This could potentially be the reason the price is going up, which is also similar to what happened with Bitcoin Cash, and that while the general expectation was that the price would go down instead. I however doubt that we'll see the price go up much higher just because of Bitcoin Gold, because at the end of the day, it enjoys less importance and 'hype' than Bitcoin Cash. But we'll find out for real when the time is right, if this indeed turned out the be the real reason the price has been climbing up, the chances are high that the price will correct itself to sub $4500 levels. At some point, I do expect the price to correct anyway, with the potential November hard fork coming closer.