Hi newbie here, so it's been a week and prices have been going up and down a little bit at a relatively same rate and not really making any drastic changes. Is this normally how btc price behaves and I'm just a wee bit impatient? Was it just the holidays that caused prices to soar in the last month?
No instrument moves upward only. There will always be a bull and a bear trend. It can even move sideways for a long time if it is consolidating. Do not worry, if it is going down, buy more bitcoin. Then sell when it goes up again.