XRP had far from a positive 2019, with the price of the leading cryptocurrency dropping by 50% over the course of 12 months while Bitcoin gained 90% or so.
And while investors in the digital asset presumably want 2020 to be much better, the year’s already starting off red.
On Thursday, January 2nd, the price of cryptocurrencies across the board sunk by 3%, with Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and so on and so forth all posting losses after stagnating in a tight price range for weeks on end.
Livercoin, a prominent cryptocurrency trader, recently noted that this latest bout of price action has resulted in a bearish pennant, formed over the past few weeks, breaking down, implying that further bearish price action could come in the following weeks.
To be continued…$XRP pic.twitter.com/MVrzSfYQDA
— Livercoin (@livercoin) January 2, 2020
According to Capo of Crypto, a popular cryptocurrency analyst, this pennant breakdown implies that the cryptocurrency could fall to the region around the $0.13 price point, around 30% lower than the now-current (as of the time of writing this) market price of $0.187.
This has been echoed by analyst Magi, who recently argued that the cryptocurrency is printing “what appears to be a bear flag breakdown,” which has a measured target of $0.15 per XRP. Magic added that the $0.15 target could easily be hit if Bitcoin starts to slip once again.
XRP Needs to Hold $0.14
Although the bearish pennant breakdown implies a strong drop lower is possible, Michael Van De Poppe, a contributor to CoinTelegraph and a trader at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, has asserted that as long as the $0.14 to $0.17 region holds, a strong move higher could take place.
The analyst posted the chart seen below, in which he notes that he believes XRP’s current price action is very similar to the bottoming pattern seen in December of 2015 and January of 2016, which was followed by a massive spike to pre-crash levels. He added that massive downtrends on altcoin charts are on the verge of being “broken down,” setting the stage for strong reversals to the upside.
He said should the current trend play out as it did in the previous cycle, meaning XRP will need to hold the $0.14-$0.17 range, it could surge as high as $0.473 — 175% higher than current prices — by the middle of 2020.
Still seeing many similarities to the period in December '15.
Massive downtrends ready to be broken down.
This could give a target for $XRP of $0.48, a potential rise of 175% from here. pic.twitter.com/4jZKoIN47Y
— Crypto Michaël (@CryptoMichNL) December 31, 2019
Photo by Trung Pham Quoc on Unsplash
from Ethereum World News https://en.ethereumworldnews.com/xrp-poised-plunge-further-price-bearish/
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