The top is in i guess? lower low downtrend begins!
Of course that's expected. Whatever goes up must go down eventually. The question now is what's the next floor?
It is science the law of gravity. And agree with what you said. The next is that after the fork it will eventually increases. This is not about pump and dump and it was not like a normal doing in bitcoin as it requires more money than altcoin pumping and dumping. It is a natural way of human expectation and perception.
Whether it's law of gravity or something else, but till now after price decrease it gradually increase or after certain time period it increases to reach higher value. Now too, based on the fork the price has decreased and hope the price will soon start to increase and cross the $6000 mark before the month end.