I think people are realizing the increasingly positive fundamentals of LTC that you mention. If you compare it to the rest of the altcoin market, LTC is one of the few that has paced with BTC and is still on the higher end of it move from 2017. If the whole market could hold up here, it may test prices that will put it close to Bitcoin Cash in regards to market cap (or as Charlie Lee has called it, “the flappening”).