Bitcoin had a very slow rise to $7000 and now it is staying there. and whenever something like that happens and bitcoin becomes stable (with less than 5% change in one day) the altcoins become attractive to investors again. them being dumped and be ready for the "after dump recovery" helped with the recent small rises that you saw among them. I believe bitcoin will stay at $7k for a while it was a very slow pace to remain at 7k, one have to hope that the correction is about done and more investors will see the need to invest back into the market.