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The overall market sentiment over the past few weeks has been volatile and despite major swings throughout the cryto market, Ether seems to have began displaying an authentic consolidation pattern:
As noted before in previous consolidation articles, a couple of the signals for potential consolidation would be a decrease in price volatility, which Ether has shown in strength & decreasing volume over the course of the trend before a breakout. These two signals are rather evident in our chart.
Ether's price range has remained well within the $240 & $320 price range. As noted in our charts, consolidation can take numerous patterns but in this case, a convergent pattern developed where we witnessed higher lows and lower highs.
The last significant consolidation that Ether experienced was within the $40 range that resulted in a bull run that more than doubled the ETH market value.
Our last peak in volume (ab) was the highest since the last major consolidation period & based on the macro-trend, our consolidation settles nicely within the 0.618 & 0.786 retracement levels. The high volume during consolidation signals that the market has found its bottom and bull v. bear ratio confidence before a breakout is building. We'll be watching this as it unfolds. In the event that consolidation breaks down due to increased uncertainty we could witness a break down toward the last support price level of $200 before an upward trend develops.
For the long run however(in this case I'm speaking months), my recommendation would be to remain long as the last major consolidation period saw a more than double increase in ETH market value.
