Seems like I have been saying this for a quite a long while - but probably Jimmy said it better... hahahahahhaa
This is so true
All cryptocurrencies have a strong correlation between them. If BTC falls, all of them fall. The volatility is a bit different between them, but the up and down movements are almost all the same.
Even though with recent price performance, you would likely be correct to identify correlation between cryptos, I would not misidentify that correlation to strength of any of the other cryptos, except that they are largely riding on the security strength and the sound money strength of bitcoin, and even if it might appear that one or another of the shitcoins is engaging in innovation or price leading, that is likely a mirage - because bitcoin continues to be the strength amongst the whole crypto space, even if some of the other (shit) coins could cause you to become way more rich than if you merely played bitcoin by itself.
For now, I have only made money with bitcoin, and had 3 lucks in ICO. Of my lucky ICO, i sold just one of them, the others reach 1000% and now they are in 90% loss...
Perhaps if you are able to time them better then you could come out better, but I understand that timing is more easily said than done, and might require either decent luck or some kind of insider information track.
Even with Ethereum I am losing money now with this DIP...
From now on, only bitcoin for me. I am looking for an exit point for my shitcoins
Your transitioning over to bitcoin might happen to a lot of other folks who come into the space because of shit coin distractions; however, it can take a while to really establish your bitcoin bonafides including going through some bitcoin UPs and DOWNs, and refusing and rejecting various altcoin and ICO temptations. Personally, I don't find any problem with guys (and gal) who might choose to invest a very small portion of their crypto value into alt coins and ICOs, and perhaps as a kind of fun, but really I don't see any reason to use more than 10% of your crypto value, and personally, mine is still less than 2% and seemingly closer to 1% based on recent continued fall of value of alts as compared with bitcoin. I mostly ignore them, but if one or another pumps, then I might cash some out, but I don't even care if each of them or all of them go to zero.