For a long term price increase slight pullbacks are required. If we witness ridiculous growth it won’t be sustainable as everybody would worry that’s it’s not going to hold and panic sell. The steady rise of LTC over the last week (well, over the last year) is exactly what will eventually get it to a 3 digit coin and eventually a 4. Once certain things are announced it will jump and hold and steadily rise until something else, then jump, hold (new support) then rise. Just like we’ve seen with BTC being a perfect example.