BCH is a speculation / pump and dump clone. So there will be probably enough people trying to earn money from the fools that bought the story.
In my view too, BCH is not having any big differences from XRP in terms of support from whales and frequent scenarios of bump and dump. It is literally another centralized corporate coin. Hence, there are lot of possibilities for it to stay competitive in the markets by keep attracting innocent investors and traders. Application wise, I believe it has zero meaning still people use it for momentary benefits in both short term and long term basis.
The coin made some gains today looking at cmc.
When bitcoin prices are getting pumped, most other altcoins are also following it and this is what exactly happened today. Right now XRP lost all their today's gain and trading very near to its today's lower prices. Look at bitcoins, it is staying stronger near today's high levels after gaining significant percentage.