I invested in the presale, and I plan on buying a bit during the ICO.

I recently graduated college and my father gave my brother and I 1000 Ethereum as a graduation gift. He told us to hold onto it for the next few years as an investment. My brother keeps telling me about ICO's, and he has recommended Enjin and Airtoken. I'm wondering if I should hold or invest in these upcoming ICOs. Any information will help.

Well treat your Ether as Money or investment in a Stock. And Ether is going to do well and has very high chances of doing great in the next 5 years.

In my opinion i would suggest even if you are looking to invest in ICOs, your objective is to outsmart the growth in Ethereum, only then it makes sense right. Sometimes you are better off doing nothing and sometimes its the other way.

I suggest you keep 500 Ether as is, and do not invest anywhere else and just hold them for the next few years, they may one day be sufficient for you to by yourself a new house.

The other 500 Ether you bucket into 20 blocks of 25 Ether each, and over time look at alternate investments and ICOs, with each ICO you put in max of 25 Ether, so even if you pick a not so good one, your risk is limited. Apart from ICOs you could also put the 25 ETH into already listed Alt coin which are trading below ICO price after doing your research.

As for Enjin ICO, its a good one within the gaming space. And with the defined rate hike thru the ICO entering in the 1st week would be a good idea.

All the best with your investments!

If I were you I would hold 900 eth for a long investment, and with a 100 I would invest in ICOs. There is a massive profit to be made, but be careful not everything that shines is gold. Research as much as possible before investing, listen to everybody follow no one.

Can your dad adopt me?? What a gift!

But, I feel very confident that Enjin will be an excellent investment.

In the gaming industry, it has the biggest upside imo. I stumbled upon this article yesterday comparing all of them and found it very intriguing:

https://blog.icotracker.org/top-10-gaming-cryptocurrencies-ico/

Enjin got an A rating, while other massive coins didn't.

Thoughts?

Yup i completely agree with you anf that's ehat I mentioned in the last line of the comment.
Enjin is onr of those very rare projects who have such a solid backing both team and product wise.
I"m very sure this will give excellent returns in the long. run.

Someone said, if you hold those 1000 ETH you may be able to buy a house someday.

You can already buy a house with that. It's $300k. Sure, not in some places, but in many places that will buy you a house.

That will be done between 1st and 3rd oct I suppose. Just before the ICO starts
The devs have said it multiple times everywhere.

I believe it's after the pre-sale before the the start of the ICO.

Good to see this thread.