What changed since the previous read (2026-09-03)
One label moved, and it is the one that has never moved before. A week ago Ethereum's monthly cell read trend down, and multi-timeframe alignment read conflicting for the seventh consecutive read. Today the monthly reads trend up and alignment reads aligned_up. Across the eleven reads this stream has recorded for Ethereum since 2026-06-23 — and, in fact, across all thirty-three reads it has recorded for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana combined — no monthly cell had previously returned an up trend, and no asset had previously returned an aligned_up label. Price rose 3.46% over the week, from 2,383.45 to 2,465.94.
The level ledgers moved too. The 2,424.89 entry that was the nearest 3D resistance a week ago, with three touches, has left the 3D resistance ledger; a support at 2,356.41 arrived below price on the same scan. On the weekly, the 2,425.47 resistance departed and 2,566.53 arrived in its place. The weekly support ledger did not change at all — the same five entries with the same touch counts.
What flipped the monthly, and which side moved
All percentages here are measured against the current price of 2,465.94, which is the denominator throughout.
Our trend classification on each timeframe compares price to that timeframe's 20-period exponential average. A week ago Ethereum's monthly 20-EMA stood at 2,418.09, which was 1.45% above price. Today it stands at 2,425.94, which is 1.62% below price. Price crossed it.
Which side did the work is not ambiguous here: the monthly EMA itself moved 0.32% over the week while price moved 3.46%. This was price travelling to the average, not the average sagging into price — the opposite mechanism from the one that downgraded Solana's monthly strength a week ago. The monthly 20-SMA, a slower line, is still 5.57% above price, narrowed from 9.06%; that one has not been crossed.
Two qualifiers belong on this, both from our own numbers. Monthly trend strength reads weak, on an efficiency ratio of 0.1810 that actually fell over the week from 0.2036 — the second-lowest directional efficiency of the nine cells on our board. And monthly momentum reads neutral, with RSI at 48.52, still below the midpoint. A monthly cell can cross its average without the momentum band following, and here it has: the direction classification changed while the momentum classification did not.
The timeframe read
3D — up, strong, momentum bullish. This is the strongest cell on the board on two separate unitless measures: RSI at 68.70 is the highest of the nine, and the efficiency ratio at 0.7211 is also the highest of the nine. Both improved this week — RSI by 2.78 points and the efficiency ratio by 0.1206, the largest rises of any cell in each case. The 20-EMA at 2,206.72 sits 10.51% below price and the 20-SMA at 2,117.87 sits 14.12% below. ATR is 139.32, or 5.65% of price. The nearest support is the newly arrived 2,356.41 (one touch, 4.44% below price) and the nearest resistance is 2,566.53 (one touch, 4.08% above), a band of 8.52% of price or 1.51 times one 3D ATR. RSI in the high 60s is conventionally read as strong momentum approaching, but not yet in, the overbought band our engine marks at 70.
1W — up, strong, momentum bullish. RSI 58.35, up from 56.68. The 20-EMA at 2,134.28 sits 13.45% below price and the 20-SMA at 2,028.95 sits 17.72% below — among the widest average-to-price separations on the board, behind Solana's. Efficiency fell here, 0.6880 to 0.6308. ATR narrowed to 197.36, 8.00% of price against 9.37% a week ago. The structural change is the band: a week ago the weekly scan boxed price between 2,357.59 and 2,425.47, a span of just 2.85% of price and 0.30 of one weekly ATR — the tightest cell on our board at the time. With 2,425.47 gone and 2,566.53 in its place, that band is now 8.47% of price and 1.06 times one weekly ATR. The floor did not move; the ceiling re-resolved 141.07 higher.
1M — up, weak, momentum neutral. Beyond the cross described above, the monthly ledger is thin and unchanged. It lists a single support: 1,548.08, carrying eight touches, 37.22% below price — the second most-tested level anywhere on our nine-cell board. The nearest monthly resistance is 3,580.34 at one touch, 45.19% above price. That leaves a band of 82.41% of price, or 2.58 times one monthly ATR, with nothing listed inside it. The gap is an absence of prior monthly pivots in that range, not a statement about where price goes.
Zones
Both faster timeframes list an unmitigated bullish order block and no bear zone at all. The 3D zone spans 1,863.67 to 1,925.00, aged 9 bars, 21.94% to 24.42% below price; the weekly zone re-resolved this week to 1,853.62–1,931.57 at an age of 4 bars, covering nearly the same ground. The monthly lists neither a bull nor a bear zone. Across all nine cells on our board there is currently no bear order block on any asset or timeframe.
Convergence
Worth noting alongside the monthly flip: the 3D and weekly scans still agree on the ceiling, as they did a week ago, but at a different number. A week ago they landed on 2,424.89 and 2,425.47 — 0.02% of price apart. Both entries have since left their ledgers, and both scans now name the identical level, 2,566.53, 4.08% above price. Two independent pivot scans on different candle sets producing the same figure is the kind of agreement that makes a level visible to more than one class of chart reader.