It is 100% risky to Invest on new cryptocurrency, though they are very volatile and have alot of fall and rise in the cryptocurency world, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH DYOR before investing and understand the risk that are Involved, learn more about the communities, developers and teams.
Many people have done research and analysis on new projects before investing, but still experience losses because as you said investing in new coins or tokens is very high risk. If the project is successful we will get big profits, but if the project fails we will also experience big losses. i would not bet my money on new projects, i would prefer altcoins.
It is very true, every investment will always carry risks, and that is something that we must be clear about, what I think is that when we are going to make an investment, things can be very decisive so that they can produce new results, I In altcoins you can be very lucky and win, but you can also lose, the clear example of this is LUNA, we will always be willing to do things better when we have conviction and have done our research, but this It is not something that is definitive, we have to be much more emphatic and look for a way to have more security , the investment that I see that does not have many risks is Bitcoin, because I know that it will go up in price, the rest of the coins may not be They are so confident, but even so, if Bitcoin does well, it is very likely that things will turn out well for altcoins.