Investing on Presale or coin already in the crypto market?

[Gposas]

As an investor, would you like to invest on presale or rather invest on coins already in the crypto market?
We see presale as a way New Projects use in raising funds to develop their project and have enough funds at listing on Crypto exchanges.
Presale is a very good way of making profits for investors because they are likely to purchase the token at lower price, always lesser than listing price, and when the token is listed successfully... it's a mega profit making, but we see different projects sometimes are unable to meet up hardcap or even softcap at presale and making listing impossible. Investors are likely to run on loss because they don't possibly refund them when project isn't successful.
On the other hand, investment on tokens already listed on exchanges are likely to bring profit to investors but it takes a long time, even more longer when market is going down.
I'll like to hear from y'all. What's your take, Investing on Presale or on coin already listed on exchanges?

[Crwth]

I think there are different advantages that new coins and already listed coins offer but it’s important to know that there is always risk when it comes to investing.

It would be dependent on what would be my risk Appetite if I am riskier, I would go with the presale and hope that it would reach a higher price and then maybe sell it for profit. If I like, I would in the listed coin already in a respected and verified exchange.

That would be my take on it.

[Charles-Tim]

Presale is very risky. Some presale are scam. Some are bump and dump. There are many that are not even pump and dump but only list and start dump as they will not increase in price at all. Some can dump as low as 20 times of the listing price.

You can invest in altcoins and not see the return on interest that you wished for. You can see them all like filecoin, BCH, ripple and many of them that are old already that did not pump much this time. People focus on new projects which are also very risky.

Invest the amount of money that you can afford to lose on both.

[armanda90]

During pre sale become most popular and hype, many coins potential earn much profitable more above 100% to 500% after listing on the market. Its worth much profitable when investing in pre sale than invest with coins already listed on the exchange market. But almost one year ago, most of pre sale are scam with not trusted owner after their project pre sale sold out then run away make their coins become scam without listing yet on the market.
Looking how many pre sale project easily become scam, right now better invest with coins already on the market than joining with pre sale have long term period before listing on the market and worth it around x2 profitable earn.

[EluguHcman]

Investors actually Invest their funds in clear opportunities proving potential prudent of making profits
So, I myself prefer to invest on already listed and feasible coins but having profiting on the basis, Investing on future coin is assumed to be gambling or trying a luck which I would probably afford to invest on but on an affordable amount literally Incase of lost.

So as there is no harm in trying, investing of presale coin can not be undermined but though thorough research before Investing should not be underrated.

[0t3p0t]

As what other comments has stated presale is very risky and I personally haven't tried it ever since I was on crypto industry because I don,'t have enough capital to accumulate some coins then it was too risky for me as it was like a gambling since there is no assurance we will make any profit from it unless successful.

[Jaephoenix]

Investing in presales is riskier than risky. Why? Because the project can either fo up or down. The last presale I took part in was the Lisao presale on pancakeswap. It was a success even though I didn't buy much during that presale phase since I didn’t lock up much of the Cake on the IDO and I don't have the predesigned NFT needed to  boost my presale allocation

[milewilda]

As an investor, would you like to invest on presale or rather invest on coins already in the crypto market?
We see presale as a way New Projects use in raising funds to develop their project and have enough funds at listing on Crypto exchanges.
Presale is a very good way of making profits for investors because they are likely to purchase the token at lower price, always lesser than listing price, and when the token is listed successfully... it's a mega profit making, but we see different projects sometimes are unable to meet up hardcap or even softcap at presale and making listing impossible. Investors are likely to run on loss because they don't possibly refund them when project isn't successful.
On the other hand, investment on tokens already listed on exchanges are likely to bring profit to investors but it takes a long time, even more longer when market is going down.
I'll like to hear from y'all. What's your take, Investing on Presale or on coin already listed on exchanges?

This would really be that situational since i do have bad experience with presales specially on Pinksale and also with that DOP project recently which it did end up on -80% from presale price.
Wayback into those previous cycles which the presales on which i have joined did really turn up to be profitable. Somehow it would really be situational because there are project which are really that worth to invest into. This is why presale investment woudl really be somewhat that risky but if  you could be able to bare up with the risks or could be able to handle
then it would be your own choice.

[yhiaali3]

In my experience, investing in coins already listed on exchanges is better than investing in pre-sale, because I invested in more than one coin in pre-sale and did not get good results.

I saw a lot of newly listed currencies experiencing a huge dump because those who bought in the pre-sale or who received a free airdrop will sell their coins immediately after the listing and this will cause a huge dump on the price.

Therefore, I prefer to list first and wait for the price to stabilize and then buy. Of course, in some few successful projects, the listing price can be much higher than the pre-sale price, and here investors get a large profit, but from my experience, this is only a few cases.

[hugeblack]

Pre-selling was an old strategy for making profits, but with the large number of cryptocurrency projects and the lack of guarantee of achieving any result or return, it is better not to invest in any project unless you really believe that the developing team may achieve value.
Some projects make a compromise solution, which is to launch a Bounty with the project’s tokens, as it contributes to promoting the project in exchange for obtaining some tokens, and this may be a good solution for some.

[bayu7adi]

Pre-sale investment certainly has the potential for high profits, but you also need to know that the risks are also greater... your parable is the best version, so the worst version is that when the pre-sale period is over, events that are beyond our expectations also sometimes arise... such as developers running away with the money they get, presale moments not getting enough money, regulatory problems, listing problems on the stock exchange and many more... when they are still babies, or you could even say they are still in the fetus (I make an analogy for tokens that are currently on presale )

Personally, I prefer to invest in coins that are more common, meaning I choose when the coin is already listed on the exchange.

[snowpega]

Well, To be very honest, it is now a kinda risky investment these days as I have seen projects those who offer their token in pre-listing at lower prices and when they get listed on any exchange users/investors get scammed by some of these projects as the listing price is way lower than the price in pre-sale they offered.  Well, as far as I remember one of those project launched in the market named as Blast and many of the people bought their tokens in the pre-sale as this project had great hype in the community.

Investors bought their lower offered price and when the time of listing came then they realized they made the mistake of buying these tokens in pre-sale. So, in case, you are the one who believes in buying any project tokens in pre-sale, then buy with only those amounts you can bear in the form of loss, risk management is a very important part of the crypto industry. DYOR!

[Gposas]

Presale is very risky. Some presale are scam. Some are bump and dump. There are many that are not even pump and dump but only list and start dump as they will not increase in price at all. Some can dump as low as 20 times of the listing price.

You can invest in altcoins and not see the return on interest that you wished for. You can see them all like filecoin, BCH, ripple and many of them that are old already that did not pump much this time. People focus on new projects which are also very risky.

Invest the amount of money that you can afford to lose on both.

I 100% agree with you, you see most of all these pump and dump projects, after a while they end up being delisted from exchanges and those that invest on it are likely to run a huge loss because the token becomes unknown in the market. And I've also witnessed coins that will just start dumping after listing.
Uve just said it all, some altcoins also already in the crypto market do not likely pump much over time, no matter how bullish the market tends to be.
The very good advice you gave is "invest the money you can afford to lose"
Thanks alot.

[electronicash]

Presale is very risky. Some presale are scam. Some are bump and dump. There are many that are not even pump and dump but only list and start dump as they will not increase in price at all. Some can dump as low as 20 times of the listing price.

You can invest in altcoins and not see the return on interest that you wished for. You can see them all like filecoin, BCH, ripple and many of them that are old already that did not pump much this time. People focus on new projects which are also very risky.

Invest the amount of money that you can afford to lose on both.

I 100% agree with you, you see most of all these pump and dump projects, after a while they end up being delisted from exchanges and those that invest on it are likely to run a huge loss because the token becomes unknown in the market. And I've also witnessed coins that will just start dumping after listing.
Uve just said it all, some altcoins also already in the crypto market do not likely pump much over time, no matter how bullish the market tends to be.
The very good advice you gave is "invest the money you can afford to lose"
Thanks alot.

the timing is important these days. there certainly a better time to invest and better time to just watch the market.

investors during the ICO years have learned their lessons already and so are those who invest in tokens that are listed. what i think they are doing these days are just waiting for the bear market to be over  before buying some tokens. the tokens that have been listed for years are the safer to invest than those that are recently just listed in the market. i couldn't remember where i read this tip but most probably in some forum  posts as well.

[pakhitheboss]

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I consider presale as a highly risky investment opportunity and in the past when ICOs were very common I had invested in a few. I did not get as much profit as I had expected but it was a decent amount that I made after holding the coins for a year. In today's time, it is better to invest in already listed coins than take a big risk. That is my point of view as one of the small-time investors of the past.