If you're holding your own keys and not allowing exchanges to hold your coins, then you can end up with more coins. The fork of BCH at the beginning of August was more like a stock split, FUD in July but went sky high thereafter.
The overall trend is unmistakable, one of these cryptocurrencies will become the next Google of finance. When the lightning network comes online, transaction speeds will increase and then Visa / MC will have serious competition.
This will cause an equity leak in the USD and other national fiats which could cause government decrees for the criminalization of these alternate forms of payment. When this happens, you want to have your 12 - 24 word seed in your head and a hardware wallet.
RE: Bitcoin gold Fork