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Ethereum Price Reclaims $1,900 After Extreme Bearish Sentiment
Ethereum social sentiment turns bearish despite recent recovery, while ETF outflows and mixed whale sentiment raise concerns.
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BLOCKINSIDERLoadingEthereum social sentiment turns bearish despite recent recovery, while ETF outflows and mixed whale sentiment raise concerns.
The crowd gave up on Ethereum again, and the market wasted no time punishing them for it. Days after ETH's social sentiment printed its third bearish extreme in a month, a reading that preceded 14% and 7% rallies the last two times, Ethereum price has climbed back above $1,900 on rising volume. The dip-buy signal may already be playing out.
Ethereum's (ETH) social mood is souring. On-chain analytics platform Santiment said in a post on X that the ratio of positive to negative Ethereum commentary across X, Reddit, Telegram, and other crypto channels has turned very bearish for the third time in the past month.
The earlier two troughs, on 27 June and 11 July, looked ugly on the surface too. Notably, ETH climbed 14% in the seven days after the first and 7% in the four days after the second, which is why Santiment treats crowd frustration during price weakness as a repeated dip-buy marker.
Santiment stopped short of calling a reversal. "The bullish takeaway isn't that negative sentiment guarantees an instant reversal," the firm wrote. "It's that when traders are loudly giving up on Ethereum while ETF flows, L2 activity, and protocol upgrades remain active, the #2 market cap in crypto often gets a cleaner setup for a turn-around before the crowd feels comfortable again."
That framing puts the burden on the other data: if the flows stay healthy while the crowd sulks, the contrarian case holds.
Whales sent conflicting messages this week, as tracked by crypto transactions tracker Lookonchain. One long-dormant wallet sold 8,010 ETH worth $15.11 million after eight months of inactivity, while BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes bought 645 ETH worth $1.2 million over the past 24 hours.
The institutional picture, however, is stronger than a single red day suggests. US spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $70.62 million in outflows on Friday, according to recent data from SoSoValue, snapping a five-session streak that had brought in $211.25 million.
Even so, the funds closed the week $103.9 million in the green, their third straight positive week and the best showing of any spot crypto product, with July inflows totaling $337.74 million. The crowd may be capitulating; Wall Street, so far, is not.
The price action is starting to agree. ETH price climbed about 3.4% over the past 24 hours to trade around $1,940, according to recent data from CoinMarketCap, with 24-hour volume rising toward $5.4 billion. Rising price on rising volume is what buyers stepping in looks like, and it echoes how the previous two sentiment dips resolved.
So, has the rebound already begun, or is there a deeper fall ahead?
According to TradingView's daily chart, ETH bounced from the key support at $1,840, its second successful defense of that level since the breakout recorded on 14 July, and has now reclaimed the $1,900 mark. As long as the price holds above $1,840, the short-term bias stays positive.
In the bullish scenario, holding above $1,900 keeps the $2,150 level in play, roughly 11% above current prices.
That said, a close back below $1,840, and then the psychological $1,800 mark, would end the short-term bullish bias. In that scenario, ETH could slide toward the $1,530 level, roughly 21% below current prices.
The longer-term picture stays heavier: ETH continues to trade below its 200-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA), a sign sellers still control the bigger trend. The next two tells are simple to track — whether ETH price holds the reclaimed $1,900, and whether the next ETF print confirms Friday's outflow was a pause rather than a turn.
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