in addition, i see two main problems with all the altcoins that makes them worst things to consider for diversification.
first is the obvious fact that they are always going down in long term, specially whenever bitcoin is making a move no matter if it is a rise or a fall, the altcoins drop. but usually people look at the USD value of altcoins which (only during bitcoin rises) gives them the false sense of profit. what really happens is that if an altcoin is worth 0.1 bitcoin and bitcoin is worth $1000 they show value of $100 then bitcoin rises to $2000 and these coins dump to 0.51 bitcoin but then show price of $1050 so people think they have made profit while their altcoin "gained value"! whereas they have lost almost half of their investment.
Good point, it's common to see only the $ value and people are happy if their altcoin "rises" a little bit while it's less worth calculated in BTC. Same goes for mining / cloudmining when people buy hashrate and make money in $ like investing 500$ (0.1
BTC) and now they have 600$ but it's only 0.05
BTC anymore because Bitcoin rose much more. But different topic.
I allocate 80 percent of my capital into bitcoin. For the rest 20 percent of my capital to invest in altcoins and this part divided into two parts:
- One part for traditional, old altcoins (top ones): 10 to 15 percent of my capital
- One part for new-born altcoins: only 5 percent of my capital. This part is for very risky investment. Even after I due my diligent investigation before investing, it is a risky investment, obviously.
It's a good strategy in my opinion. I'm always searching for promising, new altcoins but it's so hard to wade through tons of shitcoins and waste time for research...
The experience hasn't been misleading, a large part Bitcoin is the best choice.
You see that kind of logic all the time. "A loss isn't a loss until you sell". That's great advice for assets like bitcoin which will almost certainly go back up, and your short term loss will turn in to a long term gain. It's terrible advice for assets like shitcoins which are only going down, and your short term loss will turn in to an even bigger long term loss.
Well said, most legit altcoins start with high expectations but the devs start realizing different kind of problems soon, making adjustments to solve the problems but that is disclosing much more problems and finally the project is dissappointing the public expectations and failing to deliever. In such cases, it's very unlikely that the price will recover.
I've adjusted the title a little bit to avoid misunderstandings. Of course people should buy into
different, not correlated assets and buy gold, stocks etc in addition to crypto.