New buyers will enter before the fork to get 2x coins and avoid the burden of deciding which coin to hold.

These new prefork buyers are guaranteed to hold through the fork (~Nov 16) come what may.

Friday, Nov 10 is a bank holiday.

Bitcoin dumps love long weekends. 3 days during which bank deposits cannot come through to provide buy pressure.

Long through this week, then looking for a massive retrace starting on Thursday, Nov 9 that will trap new buyers and expel weak hands. Whales will re-enter for their prefork coins sometime shortly before the 2x fork.

Sounds logic. I expect a drop before S2X for the following other reason as well:

- Massive profits have been accumulated and conservative, larger longs will want to book the profit before uncertainty kicks in with S2X - underweight
- Volatility will increase which will force a lot of FUD fires sales and weak hand actions from new high street fiat money

If that plays out - you're a genius.
And that scenario is well deserved, I pray it happens!
All that greedy pig-like behavior of panic buying non stop in crazy rising rates, thinking bitcoin will go up in a linear line with no major correction...
It screams for an unexpected big nasty crush, to make the piggy buyers - panic sell and lose their money to the whales.
I haven't seen such a greed-rush in my life.