The analyst positions $3,270 and $4,892 as preliminary milestones on a more extended trajectory toward $10,000 and $15,000 in his optimistic ETH roadmap. Ethereum is currently retesting a resistance line that it has only approached on two prior occasions, in 2021 and again around 2025. Trader Crypto Patel characterises this situation as the “biggest breakout setup yet” for the cryptocurrency. In a chart released on Friday, Patel outlined a trajectory leading to $5,000, subsequently $10,000, and then $15,000, contingent upon a line break, despite ETH trading around $2,500, which remains below half of its all-time peak.
“$ETH is retesting a multi-year resistance zone for the 3rd time after holding its long-term accumulation support,” stated Patel as he shared a chart that traced a descending trendline from 2018 to 2021, marked by three lower highs before ETH broke out into that year’s rally. The same horizontal resistance constrained the price at the 2021 peak and again near 2025, with the current test representing the third interaction with that line. Below it, a wide band referred to by the analyst as the “Best Accumulation Zone” has captured every significant pullback since, featuring a rising trendline that ETH currently hovers just above, approximately $2,460 according to the chart’s reading. The target ladder is more granular than the $5K, $10K, $15K shorthand in Patel’s caption suggests.
The chart itself marks 3,270 and 4,892 as the first two levels, with 5,500 also flagged, before the path opens toward 10,000 and then 15,000. At the time of writing, spot ETH exhibited minimal change over the past 24 hours; however, it has declined approximately 1% over the week and is roughly 44% lower than its trading position a year prior. However, over the course of one month, it exhibited an increase of 31%, although this rise still positioned the asset 50% beneath its all-time high reached in August 2025. Trading volume surged nearly 28% over the past 24 hours, approaching $16.3 billion, indicating renewed interest at the level Patel is monitoring.
Analyst NoName, in a post on Thursday, presented an alternative viewpoint, highlighting that ETH had recently completed a Wave 3 impulsive move and stating that “the next phase of the structure should be a Wave 4 correction.” They indicated that $2,324 serves as the initial support level to monitor, with a potential rebound toward the range of $2,784 to $2,966 if buyers manage to uphold it. Conversely, a decline to the $2,112 to $2,222 area may occur if this support fails. Only a daily close under $2,050 would invalidate the setup entirely. Several other market watchers have also been monitoring the $2,500 to $2,550 range, with some anticipating a move toward $3,000 following a robust weekly close above resistance, while others foresee a pullback toward $2,000 initially.
