Hello rbreauxfl,
I am not a financial advisor (nor any advisor really ;) ), but I would suggest you to look into technology when deciding, not just picking random pump and dump coins. I believe (and hope) that in 2018 market will consolidate and people will start making decisions based on the use of technology. As for now for long term (more than a year) my picks would be:
Bitcoin (institucional money is and will be floating in 2018, lightning network will be introduced).
Ethereum (in long term should go to the moon as most of new decentralized systems are being built on top of it so ETH is used and will be a lot).
Monero (you want to have privacy coin in your portfolio in case banks will hit hard with regulations - which may happen in 2018).
Litecoin (fast and being used as an alternative to BTC while it has scalability issues. Charlie Lee is a rock star).
Cardano (web 3.0 although it is sitting hight already so I would not buy it now).
Bread (BRD) (recently became available and has tons of potential for growth, they are providing easy to use and secure mobile wallet and have unique tech and great team behind it).
If you are interested in my portfolio (and I am holding for the next 1-2 years):
BTC 45%, ETH 16%, Monero 5.8%, LTC 5%, Bread 5%, POWR 3.5%, Cardano 3.3%, Golem 1.7%, LAToken 1.5% (and 13% of other small coins).
Good luck in this wild wild west!
:)
Wow thanks so much i never heard of the last two ill def do my homework. Thanks for your advice its very exciting!