I'm consistently putting small amounts into ETH and LTC as a kind of emergency fund that likes to grow. When, exactly, do you guys think that the recent surge in BTC will result in a "catch up" surge in ETH and LTC?
I do, but it looks like you are a new adopters of crypto right? have you seen the old chart and that should be 2017 chart and the price of anyother coins will grow after bitcoin has down with its pump. Price of ethereum and litecoin will follow the surge that happens on the bitcoin price after it has stopped.
This pattern was repeating so many times and it's so easy to know where will be the direction of crypto.
I agree with this 100%. It is so often the case that once the BTC surge starts to slow down, then money pours into alts, and they increase as well. And also if you look at the charts for the huge bear market, you can see that alts started to drop in early January 2018... but you will also see that BTC peaked and started to drop shortly before that. BTC price movements can often be very useful in predicting how alts will move.