You probably lost money wit Litecoin because it, for whatever reason, does not follow the patterns that Bitcoin does. For example, the previous exponential rise say Bitcoin multiply by more then 5 times its initial value, whereas Litecoin barely rose at all. This is not what normally happens... most cryptos rise with Bitcoin. I am not sure why Litecoin does not, but if I were you I would sell LTC for BTC right now.