Right now the general market sentiment is bearish and it is keeping bitcoin at its current levels.

What needs to happen is greater adoption of cryptocurrencies which will lead to more buying activity by new comers and also
existing investors...that will drive up prices of the entire crypto space and also price of bitcoin in general.

$15,000 is not too far from current levels. What we need is for more countries to be like Japan and accept bitcoins and crypto into their economies