It was not asked if it should be something right, but it was obvious that the guy needs an idea on where to invest it and that means the OP needs some idea on how to earn more from his regular $40 earning each day. With that, I am sure that OP needs something that earns, so your first suggestion is good but the second which is gambling, that's off!
I don't know there are people that are suggesting some investments just for fun. It would be fine if the money that will be invested is just going to be for fun too. Gambling for fun will surely ripped off your pants easily and that $40 will not even be enough if you drag yourself into addiction with it, trading would be better.
dividing the 280 per week into 28 ten dollar increments and buying low valued coins with each ten dollar set would end a month with an investment in 128 alt coins per month. if these were bought at 1 sat each and even 1 per month goes crazy and sells at 10,000 sat, or even 1,000, then that would be a nice little investment. there is actually work in this though, buying 30 coins per week is pretty easy, but checking the list will get harder and harder as the list grows and grows, for that reason i would keep all the work on one exchange and that way a simple login and peek at the wallet screen would show those that have the highest estimated btc value
Low valued coins will not guarantee profit better to say that choose the valuable coins which is preferably good if op has this amount of money. And buying a lot of coins is not going to be an easy task for him unless he used to sit in front of his computer and doesn't do other things that he might do. But I got your point that he will surely rake a lot of profit if he is going to follow your suggestion.
i agree with you from a seasoned investors point of view. you and i can likely find 1-3 good coin investments per week and have a 50% success rate. but, if someone without the eye for picking the coins wants to try, i would rather see them succeed through sheer numbers. there is work, but the work requires very little knowledge and that steady playing and sifting through the coins, the wallets, the forums and such will start to build a knowledge base in the newer person through simple exposure. not outright disagreeing with you, i do agree with your method, i just think that someone without experience will have better luck shooting a shotgun into a crowd than using a sniper rifle to pick out a single target
Yes almost everything here in forum that we need to know is already here so trading or finding out those valuable coins will be easy already plus the there is no problem anymore with the investment because you do have the money for it. And if someone without experience, better not to rely with luck cos' the money will just be wasted if it is for trading.