As the price drops to panic inducing low prices I will share a few stories for story time.
I finally got my account unlocked on WEX after supplying details of every transaction I ever had with them, signing statements from the addresses of the receive addresses for all of my withdrawals, screen shots of receiving those transactions and sending the IP address of every time I logged into the system.
Congratulations. Seems like a good sign. Frequently, there are alternative ways to verify your identity.
My account was locked out but I am not able to withdraw my NMC for 2 weeks (I assume this is how long they believe they will still be around, or they need 2 weeks to pilfer the rest of my NMC).
That's a pretty pessimistic assessment. It is pretty standard that when an account is unlocked that it will have limitations placed on its withdrawals, and part of the rationale is that they are taking extra precautions in case they have given access to someone claiming to be you, rather than you. In other words, pretty standard procedure, even though there is likely variation in the security safeguarding procedures from one exchange to the next.
I used to have 21k NMC. I logged in to see 12k NMC and 9k NMCET.
This is the socialized loss issue that took place in August 2017. Everyone got the same haircut accross their various coin holdings.
From the looks of things WEX was allowing people to withdraw NMC (likely because they could just use mine and that's all they had left). I guess their remedy for opening my account was to create a fake NMC token and distribute that as "just as good as NMC". As people quickly ended up dumping the worthless token lowering the price.
It is very doubtful that they are creating any of their policy and procedure around your 21k NMC. There are bigger fish to fry. Of course, they have a run on the bank and liquidation issues that are associated with their current problem, but they are not making broader decisions about your small quantity of coins and your longer standing access issues.
So now I have to wait 2 weeks and watch as the whole thing implodes. But at least I can watch the last of my NMC get pilfered in the meantime.
Even in NMC, I doubt that there is any exact or known price direction. A lot of alts already took a pretty decent beating, but we also know that any of them can get pumped too... but odds are against most of them, especially in a bear or consolidating period... things can change, but no pattern is for sure in either bitcoinlandia nor in cryptolandia more broadly.