In order to make the most of this bull run, it's important for all of us to carefully position ourselves by conducting thorough research on promising coins.
I personally rely on a few platforms for my research:
- cryptogugu.com
- dexscreener.com
- dextools.io
How reliable are those platforms?, I think you should be very careful on the places you conduct your research about the best coins to invest because even if they would predict there is no way they would always get it right so perhaps sometimes someone can even ventures into the wrong investment if they are not careful, however it will be more better choosing the coin by yourself instead of relying on those ones, though I would advise you that if you are still new on crypto investment to avoid any risk you should just focus on Bitcoin investment because is much more safer and more reliable than any other coins out there.
The best way to be sure that a coin is not a scam is when you have done your investigation personally without relying on platforms for certainty. Sometimes most of those platforms are paid to market and advertise (through hype and influence on social media) a coin and they get well paid for doing so or allocated a certain amount of equity if the scam plans work out perfectly.
I always believe that opinions and suggestions can be given by a friend, colleague, or platforms of top trending coins or coins that would do well when the bull runs but the conviction and capital for investing in that coin depend on the investor and if he is not satisfied with their opinions then proper analysis and research is expected. At the end of the day, we will take responsibility of our actions.