Bitcoin always affects all its altcoins about the prediction of its price. Big possibilities is there as when you see the graph every year January is the most predicted month but always recover in March. Its the best time for buying this coin its still cheap as you remember from the price last year. Also no reason for this coin not to recover its price.
Its look like a pattern of bitcoin from 2015 to 2017 based on the chart in coinmarketcap but look like this january 2018 bitcoin have a lot of bad news happen that affect to most altcoin and bitcoin to be down but actually its so hard to know what will happen to bitcoin price there will be most event happen this year.