I also expect a price increase on charts after the fork. ETH fork will let transactions to speed up and fees will be lower than the previous chain.
When there's a fork same as what had happened last 2017, we will exactly experience more smooth transactions. This improvements will go beyond limits and eliminates blockchain network issues like delayed transactions. Probability will create more new demands that will help eth community establish a better way of gaining higher profit, and we'll see eth be rising again; soaring better than ever before.