You could say that recent price movement doesn't support my thesis, but you can not show market capitalization as evidence for money flow.
If the same 2 dozen traders trade the price higher by 10% among themselves the market cap will increase 10%, but there was no money inflow...
1.Pfff.... trading among themselves will not increase market cap at all (it only influences volume).....
2.Your first post was "capital is flowing to alt-coins". So on what did you based that thesis?
Even price increase is not always indicative of money flow, but depending on what recent time frame we pick. LTC's is higher and BTC is flat. (last 2 weeks)
So that could be indicative of people leaving BTC for the safer LTC, even if just temporarily...
2. People stating there move on Reddit...
Ha.... I'm on Reddit as well,
By the way LTC this year has been beating BTC pretty much on every time frame. YTD, 2 weeks, etc. Smaller drops after an ATH, faster recovery (actually higher recovery)... Sure you can cherry pick one where BTC performed better, but overall LTC is the clear winner this year...
The point is, market caps are useless for measuring anything...