Right. Buying something with no long term prospects, as its' development has largely stalled and there are no initiatives underway, just because it gets ping-ponged by bots seems like the best investment one can make.
So what happens to Litecoin when a real alternate finally creates a product or service that is actually needed and used by more than 100,000 users? By then your great investment becomes worthless and there will be no violins playing.
Litecoin is the real noob / bull trap. The best investment here is Bitshares, NEM and NXT - even if the volume isn't hot right now - because one of the three will eventually make a product actually wanted by non-crypto nerds.