I was hoping to see IOTA touch at least the $6 mark, but the controversy surrounding thew issue of its partnership with Microsoft played a huge role.
BTC is rising and the way it is impacting on the alts prices is something which has happened before. All of the alts are falling when BTC goes up, and when it is coming a bit down, alts are not recovering as much.
BTC rise is always followed by a correction. Any trader who has been around for more than 6 months knows that. If that correction occurs very fast, then exchanges sell their own alt coins holdings to maintain a cash flow. This can sometimes lead to a chain reaction of stop loss sell orders being filled. Be careful with this.
The base price of IOTA will be determined by how low BTC price will go. I have a figure in mind, but I am not comfortable sharing it here.
Regardless of how low IOTA goes, it has a future and it will come back 10x stronger and faster this time.