The price could go higher or lower, it depends on how much people want to speculate right now.

So for two examples.

1 Speculation

If there was a few hundred people buying more Hive because they think the price will go up soon or long term, they buy 25 million HP over the next few weeks and power it up. We still don't have many accounts using the platform, thus the fundamentals of the platform didn't change very much. If a few of these people powerdown and sell at some point(which they will because they are speculators and want to take profits) then we will see the price go down again and NOT stay up. Speculators are interested in profit and they have to take profit at some point, which means selling, which means prices going down.

2 Fundamentals

Say that we have 100,000 people who each buy 250 Hive and power it up, this is because they want to use the network to make posts/comments and interact with people(what we are doing right now). 25 million Hive was bought and powered up in this circumstance, and it will keep the price high for years due to most of these people won't powerdown and sell because they are using the platform.

So in general if we want a high price of Hive for the long term we scenario number 2 to happen. If we want a high price in the short term we want scenario 1.