I attribute the current downfall to three reasons:
1) China market uncertainty related to future of Bitcoin Exchanges
2) People selling coins after reaching $5000 mark to rake in profits.
3) JP Morgan's CEO statement against Bitcoin.
This is just a above average Technical pull-down situation. The value will again go up once people start buying more.
Why can't it be a perfectly normal correction instead of external statements affecting this market? It's option (2) that I deem to be a realistic reflection of what is currently happening.
People kept hodling on to their coins for quite a long time (much longer than I was expecting), which has greatly contributed towards reaching the $5000 mark this month ~ people are in the game to make profit after all.
If one doesn't cash out, there will be no profits. I am quite confident that the $3000 mark will form a rock solid bottom. Considering what we have gone through, seeing sub $3000 levels is like the market being oversold.
I will use this opportunity to buy myself a whole lot of more coins the lower it keeps falling. My next buying target sits below the $3500 mark ~ currently the price went down all the way to $3620 on Bitstamp.