I also think that the price of Bitcoin may be difficult to break through $9,000 because there is a clear lack of purchasing power in the market, and sellers are always higher than buyers. This is very bad, isn't it?
Obviously, it there's no demand, then the price could stagnant from some time or even goes down, basic law of supply and demand.
And if bitcoin won't break $9k this year, I guess that we need to satisfy with the price now and we need to try to make a profit from the altcoin. I think we can still make a profit because in the cryptocurrency we have many options to trade and we can choose more than five coins to make the profit. But yes, it will be difficult to analyze every coin now because they don't move to the higher price in short time and we need to analyze deeply, and I think this can make our skills will improve.
How can you make profits from altcoins when it suffered worst than bitcoin. Of course we can still profit in this bear market, it really depends on your trading style and strategy. That's why I believed that whales and speculators are what's left and they're using bots more than ever. The money is still on the bitcoin market though, and those who have dumped Ethereum for example has shift their funds to the ecosystem because they now that altcoins will continue its downward spiral (if you're smart investors).