ETH Will Never See $5K Again — So I'm Using It as a Hedge for My Bitcoin DCA Str

[Alpen]

The founder of the investment firm DFG points out that large investors and the traditional finance sector just don't trust ETH. James Wo blames Layer‑2 networks for that. Ethereum's main blockchain is losing economic activity, and as a result, ETH's value keeps falling. Wo believes Bitcoin will keep hitting new all‑time highs, but ETH has already peaked and will never see $5,000 again.

Personally, I think that's great news. I trade Bitcoin using a DCA strategy, adding positions on pullbacks to the lower Bollinger Band. According to HODL trading rules, I'm not supposed to sell BTC, but I'm seeing signs that crypto is about to drop. What if I opened a short position on ETH at that moment? That could offset some of the downside. If my prediction of an ETH drop turns out wrong, I'd end up with a position that's equivalent to shorting ETH/BTC.



As you can see on the ten‑year chart, Ethereum has fallen back to its lows after a failed recovery attempt back in 2021. The biggest altcoin has been losing ground to Bitcoin for four years now, which makes it a perfect candidate for a hedging strategy. What does everyone think about this? Is a new all‑time high for Ethereum out of the question?

[pooya87]

The reason why ETH is a failed experiment that will continue being dumped over the long haul is that it is a centralized shitcoin with unlimited supply and a fundamentally flawed protocol.

Like any other shitcoin, ETH also had its little moment in the sun back in 2017 during the largest altcoin pumping season of entire crypto market history. Back then the ETH centralized authorities aka the pumpers managed to pump it as high as 0.150BTC but like any other pumped shitcoin in history, that pump could not last forever and the dump part was inevitable. Which is what's been happening ever since that peak, a consistent dump every year to the current 0.026BTC

Everything else the same pumpers do will only create dead cat bounces and nothing more.

[philipma1957]

Pos hurt eth price.

And 30 million coins were staked in 2022  1200 or so.

This anchors the price.

So 1200 and all the stakers are fine

[_act_]

Ethereum will never see $5000? Ethereum has not gotten to $5000 before.

As you can see on the ten‑year chart, Ethereum has fallen back to its lows after a failed recovery attempt back in 2021. The biggest altcoin has been losing ground to Bitcoin for four years now, which makes it a perfect candidate for a hedging strategy. What does everyone think about this? Is a new all‑time high for Ethereum out of the question?

Altcoins like ethereum is very difficult to predict this way, this is the reason I prefer just only bitcoin. Just forget about using chart for the long term price speculation of the coin, it is very possible that ethereum may or may not get to $5000 or all time high, but I think it will get there.

[bitbollo]

After ICO and few months after launch, this coin was likewise dead.
Or at least I can't understand the reason on how it can become again competitive in such a current scenario. there are dozens of options...

Once in a big company I have even seen "executives" shilling for ETH = its the new bitcoin.
Around 10 years ago...I believe that this could be the real problem for such altcoins. You can't consider them as "new bitcoin".

[MadSl1m]

_act_ already caught the headline slip, ETH never quite tagged $5K, the ATH was about $4,950 in August 2025. The part nobody's questioned is the strategy itself. ETH isn't a hedge for a BTC position, it's a higher-beta version of the same bet. Their return correlation runs around 0.85, so they fall together and ETH usually falls harder, which is exactly what this selloff is showing. A hedge has to be uncorrelated or inverse to what it protects, cash, a short, something outside crypto beta. Pairing ETH with a BTC DCA doesn't offset the risk, it concentrates it.

[IjawMan]

The reason why ETH is a failed experiment that will continue being dumped over the long haul is that it is a centralized shitcoin with unlimited supply and a fundamentally flawed protocol.

Like any other shitcoin, ETH also had its little moment in the sun back in 2017 during the largest altcoin pumping season of entire crypto market history. Back then the ETH centralized authorities aka the pumpers managed to pump it as high as 0.150BTC but like any other pumped shitcoin in history, that pump could not last forever and the dump part was inevitable. Which is what's been happening ever since that peak, a consistent dump every year to the current 0.026BTC

Everything else the same pumpers do will only create dead cat bounces and nothing more.

The ico explosion was unprecedentedly in the cryptocurrency market that generally saw a peak in all altcoins to which ethereum was not exempted and after that came about the theatry act of almost a 4,900 dollars  all time high price reached in 2021.

Since the last all time high to this day this altcoin has continued to experience a progressive net outflows since the bear market of 2022 that plummeted down the price,

which anchors that investors are now sourcing for other alternatives as from what can be seen that the coin future looks gloomy with rapid selling pressure in spite what effort it developers are making to pump it.