Any rise before that is a pump'n'dump.
Bitcoin is being artificially and possibly intentionally limited by both the community and developers.
My guess is that the government and banks involvement with Bitcoin is far greater than we could have ever imagined. I guess we will see if this is the case depending on weather or not these core problems get resolved.
I think the big whales want to buy more bitcoins, so they work with the Core team to suppress the price.
Maybe there are no big whales, it is just the normal price action of the bitcoin in a trading market.