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My guess about what will happen the coming weeks:

Monday 6th - Friday 10th the price will continue to go up.
Late on Friday or on Saturday some new anouncements regarding segwit2x will be made which will indicate less support, therefor making the success of the fork even more shaky.
From Saturday 11th and/or Sunday we see the BTC price stagnating with even a small to moderate decline.
Just before the fork the price of BTC continues to fall in single digit numbers.
Once the fork has happened and the negative news regarding segwit2x will come in, the  BTC price will take a double digit nose dive - this decline will last till early december.

After December 5th the price will stabilize and double digit gains will be made all the way into the new year.

What happens in January? - I find this hard to predict at the moment.

I know this might sound provocative, but with the current BTC price it is profitable to do some cloud mining.
I'm not going to recommend any service provider or give you a referral link, but with current prices I've been able to get my initial investment back within 3 to 4 months.

This means that the remaining 8 months of the mining contract are profitable for me.

Some bullet points of my experience:

* The service provider skims about 15% of my bottom line as a maintenance/service fee.
* I receive daily payouts to my wallet.
* Only invest money you can miss
* Set goals for individual mining contracts, don't be tempted to perpetually re-invest earned BTC into more 'hashing power' to snowball your investment.

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The difficulty I see with alt coins is that you can't spend them easily at merchants.