Almost everything else is traded against BTC (or ETH on some exchanges), very few of the "shitcoins" can be traded directly for USD (or even USDT). So when BTC

Almost everything else is traded against BTC (or ETH on some exchanges), very few of the "shitcoins" can be traded directly for USD (or even USDT). So when BTC and ETH go down in fiat value, so do the shitcoins, even if they might be up in satoshis (or mETH) Anyways, it's still higher than it was 3 weeks ago and appears to have found supports. Nothing goes straight up forever.