Several days ago I wrote about factors that show project high potential for growth in this topic
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.20281893I researched all projects from the time they had appeared on
https://coinmarketcap.com/ starting with 2015 and that is what I had noticed.
Only few projects after their were announced were part of top 30 on ico during first week.
2015
Projects / announce date
Stellar XLM - 2015-11-29
Factom FCT - 2015-10-11
Ethereum ETH - 2015-08-09
Asset Backed... ABC - 2015-05-31
NEM XEM - 2015-04-05
GridPay GRID 2015-02-22
GetGems GEMZ - 2015-01-18
2016
Projects / announce date
Ethereum Classic ETC - 2016-10-30
Ardor ARDR - 2016-10-16
Stellar Lumens XLM - 2016-10-16
SingularDTV SNGLS - 2016-10-09
Xaurum XAUR - 2016-08-28
Waves WAVES - 2016-06-26
Lisk LSK - 2016-05-29
The DAO DAO - 2016-05-29
Steem STEEM - 2016-04-24
2017
Projects / announce date
Qtum QTUM - 2017-07-16
EOS EOS - 2017-07-02
IOTA MIOTA - 2017-06-18
Basic Attenti... BAT - 2017-06-04
Gnosis GNO - 2017-05-07
Melon MLN - 2017-03-19
Komodo KMD - 2017-02-12
Golem GNT - 2017-01-08
Iconomi ICN - 2016-10-30
Right now we have a lot of ICO going on that is why I am using the following strategy:
Short term strategy (up to 7 days): Quick profit can be made only on popular projects that are supported by press and famous people in the community.
Mid term strategy (from 7 days to 3 months): projects that announce solution for important problems and that have strong team, portfolio, sales, community support.
Long term strategy (3 months to 3 years): projects containing a lot of pieces of success, each project needs individual deep analysis.
We gotta also understand that strong projects can give results on any time period and any other projects might not survive even before first version will be released.