To be honest, even the small price rises fail very quickly and bitcoin returns to levels little above $6000. The domination here is still fear and negativism. The market is down and we need really good news to bring investors trust back.
Well, investors will always come back since the market is still speculation driven anyway and once we see some slight move in the market, we all know how sentiments change pretty fast for a whole lot of people in that aspect. For bitcoin however, I absolutely do not believe we will see any serious bull run this year.
Although, we may get to see a little bit of uptrend and there is no doubt about that, but at the end of it all, it may not be something pretty much to expect in terms of a huge move. We are still in a bear year and there is more room to go down and before I may even start considering something huge at all for bitcoin, which would be next year or 2020.