The prices went even lower than the last years' dip right before the bull market. However, the BCH hard fork with its Hash Wars doesn't seem to bring any clarity or stability to the market.
So the question is following: would the market still go down or not much more and it would make sense to start shopping?
Well, for those people that needs money, maybe this is a bad year. but for the coin holders/investors, i think this is their year because they will buy the coin cheaper and hold it. They will sell it if the price of it is higher than the price that they bought their coin. Easy profit as usual.