JPM coin affected XRP, really?
They are both come from financial companies, but I don't think JPM might have effect on XRP.
ETH will steadily stay at the second position on CMC for years to come.
There will not have any flippening in the second position in next few years.

Ethereum has stood at the second position on coinmarketcap.
Fortunately, Ethereum has more powerful than that, it has the second largest ecosystem in crypto.
And, total volume traded in ETH is the largest one, behind bitcoin, in crypto market.
It's amazing strong altcoin.
I don't see other coins (for now) can take over Ethereum.

Not just technically, but a lot of good news says about upcoming next bullrun (ETH fork in the end of February, launch of Fidelity in March, than launch of Bakkt etc.). And it seems than big whales accumulating crypto outside exchanges already and preparing for new biggest bullrun in crypto-history...

Yeah that's also one great thought that we are the same with the great old internet early days. People don't believe on it and it has thought that it's not going to change the world but look at it right now. Internet is one of the most important thing now that the people needed. Companies won't operate if there's no internet and mostly people can't do their jobs and activities if there's none. The same goes for Ethereum, bitcoin and other most important crypto's.

i think we must wait till 2021 2022 when next adoption wave will came   and btc halving

eth with updates will also follow price up you'll see

I would be careful shorting ETH or even BTC next week or the week after due to the fork on Feb 28th.

As history has it most of the Bitmex alts usually end up pumping prior to the fork and then right before the fork they come crashing down trapping many retail traders and causing a huge sell off.

Basically what happened before where it failed to break $160, then the fork got delayed due to the bug and caused a big dump.

I don't like to play with the price now, if they are good in shorting the market then they should stick with what they do.
I could be wrong but I have a feeling that we will have a good rise in the days to come, either whales will long or short the market, I don't care
because I'm not affected, I can hold longer and wait until ETH will reach 4 digits again.

Well, if a pattern is repeated at bitmex, then it does not mean that it will be repeated again this time at ETH fork. Whales might play a little differently to gain more profit. They could sell off before and pump right after the hardfork. Do not ignore any possibilities.

It is possible that market to be moved other way this time as someone said above few posts. Last time general expectation was to see ETH showing gain at least till the last moment but it didn't. This time fear and careful approach of small traders can show them unexpected results as well. If HF is successful and there is no further delay then it will move price of ETH before or after HF completion.