or am i misunderstanding this and its not like free money or stocks?
Yes, you're misunderstanding this. Forks don't have to have any value - they have value because people perceive them to. There are people who believe that SegWit2x is relevant and that the 2MB hard fork is required, and those people will be buying the coins that other people sell.
Also, because so many other people have this strange misconception, the price increases quite dramatically soon before the fork as people anticipate it happening. They see the fact that there is a fork but they don't see what the fork actually is. So you wouldn't be getting
any advantage by trying to follow along with all of those people.
Also, you seem to be talking about trading in order to gain this money, which is something that you could be doing at pretty much any time, not just when BTC is experiencing a major event.
I found this on Bitcoin Cash:
I If I own Bitcoin, do I automatically own Bitcoin Cash too?
Anyone who held Bitcoin at the time Bitcoin Cash was created became owners of Bitcoin Cash. This means that Bitcoin holders as of block 478558 (August 1st, 2017 about 13:16 UTC) have the same amount of Bitcoin Cash as they had Bitcoin at that time. If your Bitcoins are stored by a third party such as an exchange, then you must inquire with them about your Bitcoin Cash.
Any transactions after the August 1st ledger split are completely separate between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. This means any Bitcoin acquired after the split does not include any Bitcoin Cash, and any Bitcoin Cash does not include any Bitcoin.came across this when researching BTC Cash. It seems identical to what i posted above only they are valuing the
I dont understand how the post i found on BTC Cash fork is any different thaan what im asking about? BTC Cash is grwoing in value daily or is $564 going to crash into nothing?