Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) will extend its 30% slump this year to the lowest price level since July 2021, if a textbook technical indicator plays out.
Ethereum chart paints bearish pattern
ETH’s price fell to its six-month low of $2,159 on Jan. 24, 2022, only to rebound sharply to as high as $2,724 days later. However, this created a so-called “bear flag” chart pattern that suggests the price could drop to $2,000 or a 17% drop from current levels.
A bear flag appears on the chart when the price consolidates higher after a strong momentum downwards but eventually moves further lower after breaking out of the upward range. In doing so, the price tends to drop by as much as the length of the previous decline, called “flagpole.”
In Ether’s case, the flagpole’s height comes to be over $850. That roughly shifts its bear flag price target towards $2,000. Earlier this year, another bear flag formation had resulted in a similar decline, as shown in the chart above.
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The prospect of Ether hitting $2,000 in the coming months increases further due to Bitcoin (BTC) and its vulnerability to macroeconomic trends.
Notably, the positive correlation efficiency between the Ethereum token and Bitcoin has been 0.92 in the past 30 days, according to data from CryptoWatch. In other words, Ether tailed the BTC price trends with a 92% accuracy in January 2022.
At the core of the said bearish outlook is the Federal Reserve’s dovish policy. In detail, the U.S. central bank’s decision to completely withdraw its $120 billion a month Covid-19 stimulus program by early March and to increase benchmark rates from their near-zero levels after that have started hurting the so-called pandemic winners, including tech stocks, gold, and Bitcoin.
Paul Krugman, a Nobel prize-winning economist and a long-term skeptic of cryptocurrencies, envisioned a Bitcoin price crash in 2022, noting that it had “disturbing echoes of the subprime crash” during the 2008 economic crisis.
"Bana sorarsanız, düzenleyiciler subprime'da yaptıkları hatayı yaptılar: Halkı kimsenin anlamadığı finansal ürünlere karşı koruyamadılar ve birçok savunmasız aile bunun bedelini ödeyebilir" diye uyardı.
ETH fiyatı için önce 2,000 dolar mı?
As Ether looks bearish under the shadows of Bitcoin, many analysts anticipate the Ethereum token resume its climb later in 2022, owing to its involvement in the emerging decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible token (NFT) sectors.
Örneğin, milyarder yatırımcı Mark Cuban, geçen yıl Ether'in büyüme açısından Bitcoin'i geçebileceğini belirtti.
Eth/L2'leri daha çok seviyorum ve Trilemma, halving veya enflasyonu tartışmanın bir anlamı yok. Bunu daha çok seviyorum çünkü biz/tüketici dünyasını sonsuza dek değiştirecek sınırsız sayıda uygulama görebiliyorum. Ve bunları kullanmak için Eth/L2 satın almanız gerekir. BTC'nin bu talep çekişi yok
- Mark Cuban (@mcuban) Instagram fotoğrafları ve videoları 17 Ekim 2021
Mike McGlone, the senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, predicted Ether to hit $5,000 in 2022 despite Fed’s tapering policies. The veteran analyst called the central bank’s rate hike plans a “win-win scenario” for Bitcoin and Ether against the U.S.’s four-decade high inflation.
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Nonetheless, McGlone anticipated Ether to hit $2,000 first before continuing its move higher. Notably:
“Merkez bankası kısıtlamasını durdurmak için en büyük güç, kriptolar için etkileri olan borsadaki düşüş […]
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Kaynak: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-price-risks-dropping-to-2k-on-bear-flag-setup