Diversification Case Study - $100 on each of top 100 a year ago

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Diversification Case Study - $100 on each of top 100 a year ago
### Things to Note
>The data is sourced from Coinmarketcap.com using historical snapshots from 7/3/2016 and 7/2/2017.
 >Qora was by far the best bet, #89 on the 7/3/2016 rankings and that $100 each would now be worth $436,418.
>Past performance is not a guarantee or prediction of future performance. 
>The over total is $546,237, though over 80% of that is Qora gains alone ($463,418). 
>The volume for Qora is 0.08 BTC ($206) in the past 24 hours, so even if you owned that amount of Qora, you'd only have one option to offload it (OpenLedger). 
>There were 6 coins that do not have enough volume to establish a current price, were delisted, or have gone away (DAO, SCOT, BILS, RBR, XCR, VOOT). These have been counted as -100% (worth $0), since they are now worthless/nonexistent. 
>Taking into account that there is no reasonable ability to sell Qora at this price at this time and that it is an outlier, I have also given Qora a  -100% (worth $0) for a new total of $109,819, or basically 11x/1100% with the readily available information.

## $100 USD on each of the Top 100 on 7/3/2016 would now be worth:

<table>
<tr><th>Number</th><th>Coin</th><th>Symbol</th><th>$100 is Now Worth</th></tr>
<tr><td>1</td><td>Bitcoin</td><td>BTC</td><td>351.95</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>Ethereum</td><td>ETH</td><td>2246.59</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>Ripple</td><td>XRP</td><td>3786.13</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>Litecoin</td><td>LTC</td><td>855.876</td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td>The DAO</td><td>DAO</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td>NEM</td><td>XEM</td><td>1416.78</td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td>Dash</td><td>DASH</td><td>2319.69</td></tr>
<tr><td>8</td><td>MaidSafeCoin</td><td>MAID</td><td>599.144</td></tr>
<tr><td>9</td><td>DogeCoin</td><td>DOGE</td><td>806.419</td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td>Lisk</td><td>LISK</td><td>743.637</td></tr>
<tr><td>11</td><td>NXT</td><td>NXT</td><td>600.566</td></tr>
<tr><td>12</td><td>Monero</td><td>XMR</td><td>2323.86</td></tr>
<tr><td>13</td><td>DigixDAO</td><td>DGD</td><td>768.594</td></tr>
<tr><td>14</td><td>WAVES</td><td>WAVES</td><td>2055.64</td></tr>
<tr><td>15</td><td>Steem</td><td>STEEM</td><td>746.691</td></tr>
<tr><td>16</td><td>Synereo</td><td>AMP</td><td>589.994</td></tr>
<tr><td>17</td><td>Emercoin</td><td>EMC</td><td>387.377</td></tr>
<tr><td>18</td><td>Siacoin</td><td>SC</td><td>1523.88</td></tr>
<tr><td>19</td><td>Factom</td><td>FCT</td><td>1556.83</td></tr>
<tr><td>20</td><td>BitShares</td><td>BTS</td><td>4484.07</td></tr>
<tr><td>21</td><td>Stellar</td><td>XLM</td><td>1198.15</td></tr>
<tr><td>22</td><td>Peercoin</td><td>PPC</td><td>529.021</td></tr>
<tr><td>23</td><td>Bytecoin</td><td>BCN</td><td>5560.98</td></tr>
<tr><td>24</td><td>Counterparty</td><td>XCP</td><td>454.508</td></tr>
<tr><td>25</td><td>Tether</td><td>USDT</td><td>102</td></tr>
<tr><td>26</td><td>Namecoin</td><td>NMC</td><td>578.586</td></tr>
<tr><td>27</td><td>YBCoin</td><td>YBC</td><td>403.646</td></tr>
<tr><td>28</td><td>Storjcoin X</td><td>SJCX</td><td>589.783</td></tr>
<tr><td>29</td><td>Nautilus Coin</td><td>NAUT</td><td>92.8187</td></tr>
<tr><td>30</td><td>Agoras Tokens</td><td>AGRS</td><td>495.594</td></tr>
<tr><td>31</td><td>Decred</td><td>DCR</td><td>1462.24</td></tr>
<tr><td>32</td><td>VPNcoin</td><td>VPN</td><td>301.834</td></tr>
<tr><td>33</td><td>Syscoin</td><td>SYS</td><td>1800.29</td></tr>
<tr><td>34</td><td>GameCredits</td><td>GAME</td><td>4956.26</td></tr>
<tr><td>35</td><td>FedoraCoin</td><td>TIPS</td><td>62.50</td></tr>
<tr><td>36</td><td>ScotCoin</td><td>SCOT</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>37</td><td>Xaurum</td><td>XAU</td><td>0.05494</td></tr>
<tr><td>38</td><td>SolarCoin</td><td>SLR</td><td>211.193</td></tr>
<tr><td>39</td><td>RubyCoin</td><td>RBY</td><td>408.039</td></tr>
<tr><td>40</td><td>Feathercoin</td><td>FTC</td><td>375.809</td></tr>
<tr><td>41</td><td>Hitcoin</td><td>HTC</td><td>23.7705</td></tr>
<tr><td>42</td><td>Bluecoin</td><td>BLU</td><td>26.4021</td></tr>
<tr><td>43</td><td>Bitcrystals</td><td>BCY</td><td>775.439</td></tr>
<tr><td>44</td><td>Blackcoin</td><td>BLK</td><td>1127.63</td></tr>
<tr><td>45</td><td>BitcoinDark</td><td>BTCD</td><td>3438.17</td></tr>
<tr><td>46</td><td>Digibyte</td><td>DGB</td><td>4407.80</td></tr>
<tr><td>47</td><td>Gridcoin</td><td>GRC</td><td>915.879</td></tr>
<tr><td>48</td><td>Yocoin</td><td>YOC</td><td>6.1329</td></tr>
<tr><td>49</td><td>Earthcoin</td><td>EAC</td><td>1166.18</td></tr>
<tr><td>50</td><td>Voxels</td><td>VOX</td><td>109.79</td></tr>
<tr><td>51</td><td>ShadowCash</td><td>SDC</td><td>259.527</td></tr>
<tr><td>52</td><td>Monacoin</td><td>MONA</td><td>1464.95</td></tr>
<tr><td>53</td><td>Vericoin</td><td>VRC</td><td>712.93</td></tr>
<tr><td>54</td><td>Mintcoin</td><td>MINT</td><td>157.746</td></tr>
<tr><td>55</td><td>Rimbit</td><td>RBT</td><td>9.83366</td></tr>
<tr><td>56</td><td>Vcash</td><td>XVC</td><td>294.096</td></tr>
<tr><td>57</td><td>SuperNET</td><td>UNITY</td><td>1270.33</td></tr>
<tr><td>58</td><td>PrimeCoin</td><td>XPM</td><td>629.374</td></tr>
<tr><td>59</td><td>OMNI</td><td>OMNI</td><td>1791.98</td></tr>
<tr><td>60</td><td>AuroraCoin</td><td>AUR</td><td>284.136</td></tr>
<tr><td>61</td><td>Quark</td><td>QRK</td><td>1316.62</td></tr>
<tr><td>62</td><td>Clams</td><td>CLAM</td><td>630.61</td></tr>
<tr><td>63</td><td>ION</td><td>ION</td><td>331.397</td></tr>
<tr><td>64</td><td>Reddcoin</td><td>RDD</td><td>3446.51</td></tr>
<tr><td>65</td><td>I/Ocoin</td><td>IOC</td><td>1424.84</td></tr>
<tr><td>66</td><td>NovaCoin</td><td>NVC</td><td>1118.97</td></tr>
<tr><td>67</td><td>WorldCoin</td><td>WDC</td><td>1506.27</td></tr>
<tr><td>68</td><td>IX Coin</td><td>IXC</td><td>163.177</td></tr>
<tr><td>69</td><td>Expanse</td><td>EXP</td><td>525.972</td></tr>
<tr><td>70</td><td>Rise</td><td>RISE</td><td>544.89</td></tr>
<tr><td>71</td><td>BoostCoin</td><td>BOST</td><td>524.417</td></tr>
<tr><td>72</td><td>Radium</td><td>RADS</td><td>1495.07</td></tr>
<tr><td>73</td><td>Elcoin</td><td>EL</td><td>17.7651</td></tr>
<tr><td>74</td><td>Gulden</td><td>NLG</td><td>3362.03</td></tr>
<tr><td>75</td><td>Jinn</td><td>JINN</td><td>875.354</td></tr>
<tr><td>76</td><td>Vertcoin</td><td>VDN</td><td>1751.66</td></tr>
<tr><td>77</td><td>DigitalNote</td><td>XDN</td><td>197.345</td></tr>
<tr><td>78</td><td>Bilshares</td><td>BILS</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>79</td><td>StartCoin</td><td>START</td><td>256.112</td></tr>
<tr><td>80</td><td>NavCoin</td><td>NAV</td><td>2720.61</td></tr>
<tr><td>81</td><td>MegaCoin</td><td>MEC</td><td>1272.74</td></tr>
<tr><td>82</td><td>NuShares</td><td>NSR</td><td>60.726</td></tr>
<tr><td>83</td><td>Hempcoin</td><td>HMP</td><td>21.3849</td></tr>
<tr><td>84</td><td>Obits</td><td>OBITS</td><td>2342.86</td></tr>
<tr><td>85</td><td>Dnotes</td><td>NOTE</td><td>1730.04</td></tr>
<tr><td>86</td><td>Diamond</td><td>DMD</td><td>703.62</td></tr>
<tr><td>87</td><td>ZcCoin</td><td>ZCC</td><td>976.814</td></tr>
<tr><td>88</td><td>Infinite coin</td><td>IFC</td><td>2200</td></tr>
<tr><td>89</td><td>Qora</td><td>QORA</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>90</td><td>WildBeastBlock</td><td>WBB</td><td>241.054</td></tr>
<tr><td>91</td><td>UnionCoin</td><td>UNC</td><td>0.06385</td></tr>
<tr><td>92</td><td>Zeitcoin</td><td>ZEIT</td><td>606.667</td></tr>
<tr><td>93</td><td>Curecoin</td><td>CURE</td><td>845.401</td></tr>
<tr><td>94</td><td>Digitalcoin</td><td>DGC</td><td>523.34</td></tr>
<tr><td>95</td><td>Nexus</td><td>NIRO/NXS</td><td>6998.98</td></tr>
<tr><td>96</td><td>Global Currency Reserves</td><td>GCR</td><td>899.861</td></tr>
<tr><td>97</td><td>RibbitRewards</td><td>RBR</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>98</td><td>Crypti</td><td>XCR</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>99</td><td>Unobtanium</td><td>UNO</td><td>1566.54</td></tr>
<tr><td>100</td><td>VootCoin</td><td>VOOT</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Total</td><td></td><td></td><td>$109,819</td></tr>
</table>

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## Summary
Many people have made better returns over the past year and in crypto, a year is an extremely long time.  I generally consider my long term holds to be 2-6 months, midterm 2-8weeks, and short term to be up to 2 weeks, so a year is a particularly long time from my perspective. 1100% is profitable but it's on par with what many people expect in a quarter of that time period. I am impressed with Nexus (NXS) over the course of the year. 

More about my trading strategies here:
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@ashr/4-strategies-i-use-for-a-stronger-cryptocurrency-portfolio

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