Last 24 hours stats show
2014-07-12 18hours LTC 0.00066 BTC per MH/s
2014-07-12 18hours CM 0.00022 BTC per MH/s (the linear graph drops way below the LTC)
So I am referring to the hourly stats, lets say you only used CM for this hours alone, you would have just been better on LTC? Am I completely missing the point?
Please forgive my ignorance if the answer is obvious, I am a new shibe and am grateful for your input.
Midge
And 2014-07-13 2AM is nearly 300% of LTC.
If you mine LTC (or any other coin) your income is the blocks you find (or the pool finds, if you are in a pool). Blocks are found randomly. The "LTC profitability" on the chart is theoretical, i.e. how many blocks you would find
on average with the given hashrate, but the actual LTC earnings are not linear at all. Higher hashrate = better chances to find a block, so that's the reason to join a pool. But even a 70 GH/s pool can have its bad and good streaks, deviating from the average in the short term and approaching the average in the long term. In other words the ups and downs on the hourly chart are completely normal and expected.
As for switching to something else during the "down" periods - you can't predict the bad streaks, so you wouldn't know in advance when to switch.