I have noticed looking back over the statistics through the years that between Jan - March there has been a genuine downturn trend in the crypto markets. We have already had Chinese New Year and multiple hack attempts at such exchanges at Binance, is this the current status-quo now? Will Crypto markets never see the highs of December 2017? My question to my fellow community members is as follows:

When will we see the next surge? Is now the time to buy into alts, BTC and ETH? Are there any indicators such as Hard Forks or new legislation coming in that will transcend Crypto to new heights or back to old lows?
 

I've been thinking with the huge amount of new ALTS coming into the market and quite a few making it onto exchanges will it bow become harder for us in the crypto community to sell our coins when the public will be so distracted with so many other ICO's in the domain?

With the price of bitcoin fluctuating at an unstable rate in the last few months, is it now time to look at new emerging currencies to start investing and holding value in?

I personally have started to look into buying other crypto, any advise as to where to look and what the future of the up and coming currencies will be?