Just came across this in the MAID forum and I think there are some interesting parallels with FCT. User is "Jabba," a main contributor to the forum.
https://safenetforum.org/t/maidsafecoin-maid-price-trading-topic/9923/814"Until we have a live network the prices are just noise. They are basically meaningless. It's purely speculators entering to make a profit, then leaving to try to make short-term profit elsewhere when they see an opportunity. All price changes reflect is whether most speculators think BTC will go up more first, or whether MAID will. At the moment most speculators think BTC is more likely to keep going up over the next few days. Maid fell slower than other alts at first because there was more expectation of something interesting happening in MAID quite soon. Now quite a few people changed their minds because BTC buy signals stayed strong and support has been strong enough to suggest BTC might keep going up for the next week or more.
When BTC eventually retraces some of the gains MAID will probably recover most of the value, but it will still be meaningless really. Unless you are just in for short term trades then prices mean nothing and should not really annoy anyone. I bought my coins with the hope that they will be worth close to $1 each [MAID is currently ~$.05] soon after launch, presuming it all works as we hope. It might take a bit longer than any of us had hoped, but that hasn't changed, so it really makes no difference how the price yo-yo's between 2c and 20c before then imo.
It's fun watching it go up and sad to see it go down, but it really doesn't make any difference for now, unless you're brave enough to trade it for gains. If the network launches successfully and we're sitting on coins worth under 50c a few months later, then I think we all have the right to be a little shocked and scratch our heads wondering why. For now these price changes are irrelevant and only reflect the very short-term expectations of speculators, with zero utility demand to provide stability or price support."
I think this is an interesting perspective. The main difference though is that M2 is around the corner, while the network release for MAID is 2-3 months away.
