ETH Price Prediction: Stalled Below SMA 50 as Open Interest Climbs and Taker Selling Leads

DERIVATIVESETH Price Prediction: StalledBelow SMA 50 as Open InterestClimbs and Taker Selling Leads10IMPORTANCECLOSED1NEWS MEDIA1PIECESOct 13, 2026 07:18blockboard.net

Ether traded lower in the latest session, and one write-up said it stayed above its short- and long-term 7- and 200-day averages while sitting below its 20- and 50-day lines and two exponential averages. Another write-up said taker sell volume was ahead of taker buy volume in the latest one-hour period, alongside a rise in open interest.

What this rests on

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Ether traded at $2,528.64 and was down 1.76% in the session, while remaining above its SMA 7 and SMA 200 and below its SMA 20, SMA 50, EMA 12, and EMA 26.
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Taker sell volume was higher than taker buy volume in the latest one-hour period.

What it means

Who it affects, what changes and what is still unconfirmed

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Ether holders and traders would notice a market that is still trading beneath several shorter-term averages while remaining above longer-term ones. The session also showed more selling than buying in taker flow, which is visible in the latest one-hour period and may matter to anyone watching order flow closely.

In practice, the market is still being measured against the same moving averages, with price below the 20-day and 50-day lines but above the 7-day and 200-day lines. Open interest is also being tracked as higher than before on Binance Futures, so the main change in the setup is the level of participation shown there, not a change in the averages themselves.

Market reaction

ET Ethereum the event is about this asset from 2 h before to 4 h after the line marks the first headline
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+0.12 % before publication
-1.38 % after
$2,527price at publication
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Kalshi · $105,251 of open interest · resolves on Oct 11, 2026