In actual practice we can't say that particular coins are much powerful or will powerful in the particular month or year.
It depend upon you to select the particular altcoin for the profit/loss.
Since every newbie always faces the problem of how to select or which altcoin to buy  but here I will hive advice for your to make money from dead coin in yobit .
You need to make account at yobit  then see every coin and its one month graph find those coins whose price is at very low amount from the last month .
And then placed your selling order in advance then you will be able to make a netter amount of profit from such types of useless amount if altcoin .