ETHUSD soared to a brand new excessive for the 12 months, and the transfer was unrelated to the US greenback.

• ETHUSD soared to a brand new excessive for the 12 months 
• The transfer was not associated to the US greenback
• $2,000 is a pivotal stage for the pair

Lower than one week earlier than the Federal Reserve (Fed) assembly, the cryptocurrency market reached new highs for the 12 months. ETH/USD, as an illustration, simply made a brand new excessive, buying and selling near $1,800.

It was not due to a comfortable greenback. Simply the opposite, the greenback has been purchased throughout the FX dashboard whereas the main cryptocurrencies made a brand new excessive for the 12 months. Due to this fact, traders would possibly discover the present ranges too depressed and suppose it’s price investing in.

What does the technical image present for Ethereum now that it has made a brand new excessive for the 12 months?

ETHUSD chart by TradingView

Bullish triangle’s measured transfer factors to extra upside

ETH/USD consolidated in a contracting triangle through the second half of final 12 months. The triangle fashioned on the backside of a bearish development, and when 2023 began, the market broke above its higher trendline

Due to this fact, the sample acted as a reversal.

Such a triangle has a measure transfer given by the size of its longest section. The second section is the longest, because the triangle is irregular (i.e., the second section is longer than the primary one).

It signifies that if we mission the size of it from the tip of the triangular sample, we are able to discover the measured transfer round $2,200. Furthermore, it signifies that the market ought to transfer above the pivotal $2,000 stage.

On the flip aspect, the bullish situation could be invalidated ought to Ethereum reverses and strikes beneath $1,200.

It will be curious if the market would stay uncorrelated with the US greenback. That ought to concern crypto merchants, on condition that the Fed March assembly is due subsequent week.