Well now that Bancor already have their first smart token ICO
https://www.stox.com
Its gonna be a huge project, and stox will be using Bancor platform with BNT as a reserve.
This will boost bncor price even more with the addition of the bnt in stox
Token Generation Event will be on 2/8/17 UTC 1400
https://twitter.com/stx_coin
I suspect that the Stox ICO is probably the reason of the price's recovery. People start to invest now thinking at the fact that Stox WILL HAVE to buy BNT to build its reserve and therefore BNT's price WILL HAVE to rise (BNT price rises everytime someone creates token for making a reserve) and so price is already rising. Just like Ether's price rose dramatically before Bancor's ICo because people needed Eth for buying BNT.
This being said, you can start to imagine what will happen with the price when many other coins will start to build their reserves with Bancor.
And if you have just a bit more of imagination, you can also start to imagine what will happen with the price if all other other coins would start to build their reserves with Bancor, once it becomes the new standard of the industry.
This is how you lose money.