Was mining vertcoin recently, turned it off due to that I am looking into leafcoin and mining more dogecoin than usual due to a 10% boost that the suchmine.com are giving for the next 40 hours or so.
Also I'm mining feathercoin.
Look for the low difficulty ones that can actually be traded on Cryptsy and can be easily converted to BTC. There's the answer I think.
Watch out for scampools. If you don't see
Have fun.
edit: you all know this stuff changes all the time, but here are a few nice tools for research and analysis purposes:
http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/ (scroll down for the 'cool tools')
http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/coins/info (lots of raw goodage, relative difficulty, top tabs show exchanges and arbitrage data)
http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/dogecoin-mining-calculator (dogecoin mining calculator - see mining tab for many more coins)
http://btcinvest.net/en/bitcoin-mining-profit-calculator.php (the most excellent, btcinvest calculator, has the factors you need)
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/18095/what-should-i-consider-when-deciding-to-whether-or-not-to-mine/18097#18097
Thanks I've been on the same page!
dont expect people to do it for u
start here
http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency
This is not a request of having people do it for me, I have all of my paperwork and sites setup as well as my exchanges for what I feel. This was a simple question to bring discussion on what people felt. It's all speculation no matter who's advice it is. This is a forum, and hence a place to bring discussions and peoples thoughts together who share the same love. In this case, crypto currencys (more specifically, bitcoin).
If I were to ask, what currency do you guys think will prevail next to bitcoin, I wouldn't expect an answer of "Do your research, and don't expect people to do it for you". I would expect some very educated and thought out replies that would raise discussion and fire up the thoughts of others. That's how the business world does it, you bring up a question so that ideas can bounce off each other. But thanks for your well thought out reply!