I've been keeping records of various statistics, including the current value of the BTC and have noticed it steadily declining over the last few weeks. I don't think I've seen it go up once. Does anyone know what's going on? The highest value I have for the BTC is from when I began keeping records, on 6/16/11. Then it was 16.7 USD/BTC. Today, 12.52 
Since I started watching at 2:00, the sun has only gone down. It looks like it is going all the way down. What will the earth do without the sun? /sarcasm
You really need to use a longer history to learn anything about the price of bitcoins. The price is still more than twice as high as when I started watching just a couple months ago.
I found bitcoins when they were trading at about $0.60 USD/BTC. That was only back in March.
IMO we are on a steady, rocketing incline. Up 15 times over the previous 4 months. Woohooooooooooo!!!!!!!!