Just shows how much speculating there is. Nobody is trading cause there waiting for auction results. The low volume now is just the normal commerce of people buying things with btc.
I think its safe to say by the end of the year everybody will at least know what bitcoin is. We will now start seeing some bitcoin company commercials.
I think $5k is a strong possibility. Too many impatient people want it to happen immediately. Remember the block reward will be halving in a year and a half. 50% less coins will be mined each day. I'd say in about a year miners will start to price this in and raise there ask prices. This alone could double the price.