Look at the last year chart and you will know what the Chinese usually do in Lunar new year. It is obviously that most of them will sell their Bitcoin in order to prepare for this holiday and it will make the Bitcoin prices even lower. However, after this event, those Chinese will return to their previous path and buy back some Bitcoin, this will make the Bitcoin prices skyrocket. I believe so
Last year the chinese New Year was on Feb 8th and I don't really see any big change in the graph.
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And also the year before nothing dramatic has happened around Feb 19th, which was chinese New Year of 2015.
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Yes, we can maybe see a little bump before the dates, but it's almost unnoticable.
And if you look on whole year graph, you can see that much much bigger impact was made by Cristmas for example.