Just learn to read about the team and also try to discuss the project in the ANN thread of that particular ICO you are talking about. If everything seems to be positive in those discussion and if the team is experienced ICO management then you have good chance of hitting the right ICO really. Despite of this you should go after the publicity reach if that particular ICO. I mean if the name of that particular ICO is everywhere then just take a shot and invest into it, you will benefit because the marketing makes sure they will receive large volumes of investors. So there are many small and big factors which defines ultimate fate of it.

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on our cryptocurrency market, there are many kind of ICO projects and many kind of coins, however, most of them is fraud, people usually dont do research deeply to understand is that a good project is not. so it depends on us to choose whether to invest in ICO project or not and do research about that project before making investment.

OK. If many here believe that 90 percent of ICO fraud, then let's create a branch in which we will make a full list of these ICO. Also, in order not to be chatterboxes, we must justify our conclusions.

Guys, you talk about different things. He asking what a good ICO from investor prospective. He you need to ask one more question long or short term. Some event not very good projects can give you much in short term, but in long term they just die. Just choose the right ICO analytic services, its kind of complicated to evaluate ICO potential ROI while you not professional.

Yes, thats why I think it need to be regulated. One day, people will lose a lot of money on this. Now you still can trade shit coin (which product are "in development"), but most of them worth notging

More and more ICOs now even dont have smart contract before fundrising, now a lot of ICOs dont have it. Thats a red flag for me.

Its kind of hard to decide by your own. Yes you can choose ICOs from category you are a specialist. But still, you need to know about blockchain, about IT in common, about smart contracts, about overall trends. Need to know what are the most important. Actually, for people who invest bigger sums, I suggest to use professional analytic advices. There are some good services online (free), also you can pay for the analysis.