The price in USD is heavily dependent on the price of bitcoin and is somewhat irrelevant until ETC gets many more ETC/USD pairs, right now if you want to buy ETC in most cases you have to buy BTC first. ETC was around $45 when BTC was at an all time high.

What matters is price in bitcoin, and if you look at the chart its consolidated and gone sideways since the big pump back in the summer of 2017 (just like alot of other altcoins), so its fair to assume that ETC will follow suit of an altcoin pump in the future.

Like many others have said....it could potentially be a good buy at this price in btc. good luck, not financial advice. dyor