I doubt you're telling the truth about your "massive project", OP. Bitcoin was at $7700 only for a short time (less than an hour). $7300-7500 was the highest point it reached for a considerable time. So either you failed miserably negotiating a fair price or you are only trying to increase your post count.
To answer anyway: Yes, I believe it will cross $7000 again. I don't know if its' this year, but I'm sure it will do so until 2019. $5500 could also be only a dip, due to heavy BTC/BCH speculation.
(And this thread belongs into the "Speculation" forum.)
+1 for him not being honest.
As for BTC/BCH, IMHO, this situation will ruin both chain permanently and bring us expected massive correction in BTC value, regardless of winning chain.