January 1 is when the yearly $50,000 limit that the Chinese government permits citizens as the amount of money individuals can move out of the country in a year comes to effect. This measure enables many Chinese to pull their money out of China.
http://news.8btc.com/will-chinas-50000-quota-matter-for-bitcoin-after-jan-1
If enough FUD is raised it will effect newbies china and elsewhere...till they figure out otherwise after a bit of time.thus probably price will take a hit...
there will be a backlash of FUD on BTC rise...wait for it...it may just be noise and not really be 'workable' etc...but will effect newbies like panic'd newts and thus
volume and price....there are too many 'vested interests' with money connections for them just to see BTC run over their traditional investments etc without
throwing up a big stink in the press etc
Gonna be like smashing Jello with a hammer ...great fun for the FUD'ers ...but end result is NO Jello to eat.(BTC)..and big mess to clean up ....on top of looking silly doing it
after the fact. Especially if/when the price continues to rise and such.