Ethereum plunges 13% vs. Bitcoin pushing BTC dominance to 2022 high — more pain ahead?
Ethereum's native token Ether (ETH) plunged to its lowest level in almost two months against Bitcoin (BTC) as a crypto market sell-off intensified on May 12.
The ETH/BTC trading pair fell by 7.5% to 0.0663 in the past 24 hours. The downside move came as a part of a correction that began May 11 when the pair traded at the local high of 0.0768. That pushed Ether down against BTC by up to 13.75%.
Cryptocurrencies have come under stress in recent weeks alongside stock markets. Notably, money managers, traders, and investors show signs of "de-risking" their portfolios amid growing concerns over an increasingly hawkish Fed.
Ethereum, the second-largest crypto by market cap, has also been hit by the same macro headwinds, now trading 65% lower than its record high of around $4,870 in November 2021. Similarly, Bitcoin is down 63% from its all-time high of $69,000 in the same period.
As a result of Ether's slightly limited decline compared to Bitcoin's, ETH/BTC has shown resilience despite the market downturn in 2022. Nonetheless, the pair now shows signs of catching up to the bearish trend,suggesting more pain ahead.
ETH/BTC's latest decline has had it break below its prevailing rising wedge pattern, suggesting the pair's technical downside target could be much lower than today's local lows.
That's because rising wedges are bearish reversal patterns that typically send the price lower by as much as their maximum height when measured from the breakdown point.
Hence, the ETH/BTC rising wedge's breakdown target comes to be near 0.064 after adding the structure's maximum height (around minus 0.009 BTC) to the breakdown point (0.073 BTC).
Conversely, ETH/BTC has been testing an upward sloping trendline (marked as "LTF support" in the chart
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