I am also studying alt coins these days. I have started my study with Cryptonex. When i was started learning about it. That time price of coin is good and growing day by day. But now as per market situation price is going down and down.
A lot of them have been turning long recently with the MACD showing divergence and for those who are going long, this is a time for them to start getting in and I believe a lot of traders are already beginning to accumulate. Still, we cannot say yet if they have finally escaped the bear market or not, but the thing here is that they have all bottomed out enough and they really do not have much space left to go downward, at least for now.
In last few days, bitcoin is trading strong hence we may see altcoins also will be recovering. But anything may happen in cryptomarkets and we cannot be sure only because of bitcoin's recovery, altcoins also will recover like that. Only time may answer like altcoins got escaped or not.