the thing about the current price is that you can't really predict it at all. for the time being it is only the short term traders that are controlling things while everyone else is staying out watching then go from $6k to $7k and back for example. predicting it is a fools errand.
the future trend in my opinion will be a stable price like this with slow rise which will take a long time. this can only change if a big FUD comes out like 2015's Mike Hearn leaving and calling bitcoin dead to crash it below $300 again. otherwise there is no reason for any drop or rise to break any kind of support or resistances.
They just add fuel to the fire whichever way the market is going, if the market is down then it's "Bitcoin's Month from Hell!" or "Is Bitcoin Dead?".
yeah, this is what i have also noticed and it is not just CNBC, it seems like it is a very popular approach. they don't predict/speculate anything! instead they just go with the flow...
Actually, a "Mike Hearn FUD+ragequit selling" event would be great. That would be the type of event that rules out any doubt of the bear market ending or not. It's a very typical way in which markets bottom. Someone that has certain notoriety within the asset ragequits, the price dips hard, and then that's it, you can be pretty sure we bottomed.
I would love to see someone like Mike Novogratz dump and call Bitcoin dead. It doesn't need to be a developer, just someone with some sort following or known to hold a big position. The Winklevii would do tho. On the tech side, someone like Roger Ver, Cobra, some Core dev... I think that would do to kill all the noobs in one shoot so we can buy some cheap coins.