Before investing, we need to check about the history and flow that coin. Take bitcoin, bitcoin had both huge pump and huge fall. . You can blind hold the bitcoin for the next pump, if the price is reduced. The order of trusted projects bitcoin, Ethereum, litcoin, Ripple.
Checking history only applies to old coins but what about on new coins that don't have an experience yet ,whats your take on it ? to old coins , you are looking if it had a history of pump . Would that means if the coin haven't pump yet you won't give it a chance .
But the thing is the stability of the project. Even now, all new people prepared to inverse in bitcoin for their stability
All new projects are coming from eth and it's smart contract and not on based on btc . Eth is more stable than btc but if the project is based on other smart contracts , it's stable as long as it's not btc