If you want to get big profits, choose new coins, but we both know that with new coins the risk is bigger. But if you want to be safe, choose the top rank coins in CMC, because they have been proven to last until now. There are lots of scams, be careful.
Mate, new coins never guarantees big profits. New coins even may lead to huge losses because they are riskier than old coins. And the top coins on CMC doesn't guarantee safety, just don't choose meme coins among the top coins. Even if the meme coins are a part of the top coins, they have no clear fundamentals. Anyway, most scams come from new altcoins, that's why we must be very careful if we want to invest in new coins.
You are right, caution to invest it needs to be done so as not to get stuck on new altcoins that will eventually just be abandoned and will have no price at all.
Quite often advice like this I find, but some people who place their risk on new altcoins or emerging memecoins,
they are already aware of how risky it is.
It's like when you catch a knife from a height that will risk injuring you, but if you can catch it with the right moment then you will succeed.
Such is how a new altcoin or memecoin that reaches ATH is pretty crazy, even a $1 investment can become hundreds of thousands of dollars in just an instant.