It's back to square one if you are holding a coin or token for long term and finally altcoin season comes and the token or coin surge in value but has no trading volume on exchange, all your efforts and pain while holding is total waste, do not hold tokens or coins that have no demands, real use cases are what makes them very demanding
I only see this case when trading with ICO tokens.
I also experience situation like this. I hodl a token and then got surprised that the price takes a high positive increase, and when i see the volume it is very low. Now i just wanted to keep it and maybe in the near future there would be an enough volume for my good token price.
Could you tell me the name of that token? According to my experience, I just know DENT is the only project raised strongly after a long time it had a low volume at a high price. I remember that it lasted for a year, and just by rumour news about listing on a Korea Exchange made DENT token value raised so much. At least it has increased ten times the value of ICO. I remember roughly that.