I can tell you exactly what you were thinking. You were in HOPE that Lisk had enough to perform like Ethereum and Iota. That is verbatim what was going through your mind.
News flash - it isn't even able to fall into the Bitcoin-Litecoin / Ethereum-Lisk comparison you are on your knees praying for.
And Iota isn't trading at 30x ICO price pre-launch by accident either. It already has more than the Microsoft association with grants and other partners in the real world as well. It is the first non-blockchain ledger. Real innovation within a sector of mindblowing growth expected.
You won't see ANY pre-launch trading AT ALL.
You know why?
Because there will be zero demand.
None!
No one truly believes in LISK. None of you care. You could give two shits about it other than making a few bucks.
There will be zero demand. Everyone that was going to buy already did.
Now every one of you is looking to sell
You know what that means, right?
It will establish a floor at 1000. This won't be a profit situation. It will be a minimizing loss game.
As you all run for the door, each person that get out before the person behind them will lose alittle less.
It's going to be a bloodbath of epic proportions!!
Be honest, you knew in the back of your mind you were fooling yourself, but you rolled the dice anyway...
And crapped out
FACT
i had to laugh hard when i read this. you made my day. This is just what everybody is thinking but nobody saying - unless they (Lisk "team") proof the opposite and invest +90% of the ICO funds into professional developers from academic research institutions. Otherwise it will really fall like a meteor.