If you watch
http://coinmarketcap.com/ you will notice:
(1) A lot of alt-coins will come from nowhere and jump to the top 25, only to eventually fall out of the top 25.
Here are some that have come and gone in the past 10 days (these coins all used to be worth more than iXcoin):
25 Cryptogenic Bullion $ 1,101,774 $ 1.18 932,461 CGB $ 16,665 -12.21 %
26 GoldCoin $ 1,072,040 $ 0.037 29,242,265 GLD $ 7,408 -4.77 %
28 Sexcoin $ 917,377 $ 0.017 52,493,825 SXC $ 11,418 +20.48 %
33 Unobtanium $ 720,866 $ 5.86 123,030 UNO $ 13,897 +4.43 %
34 StableCoin $ 684,177 $ 0.073 9,326,955 SBC $ 2,785 -3.68 %
36 FlorinCoin $ 603,070 $ 0.016 38,059,900 FLO $ 7,583 -10.50 %
41 LottoCoin $ 411,857 $ 0.00012 3,515,536,833 LOT $ 48,691 -15.28 %
48 Philosopher Stones $ 212,436 $ 0.13 1,611,833 PHS $ 2,236 -16.19 %
(2) iXcoin is consistently in the low 20s with a marketcap of 2 million or more.
In short, Alt-coins are a dime a dozen. If you buy a "pump and dump" coin, then expect to lose a lot when the dump happens.
iXcoin has been around for over 2 1/2 years, the price over that entire period has been relatively solid.
The following coins I also expect to fall much further:
6 Nxt $ 43,408,595 $ 0.043 999,997,986 NXT* $ 115,185 +3.47 %
14 DogeCoin $ 7,924,274 $ 0.00032 24,920,056,265 DOGE $ 421,962 +39.73 %
15 Infinitecoin $ 6,616,294 $ 7.4e-05 89,572,983,309 IFC $ 18,149 -8.88 %
16 Zetacoin $ 3,668,544 $ 0.023 159,590,953 ZET $ 4,449 -3.00 %
17 NetCoin $ 3,398,657 $ 0.017 198,798,074 NET $ 25,133 -14.07 %
20 Tickets $ 2,836,103 $ 4.2e-05 66,876,281,414 TIX $ 4,564 -1.18 %
23 EarthCoin $ 1,335,823 $ 0.002 681,317,689 EAC $ 22,548 +40.97 %
Which is obvious... just look how many coins were all ready created in just a few months time.
Talks about absolutely ridiculous!