The number one question I am asked is ‘what crypto should I buy?’ This is a great question but the answer is different from person to person. There are many factors to consider like the longevity of the trade, risk aversion, and strategy of the trade. When I am ready to make a trade, my main goal is not to outperform USD, but to outperform Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). If my trade won’t do that, then what is the point buying anything else?

With this article, my goal is to reveal my 6 picks for going into 2018 and what the long and short term prospects are for the coin. Another factor for coins making it on this list is they need to be close to having a workable and usable project. This isn’t a list of top 6 ICO’s or coins that will pay off by 2019 but of projects ready in 2018. As a disclaimer, I am heavily invested in each of these coins. My strategy for all of the following altcoins is long term gains and not short term flips.

#1 Ethereum

I know, big shock here. Ethereum is the grand-daddy of the altcoins. Why is it my number 1 pick, because 2017 was nothing compared to what is in store for 2018. The last few weeks of 2017 saw the first major dapp on Ethereum called cryptokitties. While it wasn’t what people had hoped for the first breakout dapp, it is the first of many coming down the line. Edgeless was just licensed for the first Ethereum based casino. FunFair, Auger, EtherRisc, and BAT are also getting ready to launch their dapps in 2018. In fact there are literally thousands of dapps coming in 2018. Remember all those ICO’s you invested in this passed summer? Most of those are creating dapps using Ethereum smart contracts. Fibonacci even shows Ethereum reaching $3,500 USD by the end of 2018, a 500% increase in price.

Short term, Ethereum may give up some of its recent gains but long term is all growth.

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#2 SUMOkoin

Like AEON, SUMO is a fork of Monero. SUMO has set out from the begining to implement Ring Confidential Transactions (RingCT) setting minimum transaction mixins to 12 that would make it high resistance to blockchain analysis attacks. Sumokoin is one of a few rare cryptocurrencies with true fungibility — the feature makes digital currency act like physical cash i.e. no other people can find where the money comes from and how many have been transferred. They already have a GUI wallet, litewallet, sub-addresses among other things that make this coin ready to go. The devs have done an excellent job delivering everything on time too.

Look for further inclusion on exchanges for price spikes and official iOS/Android wallets. SUMO is POW and can easily be mined with a GPU using easyminer. Short and long term outlook is great.

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#3 PIVX

A DASH fork, PIV has risen rather quickly to prominence. Recently the dev team added the inclusion of Zerocoin making a more private zPIV coin. PIVX also provides instant transactions through the SwiftTX implementation. The community is governing the future for this currency, rather than leaving it up to just the developers. The coin is mineable through staking so many of the coins are locked up in wallets and masternodes.

PIVX will have both long term and short term price increases. Currently it is the same price that DASH was last year so any height is possible for PIVX.

Buy at: https://bittrex.com

#4 SONM

With its alpha release at the end of 2017, SONM has gone from a ICO to crypto gold in less than a year. SONM sets out to pool together users cpu’s to create a virtual super computer that institutions, companies and other users can lease out. While it will compete with XEL, Golem, and IEXEC for market share, SONM is poised to overtake Golem in 2018 on the super computer stage. Not only does SONM have a great team over developers behind it (so does Golem) but they also have a wider range of uses and applications at launch.

SONM already has SaaS (Software as a Service) support, site hosting, game servers, nodejs and many other applications ready.

SONM looks good both short and long term.

Buy at: https://www.kucoin.com/#/?r=E4BS5-

#5 NULS

NULS is a customizable blockchain that will allow other companies to plugin a module and essentially create their own blockchain or sidechain on top of NULS. The project goes to Testnet in March 2018.

The NULS coin is already picking up steam as word spreads about the project. Both a good investment for short and long term investors.

Buy at: https://www.kucoin.com/#/?r=E4BS5-

#6 CARDANO

Cardano is developing a smart contract platform which seeks to deliver more advanced features than any protocol previously developed. It is the first blockchain platform to evolve out of a scientific philosophy and a research-first driven approach. The development team consists of a large global collective of expert engineers and researchers. The project is still in the early stages but rapidly moving forward with wallets and dPOS on the near horizon.

Short term most likely a pullback from the recent gains. Currently the ADA coin is situated in the top 10 coins by market cap which it is too early for these levels. This goes to show the level of support and community anticipation behind the project from the early stages but still driven by a bit of hype at this early stage.

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Coins not making the list but deserve honorable mentions are WTC, REQ, EDG, RDN, AION, KNC

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