it makes a sense as long as you can hold it for a while, cryptocurrency's logic is you will not lose anything if you do not sell it cheaper from where you bought it before.
if we are talking about peoples speculation about Bitcoin and other alts right now, they are expecting another down in a few days or weeks before the end of the year.
usually when it comes to holiday, the price always gets dumped. just like before, but let's hope that we will not see any of this again in the future because the chart will look so terribly ugly from this point if this down happens again.