The reason behind all of this downturn it's because most traders and long term holders begun to take their best opportunity to enjoy all the gains they had.
Market normally changes from time to time, so if you're taking a deep breath for so many months don't ever be greed because you might end up losing many times.
Basically, those many factors that affected the price to go down was such a huge opportunity for everybody who wanted to take another entry point every now and then.
Another reason is simply that traders are not going to waste their time buying an asset that is not moving as much, as a lower level of volatility plays against them even if they decide to use leverage.
So the lack of growth we have seen during the last days and the small corrections we have seen play against bitcoin, however it is finally December and the expectations for what we could see during this month are high, and those expectations could be more than enough to make the market to go up in a significant manner as traders comeback to the market trying to take advantage of the potential increase on the price.