I think if we look at higher lows since october 2015 we can clearly see slow and steady rise in bitcoins value. Market is very calm those days but overall prediction is long. I think at January 2016 we can expect price 480-500 according to this steady appreciation. If you are interested in buying bitcoin, you can do it for sure on bitstamp.net or at eToro ( http://trade-test.com/etoro-review-2016-opinions ) as they have introducet bitcoin trading lately and have very good conditions for it. If you are smaller investor, it is even cheaper to trade at eToro than using Bitstamp.net. Bitstamp is only cheaper if you have already some volume discounts.. if you have standard 0.25% commission account, then trust me, eToro is cheaper. I have switched to this platform personally because of BTC trading. Tell me what do you think about bitcoin prediction for 2016, do you have same opinion on it?