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Ethereum traded at $1,664 on June 15, recovering from a liquidity sweep below $1,500 earlier this month, as Michael Saylor declared at a public event that investor confidence in the second-largest token has collapsed and an analyst identified $1,069 as a critical support level.
"Confidence in Ethereum has collapsed if you're paying attention," Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, said at the Bitcoin Corporate Day event on June 12. He pointed to Bitcoin's dominance climbing from roughly 41 percent in 2021 to nearly 70 percent today, excluding stablecoins, as evidence the market has chosen Bitcoin over ETH. Saylor argued that ETH is now locked in an exhausting competition with Solana and BNB that has drained its monetary premium, leaving utility as the only remaining value argument.
The daily chart shows ETH pressing against a descending trendline near $1,700 that has capped every recovery attempt since the June decline began. The current candle range runs from a high of $1,800 to a low of $1,500, defining the immediate battle zone. Above current price, $2,282 marks the first meaningful resistance from the weekly structure, followed by $3,335. To the downside, $1,500 represents the candle range low, with $1,069 identified as multi-year channel support by analyst Ali Charts — a level that aligns with the 2022 bear market floor that preceded ETH's recovery toward $4,868.
Derivatives data showed traders positioning for a defined move. Volume rose 75.75 percent to $27.60 billion while open interest climbed 6.61 percent to $24.49 billion, with options volume more than doubling to $765.17 million, per Coinglass. The long/short ratio sat at 1.0305, nearly neutral. Over 24 hours, $43.46 million in short positions were liquidated against $17.62 million in longs, with bears absorbing more than twice the losses of bulls — consistent with the squeeze that drove the bounce off $1,500.
Saylor's comments come as Strategy disclosed it acquired 1,587 Bitcoin for $100 million between June 8 and June 14 at an average price of $63,024 per coin, bringing its total holdings to 846,842 BTC. The company sourced the funds from its MSTR Class A Common Stock offering, which raised $209 million in the same period.
A daily close above $1,700 would break the short-term downtrend and target $1,800, with continued short liquidations potentially opening the path toward $2,282. A rejection at $1,700 and close below $1,600 keeps the $1,500 floor in play. A break of that level removes the last near-term support and puts the multi-year channel support at $1,069 on the table — a 36 percent decline from current prices.
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