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You have to look at risk vs reward.

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/stellar/
Stellar coin already has a market cap of almost 16 million.
There are only 15 cryptocurrencies with a higher market cap than Stellar coin.
For your investment in Stellar coin to double its market cap would put in the top 10 for all cryptocurrencies.

There are newer cryptocurrencies out there with better teams that have already gained more in less time.
You should also compare the progress with coins that could be considered competition to gauge long/short term growth.

There is also a huge available supply which means people are going to be more readily dumping whenever demand does go up.

All of this does not leave much room for short term grown but it does make it a safer long term investment.

If you look at cga its market cap is less than 100 thousand and it has the advantage of being listed on the largest exchange.
With there finally being new active development it's market cap could easily x5 or x10 given the trends you will see in every other coin listed on poloniex.
For anyone who does not understand why the market cap is what you look at:

1 million market cap -> 2 million market cap
This would double the value of your coins

Coins with lower market caps have much higher potential for rapid grown for obvious reasons.