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you'll find your feet... buy ice-creams when they're cheap, sell them when it's hot ! best thing to do is research the different coins and find out what's behind the ticker ( XRP) is ripple's ticker BTC, LTC, etc.. if you think, hey that sounds like a great project that is going to change the world.. buy some before everyone else does.. that's the basics covered.

The advanced bit ///

However, there are new ones coming out all the time ! They have CrowdSales to raise capital for the project and they publish a WhitePaper which explains the overview, how it will work, what the rewards are, if there's a profit share, etc.. (usually the money raised is in BTC or ETH) or similar or maybe USD$ ..you can buy into them at the ground floor price just like an IPO of company shares when they list on Stock Exchanges

Thats great advice.... thank you for taking the time to comment..... I love the steemit community. Z