NEAR Traded Above $5.24 in Two Oct. 21 Market Snapshots

NEAR Protocol (NEAR) topped $5.24 in two Oct. 21 market snapshots, but the readings did not confirm the completed hourly close that a chart setup required to validate a rebound.

The setup listed NEAR at $5.22 and its latest completed hourly close at $5.17. It marked $5.24, the hourly upper Bollinger Band, as the confirmation level. A price reading above that mark did not meet the stated condition by itself.

NEAR was $5.356 in a perpetual-market snapshot at 1 p.m. ET (17:00 UTC), then $5.314 in a spot quote at 6:40:54 p.m. ET (22:40:54 UTC). These were separate point-in-time readings, not confirmation of a completed hourly spot candle above $5.24.

The daily chart placed NEAR above its 20-day exponential moving average (EMA) at $4.90, 50-day EMA at $4.18 and 200-day EMA at $2.68. The daily relative strength index (RSI) was 52.7 and falling, while the moving average convergence-divergence (MACD) histogram was negative and flat. On the hourly chart, RSI was 62.5 and falling, and the positive MACD histogram was narrowing.

The setup listed $5.61 as the daily upper Bollinger Band. Its support references were $5.21, $5.18 and $5.14, with the daily Bollinger midpoint at $5.03.

Separately, near.com processed about $2.57 billion in volume during the third quarter, roughly one-quarter of total Intents volume. That platform activity does not establish what drove NEAR’s price move.