I think we are close but we must wait for at least 6 months and it will be because of the recent halving event. However, the price might drop significantly after we touch $1000 and might again come back to normal because of panic selling
I'm personally thinking that it'll probably take closer to a year to hit $1,000 again, but I could be wrong. Just considering we got out of the halving upswing (which occurred over a few months) and we have a bear run going, 6 months might be a bit too short of a time period. I'm thinking that we can hit $800 by the end of 2017, but I can't guarantee anything.
No body can guarantee what will be the price of bitcoin at any point of time even the experts.But yes we can all predict and give our opinions and i am thinking a bit ahead i think we can see bitcoin price to reach the 1000$ in the year 2017 may be till the end of it .
Lets see what happens but right now i am only focused on what changes we may see in next few months.