-sale stage before the public ICO stage so that the public crowdsale is cancelled, and then your only option is to buy the coin/token once it’s listed on exchanges if you weren’t in the private or pre-sale that often have higher minimum buy-in limits.

A final thing to remember is that if you do buy a projects coins/tokens in the pre-sale part of the ICO yo get the best deal, then your money will be tied up and unavailable for usually a few months until tokens are distributed and unlocked and can be sold, and there’s no guarantee that the public ICO will reach its soft cap and that the project won’t be cancelled with your money returned later hopefully - and even if the ICO is successful there can be delays with getting coins/tokens onto exchanges where they can be liquid for you, so you will be tying up capital in these uncertain times buying in the ICO and it may be better to wait till you at least know that the coin/token is trading on exchanges and buy then. There’s also the worry in these uncertain times that the market may crash another 50-90%, and you may then be well out of pocket with a coin/token you bought at its ICO pre-sale a few months before in better times, compared to the price you could have got it when it lists after a big crash.

i had a mix experience ,
many coins i bought dipped upto 90% in just 1 month
for example Iungo token was sold at $1 in ico , but even after listing on exchanges like kucoin it dipped upto $0.08
similar experience with others .

however project like credits , refereum got pumped after ico ..

so its depend on your research whether you nail a right ico or not ...

note -  even a good project dip after listing then it does not mean that project is dead or scam ,, it will progress in future , so never sell in loss or panic .

Making any investment varies from your capital and skills on how to trade. You can do both but be sure that you already have enough knowledge before you make an investment.

It is better to buy then on exchange. If you do not have direct information on this project, from the creators or partners. Then don't risk it.         

I prefer buy market because almost all ico now price below ico when entering my own market have observed ico success or not going down maybe just factor of bounty which big will make price in dump

I prefer ico to be used as my coin purchase, because with good analysis and also understanding every project we can get good project and cheap price, when already entering exchanger will get expensive price. it can be seen and can be monitored in the exchanger so if buying diexchanger must be expensive price.

I think it is different for each ico's. It will be depent which market list the token. some markets list tokens crazy prices. Some of it listed cheap.
Well most of the time that those newly listed coin in an exchange from ICO is lower than the ico price. Some investors are only making money with the ICO and dumped their coin right after it is being listed and also those bounty hunters. So i think its much better if i buy the coins right after being listed in exchange. This is my idea.

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This is an important question but as always it depends on the project. You will never the answer before it happens. Sometimes coin’s price never falls below ico price and it moons but sometimes it falls seriously below ico price and you regret buying it from ico. For example envion had a very successful ico and they collected more than 100 million dollars. Ico price of the coin was $1 but right now it’s around $0.6. As we can see even icos with huge success doesn’t guarantee you a instant profit.

if u hope to get pretty good profit then invest during ico . Of course it depends which ico you choose. i think in current market situation - better to buy in ico.

ICOs are not as profitable right now but if you are willing to dig deep enough you will find a way to make some gains in the long run.

I think buying coins during ICO is only profitable, if the project is good. Otherwise, the price of most coins goes down after the ICO. It would be better if you buy when it is listed on Etherdelta. Or you buy the tokens from the bounty people. they often sell below price

Difficult question. There have been ICO tokens that have gone up 1,000%+. During ICO all campaigns make big discounts and after ICO you have a good chance to make x10, but it risky. There is no guarantee of the growth.

Maybe more so during the ICO depending on the bonus amount. Usually a 50/50 tossup between being right bellow ICO price or several times above it. If you believe in the company and tech, just invest in the ICO.

Now it is a good deal to buy on the exchange, the cost will be much lower, and the fraud will be avoided.