I am also surprised when i read this speculation, because in this year, no chance, but within next 2 years, may be something good with bitcoin price, but i always say that we should keep in mind that bitcoin will never go to increase may be it will down continuously, just like exchange hacked, some bad incident would be happened again in future and again damage the bitcoin price.
We should really not expect that it would rise directly without any price dips since we dont know the price on upcoming days and months and it does affect on those circumstances and things that might affect bitcoins price thats why we experience rise and lows on price. Speculations are just hopes of all bitcoin users , i admit that all holders are aiming on the same thing which is bitcoins high price.
the pricfe of the bitcoin is not very high right now and that all depends about the peopelk who are still holding the bitcoins you know lots of people domnt want to selel