There is a lot of resistance currently at 9k as many have their sell orders set at this point. Bitcoin ha actually touched 9k for a short period of time before the sell orders brought it back down. As long as it keeps this pace there should be no doubt that a bull market is in the near future.
price has already gone up above $9k twice testing the resistance and the "back down" that you are talking about is only a small drop of 2% which is literary nothing when it comes to bitcoin fluctuations. so you can't say there is a "lot of" resistance there because this price was just reached and you can't expect it to be broken just like that.
we are on a slow rise instead of having a huge bull market where price goes up ridiculously fast ever day.