Short-term performance doesn't indicate anything about the future. Every rational speculator knows this.

Perhaps Monero will benefit from chaos and uncertainty in Bitcoin, and given such a small market cap might be ripe for pump & dump by the Chinese or whomever. This is what speculators often wait for and are actually just pretending to themself (or to the group) that they really have any acumen to pick and manage long-term plans with serious marketing.

I could have made a lot of easy money last year if I had just played this game and watched very carefully what I wrote and did not write. But I am not interested in pumps & dumps.

Edit: the problem is that in theory no one has been able to amass a large quantity of Monero at near 0 cost (e.g. no premine), thus no one has an incentive (nor the control over the float) to do the pump & dump.