When to buy Ethereum (ETH) for a profit? A technical analysis (April 2021)

4 min readMay 10, 2021

Note: The information in this article is NOT financial advice.

Outline

In what follows, you will find conditions under which Ethereum’s price to the US Dollar is likely to rise or drop. The prices of the cryptocurrency are plotted over time. Each price point is the average of prices over a day, and the window represents a year. Indicators, such as Bollinger Bands, Volume, MACD, RSI, will be used to infer the likelihood of the price to rise or drop. (Charts from TradingView are used.)

Bollinger Bands

When the Bollinger Bands are placed against the prices of the cryptocurrency, a pattern can be observed. This pattern can be used to infer when the price of the cryptocurrency is likely to rise and drop. When the price touches or crosses the lower band, it eventually hits or crosses the upper band after some time (see image), and vice versa. Sometimes, the price only needs to gets close enough to either the lower or upper band to observe this pattern (see image). When the midline or mid-band of the Bollinger Bands has a positive (upward) trend, the price tends to stay above the midline, and when the midline or mid-band has a negative (downward) trend, the price tends to stay below the midline (see image).

Volume

When the price crosses, touches, or nears either the lower or the upper band, there is an uptick in the volume chart (see image). The uptick may occur slightly after the price crosses, touches, or nears the lower or upper band; it may also occur when the price suddenly drops or rises. By an uptick, we mean a rise in the volume, where the volume for the day before and the volume for the day after the uptick are lower than the volume that causes the uptick.

Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)

When the price has a positive (upward) trend, the blue line of the MACD is above the red line, the farther apart these lines are (or the more they diverge), the more positive the price trend is. When the price trend turns negative (downward), the blue and red lines meet (or converge) and cross each other, and the red line is above the blue line; the farther apart they are, the more negative the price trend is.

Relative Strength Index (RSI)

Roughly, when the price rises, so does the RSI, and it goes down when the price drops (see image). When the value of the RSI nears 30, the price tends to cross, touch, or near the lower band, and when the value of the RSI nears 70, the price tends to cross, touch, or near the upper band. When the price crosses the upper Bollinger band and stays above it for some time and the upper and lower Bollinger bands are wider apart, the RSI stays above the 70 line for some time (see image). The trend of the RSI graph tends to coincide with the trend of the midline of the Bollinger Bands.

When to buy Ethereum (ETH) for a profit?

On April 29th, 2021, the price of Ethereum to the US dollar touched back the upper Bollinger band after having been above the upper band for a couple of day, and the RSI touched the 70 line (see image), which suggests the price of the cryptocurrency may drop after the 29th. However, the lines of the MACD still diverged, with the blue line above the red line (see image), although the blue line was slightly bent forward. If the price drops after the 29th, it may stay above or close to the Bollinger mid-band and bounce back up, as it did on the 19th and 24th, which might be due to the positive trend of the mid-band.

Last Words

After April 29th, 2021, the price of the cryptocurrency may drop because it had been above the Bollinger upper band and touched back the upper band and the RSI touched the 70 line. If the price of Ethereum drops, it may stay above or close to the mid-band and bounce back up because of the positive trend of the mid-band.

Originally published at https://ekswhy.com.