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.
You will not be able to influence the manipulation of the prices of crypto-currencies on some exchanges. The only thing you can do is stop trading on them and find sites with fairer trading. If exchanges manipulating cryptocurrency prices will have an outflow of traders for this reason, perhaps they will correct this situation for the better. In the meantime, we have what we have.