Ahh, its not that rough ride made. Actually with smart investment and methods you could have earned bigger profits and wouldn't be arguing about the roughness of the market. Its simple that bitcoin fluctuated from 12k to 5K and now it is again regaining the dominance. This means you would have earned profits if you bought at the bottom and sold at current high. Now the bitcoin is dropping one more time and its time to buy and wait for the another hike. If you do that then surely you could earn profits rather than loosing something.
Now Bitcoin's dominance is about 48%, as in September 2017, then the cost was 4K Market Cap - 140 billion dollars.
At the moment, the 7.5K Market Cap - 270 billion dollars.
Given this, i can say for sure that nothing has changed, market capitalization has increased, but this does not mean that there will be demand, only market manipulation.
I think 10K by the end of the year is the maximum.