Okay, so in the polo trollbox and other places, the question often arises "why is XMR price rising". Here are some possibilities in no particular order

XMR provides a valuable service (cryptographically secure private transactions)
active core development
active ecosystem development (openalias)
people that hear about DASH also hear about XMR and decide to buy XMR instead
XMR.to allows you to use XMR wherever XBT (BTC) is accepted
active community (close to instantaneous responses on forums and IRC)
Major XBT market maker said "xmr will now start rising"
Recent bitcoin fungibility problem awareness
XMR is undervalued
XMR was artificially undervalued due to BCX attack threat circa 10/2014
Staying power - been around for almost a year (birthday less than 1 month away)
Large consistent market volume
The longest and slowest pump 'n dump is underway (price has been rising for a month)
I think we're exiting the most linear phase of the ~4 year emission curve - already a 3rd (6 million) of available coins have been emitted



false reasons XMR price is rising:
XMR devs convincing people to buy monero: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/583449.msg10893672#msg10893672
Monero is a taco


any other things to add to the list?

Short squeeze

Monero could have been a taco. Sadly, tacotime was opposed to calling Monero's smallest unit a tacoshi (a la satoshi for 1e-8 BTC). A bold opportunity lost.

So you are basically predicting a significiant drop in the price growth rate?
Currently the situation is, it is building up a nice support at 0.003. It did it in a few months from 0.001 support levels.
To build up a support to 0.005 requires ~ 70 % rise from the current support line and the time zone you are predicting is 3 months..
I would say 0.005 is pretty realistic support line on Monero's first anniversary (or close to this date) and 0.01 can be a support line on 30.06.2015.

Actually given the increase in awarness even higher support level is possible on 30.06.2015. The price growth attracts new people who are competing the scarcer and scarcer coins.

Yes, everything is speculation except the reality.
I do not believe the price will grow the same rate neither.
That being said, I do not believe the growth rate will drop significiantly just yet.
The larger drops in growth rates enters when the price goes to some serous numbers (such as 10+ usd).
On the other hand, this is speculation which means it can be too optimistic but also too pessimistic.
The future will show. There might be some venture capitilists interested in Monero tech, too.

I think Monero is absorbing slowly slowly Darkcoin community.
We might soon see how the Darkcoin people have joined us.
The war thread perhaps was a good eye opener for many Darkcoin believer, it might have caused some Darkcoin community members to repent and come home to papa.  

I think Monero has its own merits why it is rising.

I have currently no plans to even touch that coin despite it is probably easy to pump.
For Monero it is good that the rest of anon coins have lower marketcap since it brings Monero to the spotlight of anon coins in the eyes of anon virgins.

Do they sell tacos in Canada? i am immigrating soon

Hopefully the 20 BTC floor on 0.003 BTC won't break