ALT coin short list for end of 2017 into 2018

I'm not giving my precise reasons for everything in this list - all I can tell you is that it's from exhaustive research and insight. Use it as a starting point to do your own research.

ADA - Cardano
Price has moved quite a distance in the last few days. Depending on what happens today with the CME BTC Futures, a price entry of $0.014 would be ideal... seems like pie in the sky with a current USD price of $0.49 cents.

ZRX - 0x - https://0xproject.com/

XVG - Verge - https://vergecurrency.com/

PHR - Phore - https://vergecurrency.com/
Outstanding potential for masternode earnings - https://masternodes.online/currencies/PHR/

SAFEX - SafeExchangeCoin
Dealt a harsh blow from Bittrex this past week, SAFEX rallied and then was put into complete limbo as Cryptopia suspended trading while it ponders delisting for SAFEX. I'm confident that Cryptopia will not delist SAFEX as that could prove to be a foolish business decision. Also SAFEX and Verge were mentioned by John Mcafee on numerous occasions (most recent 12/16/17).

BCH - Bitcoin Cash
Regardless of your stance, the fact remains that Jihan https://twitter.com/jihanwu has a lot of sway when it comes to the crypto-universe. Bitmain is the dominant mining producer for SHA-256 mining. The Antminer L3+ has gone up about $600 to just over $2000 for March 2018 delivery. Bitmain currently accepting only BCH as a payment method.
I suspect this wallet is associated with Mr. Wu or Bitmain: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin%20cash/address/19hZx234vNtLazfx5J2bxHsiWEmeYE8a7k

XRP - Ripple
Ripple is no ones 'favorite' coin, but again, we cannot ignore that its going to be used by big banks and the momentum will not stop once it gets rolling. I've seen reasonable price predictions of $15/xrp w/in a few
months.

Of course - NEO

STEEM
Last, but not least... Never underestimate where this can end up. The original and best coin to HODL! Just like Bitcoin, the adoption of Steemit is still in it's infancy. I just did a test Powerdown cycle as I had never done it before... good to know it works well just in case you need some fast cash. Most importantly, it's a brilliant way of actually saving in crypto as 7 days is long enough that you might change your mind whether or not to liquidate.

AVOID - Monero is older tech at this point - still a great coin for anon uses etc, but there are plenty of new competitors like Zencash, Verge and others. I'd be really surprised if XMR was ever added to a place like Coinbase.

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Be ready for a significant BTC/USD pullback from now until Jan. 1 2018.
You'll notice most of these coins have low market caps (minus BCH, NEO and XRP) as well as low per coin prices.
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Do your own research as I'm not a financial adviser nor is this financial investing advice. Use as a catalyst to do your own due diligence.