I think that you need a phase of a stable market or a sideways market before the price start climbing again. I am not an experienced trader but so far i have already experienced a few bull and also a few bear markets. Usually the first asset that begins to increase in value at the beginning of a bear market is Bitcoin, because it is still the lead indicator for the whole crypto market even today with so many other projects around. Then after a few weeks or so of constantly rising prices the bigger altcoins also begin to rise in price while bitcoin stays relatively stable then and even after that also the smaller cap altcoins start to rise.