My mystical chart has BTC breaking upward mid September. XMR seems as always to be a wild card, but its due to take a bigger chunk out of BTC. Overdue, methinks.
Good call, explorer, better than mine. I expected a positive move, too - but I was over-optimistic about the Bitcoin price bouncing back and Monero riding that well. Your 'mid September' prediction has aged rather well.
Well, it did break upward, however BTC still down $1000 from when I posted that

Still time though. I will allow the rest of the week to be 'mid September'. XMR about level in USD, but looking good with a strong run above 0.008 BTC.
It's still kind of subtle, but the price action on gently rising volume is encouraging me. And I do feel like XMR is looking a little more healthy than all of the yoyo shitcoins.

Prediction for this year?
Oh I am very bad at that sort of thing, but I will give a probable range for fun.
I would say Santa will likely bring us something between .009 and .013.
This is my conservative estimate, and I sort of hope it's right because:
If we are back down near -008 we are rangebound and if we are over .015 we are possibly going parabolic, and early IMHO.
That said, I base this off the idea that XMR is a proven old school alt that is therefor less likely to have a massive move up, but I also could see XMR decoupling from the momentum BTC has by either:
- being part of a quality alt "altseason"
- being recognized specifically as the state of the art privacy coin (finally)
In those cases we could see BTC prices that try to revisit the .03x mark. But I see this as a remote chance by the end of the year.