{"id":650990,"date":"2026-08-31T09:08:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Blockchain.News\/news\/20260831-price-prediction-pepe-the-post-squeeze-bleed-has-further"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:08:53","slug":"pepe-price-prediction-the-post-squeeze-bleed-has-further-to-go-watch-0-0000031-or-fade-the-bounce-into-0-0000039","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/pepe-price-prediction-the-post-squeeze-bleed-has-further-to-go-watch-0-0000031-or-fade-the-bounce-into-0-0000039\/","title":{"rendered":"PEPE Price Prediction: The Post-Squeeze Bleed Has Further to Go \u2014 Watch $0.0000031 or Fade the Bounce Into $0.0000039"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caroline Bishop<\/a> Aug 31, 2026 09:08<\/span> <\/p>\n

PEPE is sliding into Monday’s open at approximately $0.00000345, down 14% on the week and dramatically underperforming even the broader meme-coin sector. With momentum indicators flattening, volume…<\/p>\n

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The Immediate Setup<\/h2>\n

It’s Monday morning and PEPE is not getting the benefit of the doubt. Trading near $0.00000345 \u2014 roughly 14% off its weekly peak and nearly 88% below its all-time high of $0.00002803 set in December 2024 \u2014 the frog is croaking in a direction nobody wants to hear. What makes this moment dangerous isn’t just the price level; it’s the character of the move. The 24-hour Binance spot volume registered around $34 million, which is anaemic relative to the mid-week surge that drove the August squeeze. High volume going up, low volume coming down \u2014 that’s distribution, not consolidation.<\/p>\n

The momentum picture tells a similar story. RSI sitting in the mid-50s sounds neutral, but context matters: this same reading was printing above 79 just days ago. A double-digit RSI collapse in under a week is deterioration wearing a poker face, not stabilization. The Stochastic’s %K crossing above %D is the one constructive flicker in the data, with %K at 49.75 versus %D at 39.80 \u2014 a potential short-term stabilization signal \u2014 but in the current macro environment, one lonely oscillator cross doesn’t change the dominant narrative. The Bollinger Band %B at 0.587 means price is hovering slightly above the midpoint of its range, keeping the door open for either direction, which is exactly the kind of ambiguity that traps impatient longs. Blockchain.news<\/a> covered the August PEPE squeeze in real time, and what’s unfolding now fits the classic post-euphoria exhaust pattern to a tee.<\/p>\n

Key Levels Exposed<\/h2>\n

The map here isn’t complicated \u2014 it just requires honesty. On the downside, the first serious floor worth watching sits around $0.0000033\u2013$0.0000031. This is the zone where buyers stepped in aggressively during early August before the squeeze materialized, and it aligns closely with the 50-day SMA region. A clean daily close below $0.0000031 opens the trapdoor to $0.0000026\u2013$0.0000027, a range PEPE spent most of mid-August churning through before catching a bid. That’s not a crash scenario \u2014 it’s a mean reversion scenario, and meme coins do this without warning.<\/p>\n

On the upside, the $0.0000039\u2013$0.0000041 band is now acting as the first serious ceiling. This is where sellers re-entered with conviction last week after the squeeze peaked, and it’s where any near-term bounce will meet real resistance. Above that, the $0.0000042\u2013$0.0000045 cluster is the zone where the August move ran out of steam entirely. The full bull extension target near $0.0000054 remains mathematically alive \u2014 but it requires consecutive daily closes through $0.0000041, and nothing in today’s tape suggests that’s remotely close. Coinbase data shows PEPE underperforming both BTC and ETH by a wide margin over the past week, which means correlation isn’t bailing this trade out right now.<\/p>\n