It's time to look again at good old XRP, the historically most brutal coin to hold, and it again does confirm its reputation.
The price action of XRP has been really subpar compared to some other coins, that have already seen strong rises, in accordance to the rise of BTC to new all-time highs.
This is of course largely due to the SEC vs Ripple case, and the subsequent delisting of XRP from american exchanges.
However, I am convinced that XRP will see epic pumps, no matter what happens in the future with the SEC lawsuit.
First of all, I am following the case and it looks as if either Ripple wins or settlement happens with a probability of close to 100%. The SEC are total clowns that have an extremely weak case,
and actually they are now even under scrutiny for suspicion of corruption as a direct result.
But chart-wise, what XRP is doing, is nothing new. This coin always was insanely stable in BTC runups, and then after everyone had given up, see insane short bursts of extreme rise in the matter
of mere weeks. This is the modus operandi of that coin, and we all knew it would be hard to have XRP.
Also, historically it was always one of the very last coins to pump in a bullmarket. Actually one could even say: When XRP has pumped, the bullmarket is over. Being the last coin to pump, this statement
could be verified again pretty soon.
I mistakenly thought that we would get a 2017 repeat. However, BTC is NOT doing a 2017 repeat, this rally is really different from 2017. It looks more like a weird version of 2013. So, why shouldn't the correct
XRP behavior also lie as far back as 2013, which is relevant to our analysis?
In 2013, we can actually see some fascinating stuff that happened. XRP made an insanely similar structure to what it is doing now !
I marked it with the two ellipses. First fake pump, then dump to a lower XRP/BTC ratio. Then from there pump, retrace, another smaller pump, and by that logic, we should soon see a dump, followed by
an outrageous pump.
Fascinatingly, this would coincide with a very likely BTC dump, before the epic pump towards the end of the year.
I also expect the US dollar DXY to further weaken and further fuel the crypto rally. Everything is aligning nicely and XRP will be again one of the last coins to pump, but I still believe that the reward for all
people that were insane enough to hold this coin through all that brutal time, will be extremely high.