The market cap has slowly been growing over the weekend putting us almost back at $600 billion. This is also evident by a lot of coins starting to move again after being relatively stagnant for the last few days. The big test of this will take place early in the week as many investors return to work. Personally I would like to see over $50 billion in 24 hour volume and around $620 billion in order to be satisfied that we are starting to move in the right direction. Around mid Feb I would also expect to see another $200 billion start coming in as the Asian markets return from vacation and start to reinvest.
This means that for those of us who have been hodling and swing trading their hodl's, we might actually start being able to cash in on our investments a little bit. At the very least we should be able to start trading again and seeing some nice gains like we were prior to about 3 weeks ago.