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Where ether stands versus its history

Ether was $2,397 on Oct 17, 2026, its lowest reading since Sep 2, 2026. Updated when Coinbase publishes a new reading.

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Snapshot

Ether was $2,397 on Oct 17, 2026, its lowest reading since Sep 2, 2026. The highest reading in the data is $4,831 on Aug 21, 2025 and the lowest is $7 on Dec 5, 2016; the data starts on May 18, 2016.

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What We Know

  • Latest reading: $2,397 on Oct 17, 2026.
  • Previous reading: $2,418 on Oct 16, 2026, so the latest is down 0.9%.
  • One week earlier: $2,504 on Oct 10, 2026; down 4.3% since.
  • One year earlier: $3,890 on Oct 17, 2025; down 38.4% since.
  • 12 month high: $4,159 on Oct 25, 2025. 12 month low: $1,566 on Jun 28, 2026.
  • 5 year high: $4,831 on Aug 21, 2025. 5 year low: $996 on Jun 18, 2022.
  • Highest since: the latest reading is the highest since Oct 16, 2026, the last time the series was at or above this level.
  • Lowest since: the latest reading is the lowest since Sep 2, 2026, the last time the series was at or below this level.
  • Highest in data back to May 18, 2016: $4,831 on Aug 21, 2025. Lowest: $7 on Dec 5, 2016.

Octans View

At $2,397, ether sits 32% of the way from its 12 month low to its 12 month high. Over the past year it is down 38.4%.

Bear Case · Room for Disagreement

Limits. This page shows daily readings, not intraday levels; a market can trade above or below them during a session. Coinbase data reach FRED with a lag of one day, so the latest reading can trail the market. Records refer only to the history this source carries; older data from other sources may show higher or lower levels. Nothing here is a forecast.

Method and source. Octans Research computes every figure on this page from the full published history of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) series CBETHUSD. "Highest since" is the last earlier date when the series was at or above the latest reading. The page is regenerated by a fixed template when a new reading is published; no model wrote it.

Chart

Ether price, its lowest reading since Sep 2, 2026 Ether price, its lowest reading since Sep 2, 2026: series falling from 4089USD to 2397USD (−1692USD) from 2021-10-24 to 2026-10-17. Scale 1000USD to 5000USD. 1000USD2000USD3000USD4000USD5000USD 2021-10-242026-10-17 ETHER PRICE, ITS LOWEST READING SINCE SEP 2, 2026 −1692USD 2397USD
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) · As of 2026-10-17Indicative, not investment advice.

Sources

  1. [1]Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) — Ether price, full daily history (series CBETHUSD)

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• Previous reading: $2,418 on Oct 16, 2026, so the latest is down 0.9% · What we know