Chief Market Strategist Watching Possible W-Bottom Formation In Ethereum

Keshav Verma

Last Updated: August 2, 2021 7:00 pm

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According to a chief market strategist, Ethereum could form a possible w-bottom, an indicator that usually suggests a bull market.

Strategist: Ethereum Might Form A “Higher High”

In a call with MarketWatch, Matt Maley has said that ETH could be moving in a bullish direction if certain conditions are met.

Maley is a chief market strategist at Tabak and Co., and during the call with MarketWatch, the strategist has talked about Bitcoin and Ethereum.

According to Maley, the 200 Daily Moving Average (DMA) is an important level, breaking above which would be bullish for the crypto. At the moment, this value is around $2,141, something ETH has already broken.

Ethereum could then go on to break $2,880, the same value as the high from late May-early June, to form an indicator called the “higher high”. The crypto has already formed “double bottoms” and a minor higher high.

ETH only needs to form a more important higher high now. According to Maley, something like this would be “particularly bullish” for the cryptocurrency.

However, one thing to note is that ETH is somewhat overbought right now, based on the Relative Strength Index, which is an indicator that measures the ratio of the recent losses to recent gains.

When ETH is said to be overbought, it means the cryptocurrency is believed to be trading above its fair value. Investors “overbuy” without any investment rationale, and the price goes up. Usually, a phase of overbought is followed by a selling period.

ETH Price

At the time of writing ETH’s price floats around $2.6k, up 12% in the last 7 days. Over the past month, the cryptocurrency has amassed 19% in gains.

Below is a chart that shows the trend in the price of Ethereum over the last 6 months.

ETH continues to enjoy the upwards trend | Source: ETHUSD on TradingView

As the graph shows, the crypto has been on an uptrend since 20 July. On a closer examination of the graph, it becomes apparent that the coin seems to be forming a “W” where the first peak was the earlier mentioned $2,880 point, with the first bottom following soon after in the third part of June.

After that, ETH forms a smaller peak early July, and another bottom on the aforementioned 20 July. Now, if ETH continues to follow the uptrend, it will return to the point of the first peak. This is the important “higher high” that’s needed for a bullish trend.

However, it’s unclear whether Ethereum can break that level as the crypto is slightly overbought right now. The price could go down if investors decide to sell before the higher high is made.

Keshav Verma

Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021.

Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to.

In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career in Physics, but the onset of COVID led to a shift in plans. The virus meant that the college classes had to be delivered in the online-mode and with it came free time for him to explore other passions.

Initially only seeking to make some beer money, Keshav unexpectedly landed clients offering real projects, after which there was no looking back. Writing was something he had always enjoyed and to be able to do it for a living was like a dream come true.

Keshav completed his Physics degree in 2022 and has been focusing on his writing career since, but that doesn’t mean his passion for Physics has ended. He eventually plans to re-enter university to obtain a masters degree in the same field, but perhaps only to satiate his own interest rather than for using it as a means to find employment..

Keshav has found blockchain and its concepts fascinating ever since he started going down the rabbit-hole back in 2020. On-chain analysis in particular has been something he likes to research more about, which is why his NewsBTC pieces tend to involve it in some form.

Being of the science background, Keshav likes if concepts are clear and consistent, so he generally explains the indicators he talks about in a bit of detail so that the readers can perhaps come out having understood and learnt something new.

As for hobbies, Keshav is super into football, anime, and videogames. He enjoys football not only as a watcher, but also as a player. For games, Keshav generally tends towards enjoying singleplayer adventures, with EA FC (formerly FIFA) being the only online game he is active in. Though, perhaps due to being ultra-focused on the game, he is today a semi-pro on the EA FC scene, regularly participating in tournaments and sometimes even taking back prize money.

Because of his enthusiasm for anime and games, he also self-learned Japanese along the way to consume some of the untranslated gems out there. The skill didn’t merely remain as just a hobby, either, as he put it to productive use during his exploration for small-time gigs at the start of COVID, fulfilling a couple of Japanese-to-English translation jobs.

Keshav is also big into fitness, with agility and acceleration-related workouts making a big part of his program due to the relevance they have in football. On top of that, he also has a more traditional strength based program for the gym, which he does to maintain an overall fitness level of his body.

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