A buddy of mine specializes in packaged tours of Asia. He told me that the Chinese typically travel during the Chinese new year with the heaviest travel days this year leading up to Feb. 18 and then Feb. 23-24, as everyone heads back home. My buddy said that this happens twice a year in China, the other being in October, and it basically makes our Thanksgiving travel in the U.S look puny.
Anyhow, looking at Mr. Spread's posts during the last holiday period in China in early October, he suddenly had many full 1-2 days periods of no posts and even states that he's "quite busy" (https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/715435.msg9073639#msg9073639).
Overall, Mr. Spread disappeared the evening of Feb. 16, didn't give a head's up (he didn't give one either when he 'disappeared' from Sept. 19-24 https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/715435.msg8897282#msg8897282 and then https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/715435.msg8951122#msg8951122 ), and he's likely enroute back to home right now.

Assuming he has been traveling for the holiday, hopefully this 50% price haircut during this past week will make him realize that he should probably give a head's up going forward.

I have another source which was saying the SPR price bottomed 24 hours ago. So that combined with the info from my travel industry buddy and Mr. Spread's previous actions pretty much point to his return shortly.

JL