Experts were wrong last year, Bitcoin outperformed; so far this year they have also been wrong, Bitcoin is under-performing.
Trading remains volatile, the advice has always been to trade with caution and not make this so called expert-predictions a basis.
I agree with this, according to the information posted by the OP the panel of experts still think that bitcoin can reach 18k, I'm not so sure in what kind of data they are basing their predictions, they still seem to be incredibly bullish to think we can get that close to the all time high, even if the predictions come true it is my opinion people need to assume this year is going to be terrible for cryptocurrencies and act accordingly, that is way better than to wait for a bull market that may never come in this year.