I'm new to this. I started reading a little on it last year, finally invested $8,000 a few weeks ago. mainly in btc, with only 1300 in ether.
It def was a bit of a drag missing the bubble/wave and buying a bit higher than i could have just 4 weeks ago but i think in the LONG run we're all gonna do very very well from btc and ether.

I also believe that you're going to see a tumble leading up to 8/1/17: Fork day.
Uncertainty is never good.
I'm personally pulling my btc offline when the fork happens and if it does indeed drop to 1500/coin i will buy one more and leave that one online.
I think the 5 year outlook is still gonna kick ass.