During time of weekends, holidays, there will be less orders in order books and market trading volume will be smaller. It gives whales good chances to manipulate the market.

I don't know they will dump the market around this Christmas and New Year holidays or will pump it, we soon will know.

Bitcoin Spot ETF applications soon will get a final decision from SEC in next 2 weeks. If they approve, Bitcoin will be pumped a lot but if they reject all Bitcoin Spot ETF applications, you know how the market will react.

But a more important point is Bitcoin halving will happen in April 2024, even if SEC. refuse all Bitcoin Spot ETF applications, 4 more months will be enough for Bitcoin to recover.

A chart on X from BTC_Archive.
Think wider and bigger, think out of the Christmas Eve and Christmas Box, like look at Yearly candles will help you to have a merry Christmas and a happy new year, then you can hold your bitcoin and get profit after holidays.
https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/stats/yearly-candles/

Well, that's expected. People are spending their time with family instead of crypto trading. And a lot of people sell their coins to purchase gifts, I'm sure of it.

You are right about not full story from the chart on Bitcoin market growth over years but I think it does a good job to show Bitcoin price growth over years, even not with full details.

It will be endless argument like even a monthly, yearly chart over years won't be enough to display full details. People can argue to have 1 minute chart to see more details but please don't think I am writing this to argue with you.

It is only to explain that the chart from BTC_Archive is good enough to give us a view with a big picture.

Something is more helpful but not full details about the market.
https://casebitcoin.com/charts#data_tables

This part is quite easy to understand why this is so. It slows down because people are confused and currently many people need faster payments while still in the festive period and the New Year moment and have to look for brokers who offer urgent settlement options for fast transfers as late as we can wait until the next 1 working days.

What is the drive to Bitcoin? A lot of person are positive about the ETF and also Halving by the side. Notwithstanding the decrement you are seeing is for a short term as the market is finding a resting position before it takes another major move.

Not only during the Christmas period, there is a decrease in prices in Consumer Behavior, this is also seen during holidays, especially Saturdays and Sundays. Some of them will sell a number of bitcoins to meet their shopping needs and enjoy a relaxing week with family and friends, although on the other hand it also has an impact on the market, causing a little pressure and I think currently this is not too much of a problem if we pay attention.

For long-term purchases, a decline is a good decision, but we have to make sure by looking at the existing data so that when we buy there won't be another decline after the decline with tips, combining several tools will give us the best signal with less risk. This means that we will easily know the direction of the next market trend and prepare to accumulate it again.

I don't think that 7 days is enough to evaluate the price and comparison will come
 because there is a need for certain time to make it successful in having a list,

and besides it is normal for the market to drop in the early end of December because
the season is ending so as the investors are taking their profits at least for a year , but what is
important is that we have mostly climbing from October to December things that we must be
thankful then.

Christmas is when people go with holidays, hang out with friends, meet their family members and it's special time each year. They will be less actively on cryptocurrency market even they can do it with mobile devices and Internet connection.

Whales and market makers will take advantage of Christmas and other holidays to dump the market. Usually they will go dumping the market than pumping it but this year is special and it raises a very uncertain big question.

Will the market be dumped or will it be pumped because of SEC decision on Bitcoin Spot ETF applications in next 2 weeks?

If it is in another year, I bet on dump but this year, even I think there are many reasons for Bitcoin to be dumped, SEC decision is a big uncertainty.

Thanks for sharing the stats but what is the source of these stats, did you take them from some site if yes then please mention the reference as well for authenticity or did you calculate them manually?

I was also thinking/observing that in the Christmas market can fluctuate under the shadow of current sentiments about ETF's results being announced on 10th January. I concluded that the market will be very volatile in the first days of January. And besides all that, I all thought the market might be highly volatile in the last 10 days of December but so far it is doing good and keeping the support of $43k.

You provided stats, showing a pattern that is very easy to detect and that is, in 2017 the price increased and after then for two years it decreased and then it increased in 2020 and it then decreased for the next two years and now the third year 2023 it might increase as per pattern. And the funny thing is price is increasing and not following the previous two years's trend or average trend either.