ETH Poor Ethereum guards In the A-share market, there's a pretty important reference method: any stock with a lot of retail investors usually performs terribly, lacks momentum, and retail investors end up competing against each other, doubting one another, unable to form consensus, let alone drive the price up. On the other hand, stocks where institutions band together tend to have relatively good upward trends. Too many retail investors love Ethereum, and this matches up—it explains everything for me.