Do not expect a lot from Ethereum, for now. Everything is coming, but it will take a time, next year is a target, but we know that it will be postponed by few months.
ethereum is a long-term asset. of course it takes time for growth. not much hope for bulls and ethereum pumps, the most important is the movement in the uptrend is good.
There is no such thing as long term asset when it comes to altcoins the pumping and dumping is constant just follows what the market think its worth. If you are looking for the real long term asset then invest to gold although the price also fluctuates but atleast gold market capital is huge.