As a trader in the Asian time zone we learn to accept that our trading day usually sets up price for where they want it to be for the New York open. Some time after midday, you learn to expect a fast move higher or lower, followed by a snapback leaving a decent sized wick on the chart. Price will then slowly work it's way to the opposite end of the desired range and repeat the procedure. That gives us a range that will narrow down until it reaches the mid point right before the New York open.
'Old school traders' will use words like supply, demand, support, resistance and indecision to explain why this happens. I prefer to call it as it is - MANIPULATION.
On the 1hr ETH chart I can see that they trapped short the traders expecting another drop, they took price quickly away from those traders and up to the top of the range. Then, the traders that believed a 'Bart' pattern was incoming got trapped long. As always, there will be no escape for those traders and price will go "Sideways until New York".
The charts show clearly that price could easily go up for the 'Bart' or down to 'the bottom'. There will be an equal number of positive and negative news articles between now and the NY open to add to the confusion. I am not here to project where price may go, just to suggest that the price of ETH should be not too far away from 1183 at the NY open. This is the midpoint between the range high and low and will give traders absolutely no reason for any directional bias at the open.