No sellers have gone anywhere, they are ALL just waiting to jump right back in once BTC starts going up again. In addition to them, you have a huge number of new and large investors coming in including many institutionals. This is ONLY the beginning for BTC and YES you are right that they needed the price low to stock up on crypto before they unleashed the futures trading. I expect by end of July or August we will be back above $10k.
RE: Bitcoin Futures and Bitcoin Consolidation