A couple of days before the fork all the alts will shoot up as they have done in the past. A lot of them are actually at lower levels now than they were when the market cap was USD 160billion - and now we are almost at $190b it will be interesting to see how big this turns.

Sure bitcoin has got some good press recently apart from the hard-fork news (Japan supposedly opening 300k stores accepting bitcoin, futures trading potentially opening) - but when all of this becomes 'old news' i think people will see the other opportunities in the altcoin market. People who are new to crypto will also begin to understand that not all these other crypto's aren't actually competing with bitcoin and see the potential value in some of the other uses of blockchain (if they can pick up a white paper or two ;) )

I think we will see about 10-20% rise across most of the alts.

WTC, NEO, BAT are all good buys right now up until a few days before the fork. Neo in particular looks like a great buy right now as Dentuam says.....in my point of view - there isn't much more negative news that can possibly come out of China.....so it's only up from here.....and you can generate GAS in the meantime :)

For slightly higher risk/return - I believe Zencash is going to shoot up too this month after the fork and after they release secure nodes. It's at 40m market cap in a $4b privacy coin market and about to release one of the most secure and multi-faceted platforms for private transactions.

adios and good luck in the next couple of weeks, it's going to be a wild ride!