Just now, I was referring to the gains during a btc bubble due to positive beta.  I am admitting the possibility that NXT may be a beneficiary of that.  As windjc said, it is a leading candidate for 2.0 applications.  That creates a speculative attraction.

2.0 applications are a much more speculative thing, however, as compared to the 1.0 use as liquidity vehicle.  NXT has no distinctives in that tier, and cannot be expected to displace BTC from its primary niche as a transparent vehicle of liquidity.  My skepticism of NXT is skepticism that it can make gains in the dominant present use of crypto.  In the 1.0 space, I think anonymity is the only meaningful distinctive, which can provide meaningful added value.  

I am biased away from speculative potentials (which would tend to favor NXT) and towards manifest fundamentals (which I deem to favor MRO).  But I may buy some NXT in order to benefit from the beta slingshot, nonetheless.  Probably not more than 2% of my crypto at this point.

I think NXT is likely to be more stable than any other crypto.  By which I mean an excellent Sortino ratio.  I would consider it one of the most conservative investments in crypto.  BTC would be the most conservative.