The price is currently trading around $23.5k. It might continue till $24k but I am not sure if we will continue to $25k and beyond as this was the hardest zone that BTC is trying to break so far. I will only be confident that $30k is possible once we reached or pass $25k barrier. Speculations will likely happen if we will also follow it with an action. Say if we speculate the price to go up, that is possible if we will also buy more and then HODL.
Why are you not sure Bitcoin to continue to $25k? I think it is not impossible to reach in Q1, the trend has changed. If you saw it was difficult to achieve in 2022, it was because too many FUDs or bad news at that time. Now, in 2023, we have passed the phase of most severe decline. More positive news are coming in this year, it will trigger the Bitcoin price to continue raising. Sure, to reach $30k, we must pass $25k first. Q1 may be the time to reach $25k and $30k may be achieved in Q2 of this year.
There are times that they are accurate but then the price intentionally move on to another direction due to manipulation so we must be careful to not caught out by the trap prepared by the whales.
Something like this is always possible to happen. But those whales also want profits, they won't buy at the whole of time. Since they already filled their bags fully in 2022, they must support the Bitcoin increases gradually from 2023 to the bullrun season (2024-2025). The whales must have the same hope that to gain huge profits in the bullrun seasons as much as possible.