While everyone keeps have individual opinions and speculations on the next prices of cryptos, especially on the next altcoin season, I'll say we are moving nowhere because of price manipulation by exchanges. The actions of some exchanges is dropping the prices of tokens unnaturally and these affects market and industry confidence. How can we attract new money into the market when top wash trading exchanges like Bitforex and Bibox still exists and deceives people freely?
I don't need to add links to prove, but just google these exchanges and add the wash trading to your search term, you'll be marvelled at the results you'll find.
Manipulation only really works when the trading volume of a coin is low - that way you only need a little money to move the price.
Once the trading volume for a given coin is huge, it's hard to manipulate because you need loads of money to do it.
So the answer is build your community, make sure your coin is popular which results in large trading volumes for it - and the manipulation diminishes.
, search tweets, and also Google Bitforex Eth Price manipulation, and answer for yourself.