The price of ethereum is did increase during this january, and i hope it will continue to increase even after the hardfork happen. Cause there are people that saying the price will be fall again after hardfork.
It is equally sure after hard fork the price will drop. I have seen a lot of hard fork and its price has dropped when people have stopped FOMO. and this time I think ETH will be the same
This, too, can not be excluded, but still the expectations of investors can play a crucial role, only the lazy now does not buy Ethereum in anticipation of at least some price increase