I bought bitcoin when it was around $14,500 in January and I am still holding because I am not discouraged. I have great hope that bitcoin is going to increase in price and volume in some years to come.
You were too high. And it takes a lot of time for you to make a profit. In 2018 we can not see a bitcoin price higher than 8000$ in the current market. At least we need to wait until the middle or late 2019. To the market can return to the game
It might take too long for now to recover however market is indeed unpredictable so we'll never know where this will take us. Last year's speculation was just around $10k yet it reached $20k and it's beyond from what we think. So yeah these faith and hopes are the ones that keep us running that these tough time will be over and the price will skyrocket sooner.
When everyone was expecting to have bitcoin prices to reach $10k levels by end of 2017, it reach double that expected price and one month before itself. Similar why not we expect prices to again touch that $20k in coming months ? I agree it may take more time to recover and then to touch but it will surely do. All we do need to do right now is, just keep holding our bitcoins and then we may see prices will be testing the unbelievable levels of $40k also before end of 2019.