BCH is an altcoin.
It's an altcoin. It's a fucking altcoin. It's not Bitcoin. BCH is an ALTCOIN.
We don't talk altcoins here, since this is a Bitcoin speculation forum. Here's where you need to be:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0
I agree that BCH is an altcoin. But to be fair, discussion of how the BCH situation affects BTC price action is appropriate here. If you line one chart up over the other, both assets go through periods of very clear positive correlation and very clear negative correlation. There are fundamental reasons for this. Hell, Roger Ver was found to be literally sending tens of thousands of BTC to Bitfinex during the BCH pump a few days ago. It's no surprise that BTC price was being suppressed, not unlike the bearwhale of 2014.
I think anyone that's ignoring BCH with regard to BTC price is ignoring vital market information that every BTC trader should be leveraging.