Zcash Price Recovers After 13% Drop: Can ZEC Break $500 Before 2026?

Zcash is regaining after a major decline of more than 13 percent within the last 24 hours. The price is down to 392 today after reaching a high of $445 yesterday. Currently, the Zcash price is consolidating between support at $392 and resistance at $418. Both the RSI and MACD indicators today revealed some critical signals, and the MACD created a golden cross that led to a minor recovery in the price. As of now, Zcash is trading at $408.

Zcash MACD Death Cross at $444 Triggers Quick Reversal

In order to have a wider perspective of the market, we shall look at the Zcash price movement over the past 24 hours. Zcash started on December 14, 2025, with a death cross on the MACD, and this caused the price to fall to the first level of support at $420. Here, Zcash price reached an oversold position, and a golden cross on the MACD caused a short-term consolidation. Nevertheless, at 10:55 AM UTC, the RSI signaled an overbought market, leading to a price fall and a test of support at $418. Next, at 12:40 PM UTC, the MACD signaled another death cross, and the lower boundary was broken, and the price was then driven to $397 by a full-body downward candle.

ZEC/USDT M5 chart, analyzed by Ali Oliyaee, published on TradingView, December 15, 2025

ZEC RSI Oversold at $397 Sparks Recovery with Golden Cross

Zcash price was oversold once more on the RSI at this critical point, and a golden cross on the MACD was reached, which caused a short-term recovery that saw the price regain its position at $410. After this, Zcash price moved sideways up to the expiry of the trading session, where RSI indicated another oversold state. The last turning point was a pin bar at the support level of $397, and as another golden cross occurred on the MACD, the Zcash price started to increase once more, which indicated the possibility of an upward trend.

Zcash Surges to $418 After Golden Cross

The trading hours of December 15, 2025, at the onset of the trading day, Zcash was on an upward trend after an oversold condition, which was caused by a golden cross on the RSI and a golden cross signal on the MACD that had been seen at the end of the last trading day, leading to a price increase. The highest point of the day was the price reaching $418. On this level, the RSI experienced an overbought scenario, and the MACD indicated a decline and the price fell to the lowest point of the day at $392. This was when another golden cross was formed on the MACD, and this started a short-lived rebound of the price, which restored Zcash price to its present value of $408.

Zcash’s Next Move: Sideways Trading or Big Breakout Ahead?

Zcash is presently trading in a lateral direction between its support at $392 and resistance at $418. Zcash price should be within this range in the short term. But over the longer term, a breakout either above or below these points would be the cause of a larger price trend in the same direction. A break of the lower boundary of $392 would result in the next target of the price as $390, whereas an outburst of the upper boundary of $418 would redirect attention to the next important level of price as $433.

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