It will breack $10000 by the end of this year if bitcoin does not crash hard. Also there is a news saying that vitalik return to focus building next update with proof of stake. And for me. Proof of stake is more reliable for scaling. It is not using alot of power to mine. At mid 2018 ethereum probably will break $4000 mark and then correction again.
I agree with you. ETH has a good technical background. may reach high value by the middle of the year (> $ 4000)
if the prediction that crypto price will be recovered within the end of the month it may happen that the value of eth will reach that value , comeback price is much higher sometimes so it is not impossible to reach that kind of value within midyear.