It is not advised to buy on July 31st, may be a day before that or two. You need to have all your stash on a wallet but segwit. The price will definitely rise and it'll be a new life for all the Bitcoiners here. Buy as early as possible and hold them well.
It is best to buy before July31 though we cannot predict the price of bitcoin. These past few days bitcoin has downtrend and today it seems recovering. I dont know if this is stable or what but the fluctuation is normal. So when dump buy if you have funds and hold.
Don't let some trap recovery price make you buying and take loss, use your brain and analysic mentality of trader on market in some days. They are scared status SegWit2x and only when have some good news about SegWit2x can success, they going to buy very fast but this not is stable, just temporary and can't helps the price of Bitcoin can recovery at now!
LOL, we may not be 100% sure about the outcome of August 1st but with every day that passes we become a little more sure. for example ever since miners started signalling their support for SegWit yesterday the certainty increased greatly and that is why price also went up this much.
in a couple of days as the % increases and SegWit becomes "locked in" there is no doubt about anything since there won't be any return and it will activate with majority of miners.
now you can see this as an opportunity to buy before the big rise or you can see this as a "trap". that is your choice, but it doesn't change any of the facts stated.
I think its not a trap if we seen the price is rising it is because they already been tested the segwit and they what will actually would be effect of segwit.. honestly its just a piece of code that i think that can improve the use of bitcoin..
And developers will not doing to damage bitcoin they are always doing developing bitcoin just to improve the performance of bitcoin..
So expect that we will see more price increase before end of this month..