When it comes to the stock market, sometimes it’s better to put your eggs in a few baskets and watch those baskets very closely. If you own too many stocks, you’re unlikely to know any of them very well. As a result, if the market turns, you’ll probably react slowly to the changing conditions.

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Ask any financial advisor, and he or she will tell you that a key to preserving and growing wealth is finding the right asset allocation. Holding a diversified portfolio provides protection against the unexpected.

In times of serious economic uncertainty, the move to hard assets is even more pronounced. When investors see central banks desperately printing more money to generate economic growth, they understand that the value of the currency will fall. Moving some assets into commodities with tangible value is an effective way to reduce currency risk. "The best diamonds have become extraordinarily valuable," Geoffrey Munn, managing director of the London-based jeweler Wartski, said in an interview with Bloomberg. "There’s a sense at the moment that money is like sand running through fingers and there’s a scramble to buy jewels as a hedge."

Exposure to a particular cryptocurrency is primarily dependent on your risk appetite. This can be defined simply as, your tolerance towards taking risk. Using traditional investment markets as an example, if your tolerance towards risk is neutral, then a typical investment portfolio would be 50% equities and 50% bonds. Equities are known to be riskier than bonds, but also offer higher returns as a result. Conversely, bonds tend to be a safer asset than stocks, but offer a lower return over time as a result. Combined together, a balanced portfolio is produced, not too much risk, but also not too safe.

If we apply this to cryptocurrency, we can draw some parallels between the traditional markets and the cryptocurrency market. One would typically regard Bitcoin as being less risky than an unknown altcoin. From this, we can then tailor our level of exposure to suit our risk appetite. For example, a very risky portfolio might be 80% in small-cap cryptocurrency and 20% in Bitcoin. Using the information we have gathered so far, we can now construct our own long-term portfolio.