People are getting info about November fork, we might see drop below 3600 in next 48 hours and before Nomber possibly to 3k or less, but 3k will probably be a huge support. Also 1/3 (33 %) of miners changed from btc mining to bitcoin cash mining. People will FUD, sell now, buy back later when bitcoin dips. Segwit 23 August was already priced in and we risk fiasco of unsuccessful segwit transactions and/or lost coins because of segwit security vulnerabilities. Even Slush pool CEO (inventor of bitcoin mining pools) said that he first needs to see segwit transactions, until then no one knows.
Every single speculation news can be interpreted as FUD, to a degree.
However i agree with you. I think that the price of bitcoin is only going to moderately go up or not go up at all at 23rd August when Segwit is likely going to get activated due to the fact htat price has already been pumped.
People already know that it's going to get activated, it's not a surprise or anything. So on the day, it's probably going to be quite anti-climatic at least in the sense of price. price is way too high right now, meaning that a correction in the short term is imminent. But after the correction i'd expect a huge wave of buying happening again.