Have you asked this question?, if people already know that price will hit ATH several times after halving, why aren't they buying right now? Answer is really easy, they don't want to risk it, everybody is just waiting for the hype to start so they can ride the waves and earn max profits.
It could also be that people are waiting for deep fall in price first before they would accumulate more bitcoin. Just like how the past histories or trend have shown that bitcoin hits a new ATH like a year after halving so is the case of it getting to lower price before the halving. Some even predicted that the last quarter of this years would experience the price low of about $20k less and some people are actually waiting for the right time.
But waiting for the price to go down before buying isn’t a wise move but rather using the DCA method to accumulate whenever you have the funds ready. This way you don’t get to wait for an opportunity that is not certain of happening.
Many speculate that the price will touch the 17k-20k area before the halving occurs. And this is fine, because the price could move there and we don't know what will happen, considering the wild movements of BTC, this makes sense too.
Buying DCA on the spot market is very effective for current and new traders or potential investors. So even if we buy at the current price and in a week or 2-3 months BTC's price drops it won't be a problem, because we will get the lowest average price too.
For me the predictability is present but what if we're wrong this time and what if we just experience stability in price and not some ATH?
This can be possible considering the events surrounding the price movement of late. I’m the past years the last month August and September are usually filled with red lines but this year’s we experienced something of a stable price with slight movement. So even if the market trend changes a bit after next halving I wouldn’t be too surprised, the only thing is I am hodling till my target gets reached
https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/how-many-bitcoins-are-there/Is the movement of BTC no longer like previous history in the months and years before the halving because Bitcoin has been mined and circulating at 19,513,706.25 or 92,922% of its total supply? So it tends to be stable, and able to make history differently this time? several other factors are also able to influence BTC price movements, for example Bitcoin ETF, War, Economic Crisis, Energy Crisis, Policy, Adoption.