Most definitely. I suspect all the Top 10 Alts will follow BTC down. DOGE seems to be resisting at the moment, and perhaps given possible outcomes based around events of the next two weeks (as indicated in previous posts), it may continue with an uptrend. Certainly over at Multipool.us 99.999% of the miners are still mining the DOGE (OK, thats an exageration, its actually 97.123%). However, while BTC is going down I suspect the majority of the Altcoins will follow suit and even for the DOGE, unless there is a mass awakening, its rise from here through the end of Feb will be subdued.
Certainly there will be daily specials along the way like Unobtanium right now, but unless you know the coin well and the comings and goings, or are very lucky, its hard to know just when to play these.
Of course when the recovery begins from BTC's $500 low or $484 low or $525 low or whichever it is, LTC will follow suit. And LTC will have its own quirky up moves from time to time as well in March, April, May as it likes to do. Darned if I can figure out when and why those happen, still trying to understand it.
NMC on the other hand, while being the oldest Altcoin, if we look at the period from July 2013 until November 2013, it saw an extended downtrend. Another observation about NMC from the past is that when BTC spiked, NMC typically always spiked first a few days beforehand, which is handy to observe because it could be an excellent play come mid-July 14 and then exit late July to BTC which should be spiking a few days later and then exit that as well and await the huge price drop ($8K -> $3.5K???).
The problem NMC has now is there are other Altcoins contending for a spot on the Top 10 List. Firstly, Worldcoin (WDC) is all but gone now. Quarkcoin (QRK) should be gone but the fact that its totally mined out keeps it there and until it hits $0.03 and/or lower it so shall remain. So the point being is NMC now finds competition from a number of different coins (DOGE for one, but watch Vertcoin and another little Gem I won't mention just yet) whereas it didn't have this competition in the past. It (NMC) would have to hit a price of $1.00 to be relegated to 11th spot, and I very much doubt that will happen to NMC. I am noticing that yet again someone is trying to stir NMC into action by doing a Pump and Dump on it, but when a coin gets into the Top 10 List its pretty much impossible now to achieve this, so I am not sure why people even try. I'm now all out of NMC and so I'm just watching the comings and goings with amusement. My expectations for NMC from here? A continued down trend on into June and a high $2 number should not be out of the question by early June mixed along the way with some New Moon Price spikes where it will be a good play for some profit taking. NMC? lets just say keep watching NMC as each and every New Moon approaches. The next is on 1 March 2013 which will be super boring for all the Altcoins, NMC included, but on 30 March or 29 April, well it could be a different story altogether.