To my understanding by the end of this year, steem price would climb over 10 dollar mark. I am not exactly confident about what the upper limit would be but it would cross the minimum ten dollar mark.
There are a number of reasons for this and the most obvious one is that I think that the whole market is going to go in a generally favorable direction from August. The bulls look poised to take control of the market and obviously Steem will benefit from that.
But what would really push the price past 10 dollar mark would be the SMT's. I think that they have been delayed a lot and its almost time to hear some major announcements about them. We will start seeing the rising prices, soon after we get the definitive updates on SMT's and I think that could happen before the end of 2018.