Personally, I have learnt to apply DCA in managing my portfolio as I am strongly bullish considering the lineup of events from next year onward.
It’s the typical pattern for trading since dump represents take profit from traders who purchase lower including those who cutloss. There’s no continuous upward pattern because it will only create a bubble that will popup eventually. Price dip is always almost equal to the price pump so expect a strong dump whenever there’s a strong market hype because people will surely take profit since we are all trading for profit here.
12K is still possible since those institutional investors that holding huge chunk of Bitcoin has time limit since they have investors to be paid. Price can go down way below once they decided to cutloss which I believe very low chance to happened right now but there’s always a possibility.