what makes an ICO investment risky?

[DeKingCrypto]

I think the only thing that makes ICO risky is when the ICI turns scam.

[Yahud]

What makes ICO risky is the project quality of the coin. the risk is when you have participated and devoted wealth, thoughts and energy, but the results are not balanced, even worse is a scam. that is very feared

[justsimpleram]

This year 2018 ICO is very risky to invest in, because many of the project that have ICO are scam project or have a dump coins/tokens when they get listed.  And some of the team of the project are not doing great in the project they just left the project in the air after the ICO sale end.

[cora]

What makes ICO funding unstable is ourselves in choosing tasks at the ICO. So we must be clever in making a good choice of tasks at ICO by getting to know them properly and taking note of them without a doubt. in case you trust the challenge is right and not scam or different, then you definately have the proper to select it and avoid huge risks like the scam venture.

[Judybrown]

ICO investments can be risky if the investor invests in a project that turns out to be scam or the price falls so low more than the ICO price. 

[Speaker]

Investing in cryptocurrency is a huge risk.It does not matter that it is an ICO or buying coins on the exchange.Be prepared to lose all your money...especially now.

[Baroksz]

The risk that I fear is the absence of regulations that are truly guaranteed by the government or the Central Bank in the world. This causes the risk to be very high if there are no Escrow facilities or third-party investment fund holders. If the investment fund holder is the developer himself, it is almost certain that the ICO is an ICO Scam. so we need to avoid such things

[HanZo04]

In my opinion there are two risks that can adversely affect investors, namely ICO scam and ICO which cannot increase public trust. ICO scams are very often encountered today, there are many people who are not responsible and only make ICO a way to collect more money for personal interests and usually they use fake teams. and ICO which cannot increase public trust is if ICO coins that have been registered are exchanged and they cannot increase the price and what happens is that there is no order on the coin so that the price of the coin will fall to several times the ICO price.

[PRIBO247]

Everything in life is a risk. It is either minimal or high risk. For me, ICO falls in the category of minimal risk when you do your home work on the project well.

[lopart]

However, long term, the outcome can be grim, and many people end up losing the money they initially invested. There are many reasons why most ICOs fail. When investing in an ICO, people must exercise due diligence and make sure they know the risk they are taking.

[waniowski]

As long as crypto industry is not regulated all investments will be risky. What about creating guarantee fund similar to existing in banking. When you put your money in bank you are sure that if bank goes bankrupt you'll your money back (to a certain degree of course).
Imagine that such protection exists in crypto...  awesome

[marcsymons]

In my experiences if they don't give their names in the white paper for any reason then 100% its a scam project because if the investors money will be stolen then there is no way that they can track them but make sure that their names are legit too that it can be easily search in the google.

[Breadwinner]

Every investment comes with risks so as ICO investment. Before investing in an ICO project, you need to carefully examine the project you are participating in and be sure if its really worth investing before going ahead.

[xeroz]

ICO investments will be very risky if we don't apply right ways in choosing the ICO coins. We need good researches to find trusted coins for our investment. Commonly, ICO coins are suitable for long term investment right now. They need a lot of time to reach proper prices on market.         

[kent47400]

All in cryptocurrency have risks but the level of risk is different.
For example, if you invest in building a hospital building, there must be a risk when the hospital experiences a fire and is the same as the ICO.