
{"id":137555,"date":"2026-02-24T05:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=137555"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:59:59","slug":"ethereum-is-sitting-at-5-year-demand-zone-according-to-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=137555","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum is Sitting at 5-year \u2018Demand Zone\u2019 According to Analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEthereum is sitting at a 5-year demand zone,\u201d said analyst Merlijn The Trader on Monday.\u00a0\u201cHistorically, this range has been accumulation, not distribution,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ether prices are currently back at April 2025 levels, where it crashed briefly below $1,500.\u00a0They are also back to long-term lows between July 2022 and November 2023, which was a deep bear market and accumulation zone. However, they could wallow around this level for months yet.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the analyst remains confident that \u201cmomentum is building for a potential explosive run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ETHEREUM IS SITTING AT A 5-YEAR DEMAND ZONE.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect entries don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, this range<br \/>\nhas been accumulation, not distribution.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need the exact bottom.<br \/>\nYou need exposure before expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Big bases don\u2019t drift.<br \/>\nThey reprice. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0TQ23J2Lnx\">pic.twitter.com\/0TQ23J2Lnx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Merlijn The Trader (@MerlijnTrader) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MerlijnTrader\/status\/2025978972362924537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h2>Ethereum is a long-term investment<\/h2>\n<p>Investor \u2018StockTrader Max\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StockTrader_Max\/status\/2025871224623308947\">said<\/a> that Ethereum is no longer a \u201cget rich quick\u201d asset that turned early holders into millionaires overnight. They also observed that ETH was still in a five-year accumulation zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you own ETH to make a lot of money by next week or month, then you will likely be disappointed. Ethereum is an asset that should be held in many portfolios with a time horizon of years and NOT months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow analyst \u2018Sykodelic\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sykodelic_\/status\/2025838770944446519\">identified<\/a> a \u201cnice hidden bullish divergence printed on the weekly chart.\u201d\u00a0A hidden bullish divergence is when the RSI (relative strength index) makes a lower low, but the price makes a higher low. \u201cIt means that momentum was actually stronger, but price absorbed it better,\u201d they said before adding:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last time this happened, ETH rallied 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrypto has a lot of tailwinds, but the price action is terrible,\u201d said Fundstrat\u2019s Tom Lee.<\/p>\n<p>His Ethereum DAT BitMine continues to buy the dip and <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/ethereum-staking-address-now-holds-over-half-eth-supply-for-first-time-ever-santiment\/\">stake<\/a>, adding a further 51,162 ETH over the past week, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BitMNR\/status\/2025933075163611408\">according<\/a> to a Monday update.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the midst of this \u2018mini crypto winter,\u2019 our focus continues to be on methodically executing our treasury strategy and steadily acquiring ETH and, in turn, optimizing the yield on our ETH holdings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>ETH Price Dips Again<\/h2>\n<p>Ether could not hold above $1,900 and has fallen back to $1,830 at the time of writing during the Tuesday morning Asian trading session.<\/p>\n<p>The asset is now not far away from its Feb. 6 low and does not appear to be ready for a move to the upside yet, despite all of the positive fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/ethereum-is-sitting-at-5-year-demand-zone-according-to-analysts\/\">Ethereum is Sitting at 5-year \u2018Demand Zone\u2019 According to Analysts<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEthereum is sitting at a 5-year demand zone,\u201d said analyst Merlijn The Trader on Monday.\u00a0\u201cHistorically, this range has been accumulation, not distribution,\u201d he added. Ether prices are currently back at April 2025 levels, where it crashed briefly below $1,500.\u00a0They are also back to long-term lows between July 2022 and November 2023, which was a deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":137556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}