At this point in the game with Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash collectively being worth over $3,700 USD and a combined market cap of above $61 Billion according to www.coinmarketcap.com, it is high time for there to be some "trickle down" appreciation of LTC and ETC. (You will notice that I left out ETH from this equation, more on that later)
Both LTC and ETC have theoretical coin caps and have both been immutable ledgers. (LTC has a cap of 84 million coins, and ETC has a theoretical cap of around 230 million as indicated by the devs) I believe this is a fundamental aspect to price appreciation (i.e. a cryptocurrency being a legitimate store of value). Additionally, both of these have historical track records similar to BTC as well as a an active dev team. Finally, both are relatively decentralized (not as much as BTC but over time they are set up to be just as distributed)
ETH is not a candidate for the "trickle down" effect in my opinion because it is not a store of value but rather an access token with potentially unlimited token issuance. The price may appreciate in the short term but only because it is needed for a pending ICO or for short term speculation. If/when ETH moves to proof of stake, the inflation rate will theoretically come way down but at this time we don't have any clue what that system would look like.
I'm not specifically recommending anyone buy any of these tokens, but I am advising you to watch them carefully to see if they may be worth a buy here at these levels. I think LTC has room to run to 10 Billion market cap in the medium term and the same goes for ETC. If I'm right that would represent gains of about 4x for LTC and more than 6x for ETC from current levels.
