Now obviously if you want to make money short term, this wouldn't be possible if the crypto market is going down right?
you can earn even on falling market as long as your timeframe is short enough (f.e scalping) or you can open short possition that earns of price decline.
Now these memecoins are all frauds right? I forgot the exact term that is used for these but it's when creator of a coin puts it and then people buy and then the price drops... what's the term for this? But even if you buy those coins and then sell when you make a profit, it's fine right as long as you don't hold these coins at the end when price falls?
Yes they are all frauds. Its called pump and dump shame. The ods of winning is super low and risk/reward ratio is not worth the try. In normal, good casino house edge is around 1-5%. With meme coins its like 90%.
If you are planning to trade and make short term trades... do you suggest normal altcoins? By normal altcoins I mean any altcoin in the top 100. But probably it should be the top 50 or so. What about memecoins? Seems with memecoins you can make a lot more in what you put in right but the risk is higher?
I suggest bitcoin and if you are greedy and bitcoin volatility is not enough for you ... go with leverage. 99% of altcoins are not worth a penny. Its impossible to calculate if we are about to see a pump or a whale is about to dump to buy new yaht. Just think for a moment. How many projects from top 50 CMC are worth above $1 billion? $1 billion for an open source code that can be cope/paste. Without userbase and mostly without unique use case.
However if you put say $1000 in a memecoin. It can 10x. You can't really do that with any real altcoin in the top 100 that isn't a memecoin right? Now if the memecoin goes to almost 0... well you only lose $1000. But you can 5x or 10x your memecoin right? So as of now and recently, are there altcoins or memecoins like that? Such that you buy it and hold on to it for few days or week or weeks and then as long as you sell it before the price plummets you profit?
yes but risk/reward is not worth the try. i'll put it that way. you can make 100x with meme coins but odds of winning are 1:1000 or even less. Its much better to do 10% profit (with stoploss, risking 10% loss) with 70% odds of winning than trying to do 100x risking 100% in instant rugpull with odds 1:1000.