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Where ether stands versus its history

Ether was $2,409 on Oct 18, 2026, in the lower third of its 12 month range. Updated when Coinbase publishes a new reading.

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Snapshot

Ether was $2,409 on Oct 18, 2026, in the lower third of its 12 month range. 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: $2,409 on Oct 18, 2026.
  • Previous reading: $2,397 on Oct 17, 2026, so the latest is up 0.5%.
  • One week earlier: $2,535 on Oct 11, 2026; down 5.0% since.
  • One year earlier: $3,984 on Oct 18, 2025; down 39.5% 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 Oct 17, 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 $2,409, ether sits 33% of the way from its 12 month low to its 12 month high. Over the past year it is down 39.5%.

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, in the lower third of its 12 month range Ether price, in the lower third of its 12 month range: series falling from 4089USD to 2409USD (−1680USD) from 2021-10-24 to 2026-10-18. Scale 1000USD to 5000USD. 1000USD2000USD3000USD4000USD5000USD 2021-10-242026-10-18 ETHER PRICE, IN THE LOWER THIRD OF ITS 12 MONTH RANGE −1680USD 2409USD
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) · As of 2026-10-18Indicative, 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: $2,397 on Oct 17, 2026, so the latest is up 0.5% · What we know