Remember people need to think more long term and not short term.
Yes, this ^ exactly this. It's essential to look at any crypto this way, but even more so for "smaller" coins. Finding a project, or ideally several of them, that you like the looks of and has proven itself over time, invest in that and be patient. Just always do your due diligence and research + observe the developers activity, attitudes, competence, etc... if those things are all positive over a reasonable period of time then it's worthy of serious consideration to invest in it. Solaris has met those parameters for me and has been the best investment I've ever made in crypto so far.
It is not the project that may be a problem in some case but people who invest in it as well. I saw a big pump in Solaris shortly after I started mining it. I thought it was going up even more, I sold some of my balance at 55$ then all dropped drastically down to 8 or less $ a few weeks ago? That was because the pump was artificially created and it seemed like everyone wanted a solaris masternode but it wasn't just solaris. TUN, MUN, GOA were in the same place. I remember TUN trading at about 72$, I sold at this much around the time of Solaris pump. TUN dropped down to 20-30c these days. How crazy is this? It was all because the masternode rewards were far too high and masternode owners dumped the coins and continue doing so. Mining it isn't really profitable, it was for a day or two back then only.
Same GOA and MUN however they didn't pump as much but dropped in value to the same area - 30-40c a coin.
I'm saying all this to make you realise how good this project seems. One of the most stable coins out there and I invested a lot of time and effort in it recently. So far it is only trading as mining wasn't profitable at all for long time now but I spend mined coins on buying and trading more solaris these days. The time will come soon I will get enough coins for either a masternode or stacking, not sure which one will be better.
I will set up a masternode only if I have enough coins to continue trading the way I am doing now.
I said bad things about this coin two months back pissed off with people dumping it. They still do it even though everyone can see the huge demand much bigger than supply but I see the potential and I am happy to invest in this project a lot more. I even spread the word about solaris everywhere else, ob exchanges and other forums.