Mastercoin was $52 on that chart and is now $2.65
Auroracoin has gone from $22.22 to $0.02 - 2 cents (I'm not even working that loss in % out).
Luckily I bought only 0.03 worth of AC
No one reads my posts? I worked it out as a 99.8% loss in value, clearly making it the WORST investment of the year. I never bought any but a friend was trying to get in on the pump and I told him it was a bad idea and he lost like 10 BTC.
I considered buying but decided not to because it was about $2.50 a coin and I thought it could not get pumped up much from there. In retrospect I missed out on the chance to make some money but also missed out on the chance of losing a considerable amount of money.
That was the lure of it, so many people were buying it just because it was going up so it was very inviting except when you are seeing it in action you can't determine if you just bought the top. I'm sure a bunch of people also made money off of trading it but then a lot would get too excited seeing the price going up that they don't sell in time and end up getting burned. It's poor strategy to try and catch every pump over real market fundamentals, more often than not you will end up on the losing end.