Both Monero and Bitcoin are destined to go up this and most likely whole next year. Swings down as Monero had last two days will for sure happen but general trend will be up. I dont see any other way. Number of transactions will be by far highest in October, no matter the protocol upgrade bad two days. Emission inflation is at 1.58%. That is just like Gold. Everything under $200 for all year high does not sound nice.
I agree, though I think there are too many weak hands to ever see Monero > 1KUSD.
Though I think we will probably see XMR/BTC at 0.008 with BTC at 50K some day, so say 400usd for XMR.
FWIW I've held from 7usd to 480usd and back.
So it's all over. The ATH is well above any chance of a new ATH. Ever. Might as well shut down development. A lot of people putting a LOT of effort into something that will never succeed. Too bad, things were looking good. Clearly we are all better off trading for BTC here and now for ~0.01 BTC/XMR. Oh. You first.