Your choice of word amuses me. I guess the word/s you're looking for is all-time high or previous record. Anyway, to answer your question...Yes! I think it would reach five figures before the end of the year.
After the segwit2x cancellation I feel pretty confident that we are going to $10,000+ within 2018, but im not sure about 2017 hitting 5 figures. It's still to early to tell. An all time high is perfectly possible, but the resistance before 5 figures, I guess it will be pretty to break, it is a very signification number, rounded, and an increase in figures... it is an epic milestone in bitcoin's price. It either falls to break it and we must wait until 2018, or it breaks it and goes to the moon. Nothing in between.
Maybe I’m mistaken but the lowest 5 figure number that exits is 10,000 I think that is what he is referring to when he says we are going to reach 5 figures, after all I do not think anyone here in the forum thinks bitcoin is going to jump to 99,999 in less than two months.
Now, I think bitcoin could reach 10,000 before the end of the year thanks to CME and their bitcoin future contracts that are going to attract a lot of investors.