Well, I can't say that I completely disagree to what you said. The trend shows that altcoins are also following the same trend as bitcoin. When bitcoin goes down, majority of the alts go down as well. But only the majority of alts, not all. In real investment world, we have concept of "contra fund" which literally means "Contradictory fund". This particular fund is created to make profit in the falling market by buying those stocks/assets who usually goes up when the market is red. If you have tracked the stock market closely, you will see that when a stock market enters red zone, Gold and Silver prices goes up because investors then try to hedge their position by buying these precious metals. This is the same technique used by the contra funds.

I have been tracking the crypto market since a long time now and I have seen few such coins do exist in the market. When the crypto market enters red zone, these coins goes up. However, I am not getting a very clear picture because of the number of altcoins we have but I am trying to get to a definite point.

I encourage the OP and you to track for the same and probably we will be able to point out some definite alts which is showing such kind of behavior. I am not able to devote much time to these because of my jobs and other commitments, but if we can find these, it can be proved as a very nice hedging for us.

But whatever you said about diversification, I too agree that one should not invest in coins only to safeguard their positions. Real world investment like Gold, Bonds, bank deposits are good tools to have as an investor which can support us in difficult times.

I remember that there were only three altcoins that had a positive growth last collapse.
For me these three coins were totally new, so I assume their growth was due to their coin being added on a popular exchange.
It could have a different reason but it's a reason why a lot of altcoins suddenly make big growths.
But to make my point, 3 out 100 coins is just a gamble.

That's true, once you invested all your bitcoin in one source that is more risky than to those who invested their bitcoin in different sources. Once your invested will go down, all your investment will also drop.

Indeed, it is not reasonable to invest all your money in one token.
The people who make money in the cryptocurrency market are hold it for a long time, invest all your money in one token is hard to hold it for a long time, because you're going to focus on the change in the price of the token.

I definitely agree, that is one of the rules of thumb in investment. Don't put everything you have in one basket, this can mitigate the risks you are taking. Spread your investments.

you must have your strategy of your portfolio. this is my strategy .


5% max invest altcoin (if you invest altcoin like this 5% on xrp, 5% on dash 5% on eth 5% on etc, 5% on BTS, 5% nxt, 5% xlm, 5% Btg)
25% on btc
25% on fiat currency

so if you want invest like eth,xrp,dash,etc you must use 5% of your capital. do not invest more than 5% of your capital.

why btc dont swith to altcoin? if at any time there is a very sharp rise of btc. then the BTC ALTCOIN payment will decrease very sharply. here is the right time to buy altcoin from the rest of btc you have ..

why i have 25% fiat currency.  if the btc price drops badly so market will dump everything. this is perfect timing to buy btc or altcoin. usually btc drop for 1-6 days.

I agree, that way if an exchange gets hacked it doesn't hurt too bad!

Yeah, trust is also one of the thing you must to do in investment. But the thing is for you to have a stable thing to have a stable  i Ageneto get your needs and want that can be used to have a profit for yout famity.

I also agree with you bro. I ooften spend my Bitcoin in different investment to ensure that if I lose Bitcoin in 1 source, I still have chances to get it from the others source. If I invest all my Bitcoin in 1 place, I am afraid that if this place collapes, I will lose all my Bitcoin

I for example, I always use one project only. He is already tested for me. Therefore I consider that needs to be anymore nowhere inlaid