Recently i understood that if a popular altcoin price goes down i should invest there.
I did once, and sold mostly all of my bitcoins and then got a little profit of 0.5%.
Which is not bad, but the risk was high, so i would sell only if see that i need urgent money.
Not always. There's no guarantee that because an altcoin is popular, it will go above the price you bought at. Sure, you can always think that Litecoin is too big too fail, but there's nothing guaranteed, the only thing guaranteed of going up eventually is Bitcoin, the rest is an huge gamble. I would rather focus on investing long term-ish and get out with good projects, like Maidsafe.