As the price of BTC is increasing on an upward trend and falls only by few bucks, short-term Alternative Coin traders are crying blood. I believe it is due to the upcoming fork. How many more forks are we expecting in the future? It seems that through forks they are pumping the price of btc and once the price becomes stagnant they will start another fork.
I don't really think that's related. Bitcoin price is increasing because more and more people are trusting bitcoin. I'm sure you remember what happen to bitcoin with the bcash fork. The price dropped a lot because of fear. Since the bitcoin proved to be stable and capable of handling these forks, that fear is gone.
Of course that we all expect to profit from this fork, like we did with bcash. If they are giving free money to the bitcoins holders, we accept it. But that's not the reason why more people are buying bitcoin and the price is increasing. You don't know how much bgold will be worth on exchanges, so people are buying bitcoin because they see it as a good investment, and they are not just trying to capitalize on this fork.