I also am waiting to catch more Stratis and have already place my orders at lower. Altcoins are not going nowhere but it is game of fear and in the end everything will look better. My point on the current situation is this when they can't take the market up they simply dip it at some level and then take it up. All the profits come from these movements.
True dat. Exactamundo.
Profits simply has to come from somewhere. They are not generated out of thin air. There's no free lunch. Usually it's the weak hands which provide.
In economics and game theory, there are couple of main principles why this works the way it does.
First one is 'people respond to incentives' and another one is 'losing hurts at least twice as much compared to good feeling of winning'
If you don't believe the latter one, just imagine playing 'Double or Quiz'
"Next question is the 100 000$ one. Do you want to double or Quiz?" You choose to double - and you fail.
How would that make you feel? You had 50 grands, and now you've lost it. But wait a minute...you came to that show with nothing and you're leaving that show with most of it still intact. You haven't actually lost anything! But you still feel absolutely miserable and devastated!
That's how losing feels like - and that's why people try to avoid it. It's much worse than winning is good.
So people invest, because there's an incentive - profit without actual work. Just wait and millions are calling your name - what could be better?
But when the markets fall, it hurts - and only way to avoid hurting even more, is to sell while there's still something to save.
And by selling, and avoiding more pain, they give away the money to those who patiently wait.
On the other hand, I'm drunk and tired, so what do I know? 
