I think people overestimate the effect of chatter and rumors .
This is a free market and the brightest people with the coldest most honest minds are capitalizing on distorted perceptions and growing richer every day.
THEY rule this world, no one else. And THEY set the market cap of all the top coins. The fact that both BitShares X and PTS is in the top 10 proves that chatter is not putting its money where its mouth is.
This is a lesson I learned by watching NXT. Despite the vicious attack, near assault that chatter forced upon NXT, a market cap rising alarmingly fast was the result and underlying truth of the situation.
Someone, likely the brightest most honest and richest people among all of us, had already analyzed the situation thoroughly and invested accordingly, the rest of the chatterbox are still poor and unhappy.
The more we all learn to think like the best and brightest traders the better we will do marketcap wise. They don't have unlimited foresight and will capitalize equally short term on weak products as well as long term on strong ones, but I have no doubt that they see right through the surface chatter that permeates this space.
What they won't be able to predict, however, is what they don't know about. For instance the upcoming snapshots are likely still outside their range of analysis. As soon as we get the information out there, we can rely on the market to do a fair assessment, regardless of what everyone on the forums are spouting.