Most of you appeared to have assumed
1) That every single alt-coins would continue to be tied to BTC's price movement forever simply because it have been largely the case until now. However, there is a very likely chance that the market share of BTC and ETH will fall, as the currently lesser known cryptos starts to get increased attention. There are already signs of this happening for selected none shitty altcoins.
2) That this stagnant market will continue throughout 2018, however I am speculating that a bull run will return towards Christmas.
There is now an increasing awareness of cryptos throughout the world, and more and more smaller countries are now only just entering (and these new investors will be pretty prone towards FOMO, once the market really starts picking up again). Think of the massive population in Indonesia, India, Thailand, Philipines, Malaysia, where the people do not trust their corrupt government and the handling of their own respective currencies as much.
Where currently where it stands, only a very small % of people in the world have invested in cryptos (and mostly just BTC and maybe ETH, and that is about it -- thinking that all altcoins are "scams", etc. or just couldn't be bothered) -- Still lossa room to grow.
Funds from cashing out of shitcoins that dies off during the bear market has to go somewhere too.
The mainstream media fuds against cryptos could also gradually fade in time, as the real-world value of these selected coins starts to show.
Bottomline is that I may be right, or wrong for the matter. Maybe end of 2018 is too optimistic, perhaps 2019 or even 2020 is more realistic? And of course the cited 100x is an unrealistic hyperbole exaggeration to emphasize the optimism that I have of these coins, but the point remains the same. All that doesn’t matter. I am merely speculating here like everyone one else, given the above reasons - and do watch that video shared before commenting about the crypto projects highlighted here.
You are assuming here too, first off none of those 3 are undervalued, all over valued if anything, including wanchain, none will do 100x in a year I would bet money on this.
The whole reason people trade is to increase BTC in order to increase real life fiat value, to get in/out of crypto back to fiat you either use BTC or in smaller cases ETH, so the main security here for traders is to ensure they don't lose BTC value, it's why all alts are tied to the movements of BTC, if we have a stable BTC price people will be confident enough to go for alts, if BTC is dipping or climbing up people take the secure option and hold their BTC instead, it's always been this way and won't change over night if at all.
If you can't understand that side of crypto you'll struggle to profit.