I see date as a positive thing 26th Feb is a good date for them to test gives a better timeframe also this makes the team to test and come out with a better version for ETH
by the way this is very important upgrade this actually changes the eth protocol to a better one this is not 1 protocol but bunch of other protocols to imply and work on its future. Vitalik has good visions for this i could see his name being in books in near future for a good invention.
We have to think positive the crypto community is very small compared to the market outside manipulation from whales would be much smaller in near future.

Investors who can take advantage of bearish market will get returns in later bullish one.
It's a hard time for investors, but as the saying goes: There are challenges, there are also big opportunities
Ethereum, in reality, have brought great chances for us this year.

Yeah real investors will invest at every dip, nobody knows that when market will start growing.
You are right hard time for investors, really hard to predict the future price of Ethereum but investors still buying and weak hands selling.
Yup end of February  ethereum could go higher after hard fork. Let's see!  

Just curious about what will happen after ether gets its block decrease and do these speculators will take it as a serious thing. POS, Scalability fixed, i hope this one will try to implement anti asic miners too.

Without bullish and all of these coins that you have bought during the crash will be useless.

Let's see what happens next because it's still too early but for now I keeping myself updated about fidelity digital from their twitter and medium handle.

Actually every one can predict the price of Ethereum. If Bitcoin dropos 3%, Eth drops 13%. If Bitcoin jumps 3%, Eth jumps 5% (may be). Not very attractive for investors currently. We need a long bull market and Bitcoin above 10K to see the next big Eth pump. But I don't care, I stopped mining Eth and hold it since the last crash what I mined - only 5% vs 94% BTC and 1% xmr.

This is a huge numbers, while marketcap of all crypto in almost ~70x much less right now. Hope they will not postponed launch like Bakkt and we will see huge grow of crypto. This looks like more promising than Bakkt.As they will have not only custody service but trading execution as well 
May be we will hit 1 trillion cap at last with such big players on the market 

I am not sure about that we should probably for an official statement from Fidelity but according to this article they are on final testing phase of platform.

https://www.ccn.com/final-testing-phase-fidelity-nears-launch-of-cryptocurrency-trading-custody-platform/

This year we are going to see some major improvement in the market, because many legit companies are showing lot of interest towards the project which will help to grow the market cap of the cryptocurrency. So it is very good to hold the coin until the market starts recovering.