BTC or ETH - Which to buy?

Almost all top tier crypto currencies have been doing really well this year. BTC is up over 50% and ETH is up over 900%. Obviously, with these kinds of gains, there should be some sort of retracement in the near future, but both coins have a long way to go in the long run.

In fact, if you bought $100 worth of BTC in 2011 and just held on to it, it would be worth almost half a million dollars now. Here's an article exploring the ups and downs in that time period:

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/123015/if-you-had-purchased-100-bitcoins-2011.asp

ETH on the other hand has been pretty flat for a while and only recently has broken out. I believe ETH actually has a better return rate than BTC for the near future. Here's an article on ETH's performance in 2017:

http://www.coindesk.com/5-fast-facts-ether-ethereum-blockchain-token-up-900-percent/

So, if you had $1000 to invest right now, which should you buy? First of all I think we need to put aside the retracement part of the equation. It is hard to time these coins. All I can say is I expect a retracement and if I were sitting on some un-invested cash right now, I would wait for either a few months to go by at this current price. or that retracement to occur and then invest.

That being said, given the choice of BTC vs ETH, I would put it in ETH especially if there is a significant retracement in ETH. As recently as December of 2016 you could buy ETH for about $6.00 per coin. As of today, on Poloniex it is going for $82.65 per coin. So, if ETH were to retrace to the $30-$40 range, I would buy as much as I could. There's no reason ETH can't follow the same type of growth we've seen with BTC. Yes BTC is accepted in many more places than ETH and ETH may never overtake BTC, but ETH is really an improvement of BTC. ETH brings a lot to the table and therefore there is always the possibility that ETH ends up being the currency of choice down the road.

So who's to say ETH won't be at $2500 or more per coin in the next few years. I wouldn't bet against that. Does this have you thinking "I wish I had bought ETH in December", well join the club. But take a look at Monero. If Zcash and Dash can be hovering around $100 per coin, there is no reason Monero shouldn't be as well. Monero might be a steal right now at about $20 per coin. Only time will tell.

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