How should I invest $10,000 in crypto-currency? I have $10,000 which I have decided to invest in crypto-currency.

How should I go about investing this money for maximum profit? E.g. should I invest in a mining setup? Trade the currency? A combination of both?

A few investment parameters and some background on myself is provided below:


Risk sensitivity would be very high. Although I wouldn't want to be stupid with how I go about investing the money either.
I am a technically minded person (I am a mechanical and software engineer and I develop progressive web applications for a job and build computer hardware systems as a hobby).
I would be okay with constructing and maintaining rigs. Although I don't know what coins to mine but I have a basic idea on how to mine them using either ASIC hardware or graphics cards with off the shelf software. 
I wouldn't say I have an investment style. I have never really invested in anything before beside putting my money in high interest bank accounts.
I'm going to assume Bitcoin since that is by far the most common cryptocurrency by mindshare for people who are new to the space.

Since you have $10k to invest, you could buy around 5 to 7 bitcoin mining rigs with a capacity of 13 to 16 tera-hashes per second each.  Investing in these mining rigs will give you about 1 year of mining time before the rigs cost more money to run than they can make.  You could make approximately $10,000 to $30,000 profit during that time assuming you have cheap electricity, and buy 5 x 15 TH/sec bitminers.  This path requires far more technical knowledge than a simple purchase of  bitcoin.  To get 5 mining rigs for $10k, you'll need to buy direct from a manufacturer.  Bitcoin mining rig manufacturers typically require a wait of 3 or 4 months until delivery.

If you buy bitcoin, you might lose the entire investment if bitcoin goes to zero; on the other hand you might make 10 times your investment if bitcoin repeats the past 12 months of performance.  If you stay invested for a longer timeframe that risk/return is extended.

There is no simple answer to your question since it depends on your technical knowledge, risk appetite, and timeline.