3 reasons why Ethereum price can hit $4K in April

Three marketplace catalysts suggest that Ethereum's autochthonal token Ether (ETH) is well-positioned to scope $4,000 this month.

Google searches for "Ethereum merge" spike 

Internet users' involvement successful Ethereum's upcoming web upgrade, dubbed "the Merge," surged substantially successful the week ending April 2, Google Trends' information shows.

Searches for the keyword "Ethereum Merge" reached a cleanable Google Trends people of 100 connected a 12-month timeframe with astir postulation coming from the U.S., Singapore, Canada, and Australia.

Internet inclination people for the keyword 'Ethereum Merge.' Source: Google Trends

Merge, besides called ETH 2.0, refers to the Ethereum network's full modulation to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) from Proof-of-Work (PoW), a improvement that had been touted arsenic 1 of the large catalysts down Ether's rebound rally successful caller weeks — from astir $2,500 connected March 14 to implicit $3,500 this week.

The bullish outlook stems from Merge's connection to trim Ether's issuance rate, starring to a imaginable proviso highest successful the full fig of ETH successful circulation. With PoW mining, ETH's proviso has grown by 3% each year.

Total worth staked successful ETH 2.0. Source: Glassnode

The spike successful nationalist involvement for "Ethereum Merge" suggests determination is increasing buzz among crypto investors and traders arsenic the Ethereum upgrade nears. Last month's launch of Kiln is the last nationalist testnet earlier the full web transitions to PoS sometime this year.

Exchange ETH reserves driblet to a three-year low

At the aforesaid time, ETH proviso downtrend connected crypto exchanges continues. 

Notably, nett Ether reserves crossed each the exchanges person dropped to their lowest levels since August 2018, suggesting that traders person been withdrawing ETH en masse to clasp them semipermanent oregon to stake them crossed DeFi liquidity pools.

Ethereum equilibrium connected exchanges. Source: Glassnode

What's more, the fig of addresses with a non-zero equilibrium continues to rise, suggesting increasing adoption and organisation of ETH.

Ethereum fig of addresses with a non-zero balance. Source: Glassnode

Technicals hint astatine $4K ETH price

Chances of ETH terms reaching $4,000 successful April are besides boosted by a classical method pattern.

Dubbed "symmetrical triangle," the signifier usually forms erstwhile the terms consolidates sideways wrong a scope defined by a lowering precocious trendline and a rising little trendline, pursuing a crisp determination upside oregon downside.

In an perfect scenario, the triangle resolves aft the terms breaks successful the absorption of its erstwhile trend, and is frankincense considered a "continuation pattern."

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However, symmetrical triangle breakouts bash not needfully effect successful a continuation trend. For instance, successful the book Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, technical analysts Robert Edwards and John Magee enactment that astir 25% of each symmetrical triangle breakouts pb to reversals, i.e., the terms does not interruption successful the absorption of its erstwhile trend, frankincense defying anticipations.

Ethereum's existent breakout appears to beryllium a reversal arsenic it bounces to the upside alternatively of continuing its erstwhile inclination to the downside, arsenic shown successful the illustration below.

ETH/USD regular terms illustration featuring symmetrical triangle setup. Source: TradingView

A symmetrical triangle's imaginable breakout people is calculated aft measuring the maximum magnitude betwixt the pattern's precocious and little trendline and past adding the effect to its breakout point.

This puts the ETH/USD bullish people astatine astir $4,000.

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