"...the alternative cryptocurrency market could take its own direction getting rid of the BTC influence.
the only way altcoins can stop getting dumped each time bitcoin goes down is IF they start having real usages apart from being pump and dump coins and purely be for speculation. and until they change that, they will remain the same.
The big caps altcoin response has been amazing so far."
with a quick look at the charts you can clearly see that it is pure nonsense. any altcoin out there got dumped the same whether they had big market cap or low market cap. for instance ETH got dumped a lot more than bitcoin percentage wise!