Indeed it is. First time above 16$ as we speak. (Based on BITREX: STRATUSD charts)

Curious to what near future brings us.
On the one hand short term, especially coming two weeks leading into Q1 '18.
And "longterm" speaking end of '18.

I'm finding it difficult to estimate an outcome given the circumstances, flexibility and volatility of the market...
If the bitcoin drop earlier this week did not take place we might have been talking about 20$ charts...
Anyhow I feel there is still a chance we might have the change this year. If we summarize roughly it's currently growing around a dollar a day..

I'm hoping to notice a growth as Ethereum did early March '17 (15$) up to May '17 (90$). Not sure if we might expect a growth pattern as in June '17 (300+$)..
Cryptomarket changed a lot since last year and got way more mature. As a reminder: market cap was only 16 bilion back then (Jan '17).