I hope that next year the price can go to the previous ATH or higher but I only expect to see a price around 10-12k by the end of 2019. I don't think the market will go parabolic yet and many will be very afraid to invest at a price near to the previous ATH because of what happened last time the price reached that level.
This is a good prediction, when I look at the forum I see nothing but some of the weirdest predictions with people predicting that bitcoin is going to reach prices that I know are impossible in that time frame, so reaching a price barely above 10000 is completely possible by the end of 2019 because I am the same as you and I do not expect a big recovery by then.
Interesting input. I wonder, though, if the price of bitcoin increases and stays within the range of $10-12000 by next year, do you think that it will encourage people to join the crypto world, and would companies be enticed to start accepting bitcoins as well?