definitely stay away from ICOs. and by extension it is best to stay away from altcoins too.
stick to bitcoin and only invest a small amount of money that you can afford to lose.
study the market and try to learn about the things that affect it. try to gain experience by looking at the charts.
stay away from groups that call themselves "trading groups" "trading signals" and the obvious ones: "pump groups" they are all the same and are scams.
then slowly if you gained experience you can invest more and also expand into altcoins if you felt the need.
Agree. First of all awoid high risk assets. You can loose all your money very fast and when you will learn a bit you wont have money to earn on that. High risk means ico and low marketcap coins:
https://coinmarketcap.com/ or
https://coincheckup.com/available coins set by marketcap. Firstly invest in bitcoin. Learn a bit and then learn and invest in top 50.
When you will know more then consciously take higher risk but alwais with adequate capital.
News has strong impact on market. Grab callendar where you can chack incoming events of almost every coin. And remeber market will react different on every news during bear market and bull. During bull market news about stupid rebranding (with only logo change) can push price 100% up. During bear market sometimes even lauching mainnet can not push price up a bit.
https://coinmarketcal.com/If you are investing in any coin i highly suggest you to follow their twitter/reddit/github to be up to date. Knowing if they are on date with their project or once by once dalaying important implamentations (sometimes they do that beacuse they dont know how to solve it and will never know). Projects with that problem after time will alwais loose price.
Good exchange is iportant too. I highly sugest you binance .Very low fees and high volume. Dont chose exchanges with low volume. There is rison for that. Delay in transacions, lack of trust from society. The safast way to hold token are paper wallets and hard wallets. Every exchange is risky. Read about MTGOX. On low volume exchanges spread can be up to 100 - 1000 % with small coins. Awoid that and alwais calculate twice if you are not sure.