I'm moving more and more of my play money into my core holdings lately! The more I think and speculate, the more I start to believe that 2018 will be a great altcoin year. So I'm tempted to just HODL them all, and if I put in new money just get BTC with the new money instead.
The theory of 'this should go up more than Bitcoin does' still applies to 90% of all the altcoins out there after all. And if I felt like Bitcoin "can't keep going up forever" at the beginning of this year, it counts doubly so now that it's up way more than back then.
Besides.. the longer I am in crypto, the less I actually trade and instead just HODL. 9 out of 10 times it's just more rewarding if you're patient enough.
Nowadays when I see a flavour of the month coin, I invest maybe $50-100 at most and play around with that and try to flip it back into my core holdings.
I recognise your thinking :-)
For the most part I HODL and after some crazy weeks I put a lot of profits from the Play Money into the Core coins. I also did some profit taking though. In the coming days I will probably write something about that.
Good luck with the flavour of the month coins! Any coin in particular that caught your eye for January?
Not for January, but I did find one for February that is very very promising, go check it out!!
It may be the first ICO ever that I will invest in!
edit: may invest more than 'flavor of the month' amounts too