It depends on 2 premises in my book:
1) Lack of forks: If people stop trying to hardfork Bitcoin controvensial ways, such as the Segwit2x attempt, or former attempts such as Bitcoin Unlimited and so on... we will get rid of a strong charge of useless FUD.
2) Lightning network becoming operative: This would solve the complains of slow and expensive transactions once and for all.
So given that we get these 2 points meet, we are going to hit $30k+ somewhere in 2018.
The fork craze hasn't even started. If we look how easy it is for entities to book massive instant profits without much effort, and the demand coming from people related to this entire industry, it will translate into many more forks.
This however isn't really a negative aspect, unless an economical majority manages to come up with a fork similar to S2X, but that's not likely since even when an agreement has been signed, it still means nothing as we have seen.
Regarding OP ~ I voted for $18-$30k since I am aiming at a top of $25,000 to be reached next year. It will likely settle at lower levels, but still far higher than the levels we are hovering over right now.
the "The fork craze" is two different kinds of fork from what i have seen.
1. those like SegWit2x and BCH which are supposed to be a scaling solution for bitcoin and get some support like S2X and its 90% miner support.
these can cause problems as long as there is a risk of bitcoin splitting into two chains.
2. the bullshit forks such as bitcion gold, silver, diamond,... which nobody even knows about and just do an airdrop to die a couple of months later.
most of these won't even be listed on most exchanges. running a node for these is impossible for an exchange! each one these will take a lot of resources...
these won't cause much issues, they just give some free money for a while before it all stops.
