Ethereum Decreases Below Significant Support as Analyst Warns of Lower Prices

Technical analyst and trader @cryptodude suggested that the Ethereum chart has just made a clean break below a support area before validating it as resistance. This suggests that further ETH price decreases are in store.

I've always found $ETH 's price action cleaner than bitcoin's. pic.twitter.com/mfORSlfUy8

— CryptoDude (@cryptodude999) December 2, 2019

Will the Ethereum price head downward or will it initiate an upward move in order to reclaim the support area? Continue reading below in order to find out.

Significant Support for Ethereum

The $160 area acted as resistance in the first part of 2019. The Ethereum price broke out afterward and the area acted as support twice — in October and November. Afterward, the price broke down and validated it as resistance. However, a similarly-failed flip of the support area occurred in May. The Ethereum price broke out before validating the area as support. However, it could not hold the lower levels and immediately moved upward. The Ethereum price would soon have to undergo a similar movement if it wants to reclaim the support area and move towards the resistance line of the channel it has been trading in since July. An interesting observation comes from the RSI. It is currently at 22 and deep into oversold territory. Previously, it reached a similar level in December before creating a bullish divergence — combined with a lower low — before initiating the upward cycle that lasted throughout the first half of 2019. A similar movement would have us making a lower low inside the channel before beginning an upward move. A similar sentiment is given by another technical analyst, @rektcapital, who outlined the importance of the $160 support area.

$ETHUSD – $ETH #ethereum

All the signs were there

And even though the resistance flip wasn't picture-perfect, the sentiment remains the same:

ETHUSD has flipped the bottom of its Weekly $160-$360 into a new resistance and has recently rejected price#Crypto $BTC pic.twitter.com/jRDtSUBMrc

— Rekt Capital (@rektcapital) December 3, 2019

Oversold RSI

The three-day RSI has been deeply oversold only on three occasions. Each time, the low coincided with the bottom before the beginning of the new market cycle. It seems as if December 2018 was that bottom. However, what remains to be seen is if the market cycle ended in June (which would make it very short) or if that was just the first wave and the current movement is a correction. To conclude, while the market movement suggests a bearish outlook for ETH, the RSI in different time-frames warns that the bottom is near. Whether the price reclaims the $160 support area will go a long way in determining whether another upward move is near.

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Disclaimer: This article is not trading advice and should not be construed as such. Always consult a trained financial professional before investing in cryptocurrencies, as the market is particularly volatile.