Latest Ethereum price and analysis (ETH to USD)

Ethereum suffered a brief lapse in its recent ascent above $3,000, with a 7.92% sell-off from the historical level of resistance at $3,350.

If the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency can begin to establish support in the $2,900 region, it will likely provide a platform for continuation to the upside over the coming month.

At the time of writing it was trading at $3,060, which is just above the eight-hour 50 exponential moving average.

While Ethereum remains relatively strong on its own merit, its trajectory will depend on the direction of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin has stalled at the $48,000 mark this week with a plunge back to the $44,000 level of support following a period of tremendous upside pressure.

ETHUSD chart by TradingView

If Bitcoin can take out the $48,000 level on significant volume, Ethereum is expected to move up to at least $3,580 in the short term.

However, it’s worth noting that cryptocurrencies often fall victim to corrections of more than 30% regardless of market structure. This is caused by a build up in leveraged positions, in this case long positions.

Open interest on derivative exchanges for Bitcoin has risen from $10.6 billion to $13.8 billion in four weeks, indicating that a large portion of long positions have opened up above the $40,000 level.

It would not be unexpected for a long squeeze to play out, which would, in turn, cause Bitcoin and Ethereum both to slump back towards last month’s lows.

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About Ethereum

Ethereum was launched by Vitalik Buterin on July 30 2015. He was a researcher and programmer working on Bitcoin Magazine and he initially wrote a whitepaper in 2013 describing Ethereum.

Buterin had proposed that Bitcoin needed a scripting language. He decided to develop a new platform with a more general scripting language when he couldn’t get buy in to his proposal.

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