The biggest indicator of future price growth is the constantly increasing number of contributors, development, and ongoing research. Pay attention to the other projects in the space that tend to expand vertically but not horizontally. The amount of simultaneous developments in Monero is proof that it isn't going away any time soon, and is rapidly outpacing any would-be competitor.

"Litecoin is silver to Bitcoin`s gold"
What kind of justification for LTC existance is this?
This is not the the way I plan my investments.

And no, DASH tech is pretty much worthless compared to what ETH, XMR and IOTA can do.
I just need to take a look at their devs, kind of people who are into their "community" and the problems their technology does (or does not) solve to have my strong opinion about it.

1. Your statement about Ethereum is flatly false. The Ethereum Metropolis fork adds support for both approaches, not just Zcash (zksnarks and ring signatures). In fact I came across a video last week where Vitalik was personally explaining the benefits of both.

2. Companies like JP Morgan will often make big announcements about high profile initiatives and partnerships when working with other companies such as Zcash. Frankly in only a minority of cases do these intitiatives ever lead anywhere beyond press releases. However, those same companies also very often have people internally and quietly working with decentralized open source technologies. I would be virtually certain there are people within JP Morgan studying Monero and thinking about how to make use of it (and other open source cryptocurrency projects too), without any press releases being generated. That also does not guarantee it will ever lead anywhere (perhaps Jamie Dimon will find out and fire them).

I think its the calm before the storm, good time to prepare - will be interesting to see what happens on Nov 1 or Nov 15. Some of the smaller coins have already started going crazy, not time for XMR yet =)

It's looking like early on Nov 16th, now, for Segwit2x.  My hunch is the Bitcoin user base is largely fine with the status quo - the Big Blockers anti SW types already have their BCH, so I can't see S2x being popular with users (meaning one would expect a post-fork dump and a quickly widening price differential in favour BTC).  

However, the Replay Protection issue will mean dumping is hesitant and there do seem to be significant forces still behind S2X and even BCH can possibly benefit too, if BTC loses a lot of hash rate to either BCH or S2x.  Signalling is still over 80%, I was hoping to see it drop lower in the run up to the fork, which is a also a concern.

It's definitely more 'potential' trouble than BCH was (and the farcical Bitcoin Gold) and how it will play out is still not certain.  

What it means for XMR is hard to tell.  Total victory for BTC will see BTC rise and, (short-term) no help to the XMR price, but ultimately an improving situation and a good Q1 2018 for all.  However, uncertainty in Bitcoin could be bad for the whole market.

So short-term, I hope BTC wins, but long-term we will still not have solved the scaling debate properly and there will be a lot of unsatisfied actors around.

I thought we were waiting for multi-sig, ledger or another walonek post--not sure where to rank those in importance.

How all moroneros like to lose the train at BTC ? 6k again and noMore all the way at 86-89 usd. Not to mention 2 month falling oversold BTC price and no end of this waterfall at the horizon.

Rather good support - I expected a hammering, but some people seem to know a bargain when they see one...

As long as the air drop isn't risky becaue of lack of replay protection, expect an initial BTC rise, then diversification of profits into crypto - so XMR today is looking very cheap.

Come next spring I suspect people will be cursing every XMR they ever sold.

xmr is like a long term hold, im thinking 10years. The general masses have no use for it.