Ethereum (ETH) All Set To Test 200 Day EMA Against Bitcoin (BTC)

Ethereum (ETH) All Set To Test 200 Day EMA Against Bitcoin (BTC)

Ethereum (ETH) broke past the 38.2% fib retracement level against Bitcoin (BTC) and is now ready to test the 200-day EMA. We can see on the daily chart for ETH/BTC that the pair had already been trading above the 200-day moving average but now it wants to test the 200-day exponential moving average. We can also see how the pair turned quite bullish soon as it broke the recent fib ring. That being said, the price is not expected to rally much higher once it has tested the 200-day EMA. Ethereum (ETH) has outpaced Bitcoin (BTC) for the day but this trend is not likely to last for long. 

The daily chart for ETH/BTC shows the price struggling to break effectively past the 200-day moving average since 2019. It did end up closing above the 200-day moving average multiple times but there was no follow through and it ended up declining lower in the days and weeks that followed. It would not be surprising to see something like that happen again but it would be very significant for that to happen before halving not because of the technicals but because many retail traders do not expect this at all. At this point, the idea of the market declining further sounds absurd to the majority of them as they consider it to be an argument from those who missed the bottom and are thus bearishly biased thinking the market could go down before the upcoming halving. 

As mentioned before in some of our analyses, Ethereum (ETH) stands to lose a lot more before halving for a number of reasons. First of all, we could see it decline below the 200-day moving average to begin its downtrend same as Bitcoin (BTC) and the rest of the market. However, when halving gets closer, a lot more people would want to trade altcoins like Ethereum (ETH) for Bitcoin (BTC) hoping that they would profit off the halving rally. 

The end result of all that would be exactly what we have seen before. The daily chart for ETH/USD outlines quite clearly what happened in April, 2018 when traders were expecting the beginning of a new bullish cycle. The price had also been trading above the 200-day moving average back then and many of the ‘analysts’ in this market were portraying it as the beginning of a bullish cycle because the 200-day moving average was broken and the market had pumped up so much. This is why it is important to keep it simple and to wait for a confirmation rather than being carried away by sentiment or thoughts like “how good of a project Ethereum (ETH) is” and “everyone would want to buy at such low prices”. Just because things are bad, does not mean that they cannot get worse. 



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