- Coinshares’ weekly report highlights the total amount of money moved around by these institutions has been consistently disappointing.
- Since the beginning of this year, Ethereum as an institutional asset has been generating mostly outflows.
- Trading above $1,300, ETH is still testing the lower lows on the charts.
The overall state of the market has constantly been fluctuating, making it difficult to ascertain whether, going forward, investors should experience another bullish bout or sink into a bearish run. This unsurety has also affected the bigger cohorts, which usually hold a significant influence on the market - the institutional investors.
Keeping it to themselves
Since the beginning of August this year, institutional investors have been noted to move as little money as possible. In the last seven weeks, pretty much every week has observed minimal inflows and outflows, with the exception of one week.
The beginning of September noted significantly higher outflows, but still remaining within the $100 million mark.
The most recent week ending September 23 witnessed inflows amounting to $8.3 million, evincing lukewarm interest at their end.
Weekly overall flows
Since the market is not providing profits, inflows will remain at a low, and the lack of volatility is keeping this streak active, making it a difficult cycle to escape from.
Furthermore, even among the digital asset investment products that are registering inflows or outflows, Ethereum-based products have been the most volatile.
Since the beginning of this year, ETH investment products have noted the highest outflows amounting to a little under $367 million, with $70.7 million of the same coming just from this month.
Money flows by the asset type
Despite recording positive flows worth $7 million last week, ETH still leads the outflows list, followed by Bitcoin at a meager $4.4 million.
However, it isn’t just the inflows or outflows that have been disappointing investors, the price action too has been severely disappointing.
Ethereum falls back down
Following the Merge, the broader market’s bearishness hit ETH’s volatile conditions, resulting in a 30% drop in the span of 10 days. ETH has been in a minor uptrend for the last ten days.
Ethereum 24-hour price chart
Historically this period has been known to last anywhere between 20 to 25 days, following which ETH ends up noting a sharp fall and repeating the same price couple of days later.
Thus if ETH can sustain this uptrend, ETH’s price could close above the $1,400 mark, bringing it closer to reclaiming the support of the 100-days SMA (Simple Moving Average) (blue).
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