"Just" need the btc reversal though I think that is the biggest problem of them all for now to see significant price gains for any coin.
Once coinbase startes etc, expect the price to grow slowly
Already ETC is a top volume coin... no one says it, but etc has more volume than several other hype coins
Volume shows its potential
I don't know if it will happen as you say. A lot of those expectations are already priced in. People know it will be on Coinbase so they make their decisions in regards to the price right now and not on the day trading starts.
What makes you say something like "it can only go up from here"? There is a lot of room to go down also and we have seen that in the past 6 months.
I also think that we still in a downtrend and this everything went slithly up just becuase everything was oversold. I hope to be wrong of course but imo everything still bearish