There were plenty of speculations in January, when all was rosy. But even in the bear market, many still had the believe that we would see 50,000, some 20,000 and some said 5,000 but here we are at 3787 close to the end of December.
The whales won the market,they have won huge amount of money in 2018 by hyping the cryptos too much in 2017 so now the recovery phase will get started and it looks like we are already in maybe the prices of $20K or $50 even $100K will possible in the next run.