If you have not figured it out yet, the same players that control the dollar denominated markets control the crypto markets as well. They won't have it any other way.
There will be no bull market until one of two things happens:
1.) The controllers determine based on sentiment it is time again to let the market swoon. These artificial bumps (like early 2018) happen deliberately and are coordinated to maximize the fleecing and to further erode confidence in crypto (blackwash.)
2.) The money men overplay their hand and lose control of the markets to cause a world-wide panic into safe haven assets. Gold, silver, and crypto. There will be blood on the streets when this scenario happens.
Trying to guess when the next bull market will come is like wearing a bandana in the dark and trying to throw darts at a board from 25 feet after being spun around 10 times....nearly impossible.