I don't much interested about the fourth quarter of this year because I believe that there will be nothing new is going to happen in the remaining days of this year but I hope this is the flat market days expected to have more investors when it has enough stability on the prices for a while now at that time the bull run will begin and will go for another new all time high and the cycle will keep repeat N number of times.
A lot of things can happen in 90 days. Maybe history will repeat itself? The unexpected bull just like what happened last year December.

Don't expect to happen again and again because 2017 was one of the great year for the cryptos and much more positive news about cryptos were spreading at the time but now everything is in opposite for it,even the bitcointalk has less traffic.
The market is uncertain and unpredictable. But there has been nothing in the past few weeks to suggest that the market would recover in the final quarter of the year.
This period in the year usually leads to market pumps but with pending decision regarding bitcoin ETF and increased restrictions in some countries this year might be different.
ETF decision won't affect bitcoin value that much. There are still lots of die hard bitcoin supporters lurking in the shadows who believes in the technology. The bitcoin community won't just let bitcoin go down the drain cos of ETF decision being turned down.
ETF decision will have affect tho,but it will be just temporary since as you said there are lot of bitcoin supporters holding it since the bear market began.