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After six months of witnessing lower highs and lower lows amid a market downtrend, XRP has finally broken the bearish structure with a new higher high.
XRP is gradually pushing toward new territories after months of a sustained downtrend. Specifically, following the July 2025 peak of $3.6, XRP slipped into a downward spiral alongside the rest of the crypto market. Notably, XRP recorded four monthly losses out of five, losing 39% of its value during this period.
A recovery attempt that emerged earlier this month faced resistance at $2.41 on Jan. 6, leading to another round of losses. However, market data indicates that this recovery push helped XRP break what appears to have been a series of lower highs and lower lows that played out consistently after the July 2025 peak.
Key Points
- XRP’s price action has remained under pressure following the drop from the $3.6 peak in July 2025.
- Since then, XRP has recorded multiple monthly losses, losing 39% of its value as it records lower highs and lower lows.
- The recovery attempt from earlier this year, which met resistance at $2.41, helped XRP break this structure of lower highs and lower lows.
- Specifically, XRP’s rise to $2.41 on Jan. 6 marked a higher high, indicating that the bearish momentum may be weakening.
XRP Records Series of Lower Highs and Lower Lows
This pattern was identified by Sjuul Follings, founder and CEO of crypto resource AltCryptoGems. Follings suggested that XRP was starting to look better after breaking the bearish structure that followed the pullback from $3.6 in July 2025.
For context, after this pullback, XRP first dropped to a low of $2.96 by Aug. 3 before recovering to $3.2 six days later. However, this $3.2 peak marked a lower high despite representing stern resistance. From here, XRP dropped further to $2.69 on Sept. 1, marking a lower low. The recovery that followed led to $3.07, another lower high.
This pattern of lower highs and lower lows persisted until Q4 2025, when XRP witnessed another lower high of $2.28 in late November and from here collapsed to a lower low of $1.77 by Dec. 19, 2025. Essentially, the bearish structure lasted till the end of the year.
XRP Breaks Bearish Structure
However, the rebound that ensued at the start of 2026 pushed XRP to $2.41, a higher high when compared to the $2.28 high in late November 2025. This marked the first time XRP recorded a higher high on the daily chart in six months, leading to a break of the bearish structure.
While the pullback that emerged following the $2.41 peak has dampened investor sentiment this year, analysts like Follings believe XRP now sits in a better position. In his latest analysis, Follings confirmed this and noted that XRP must now maintain this new trend of higher values to keep the bullish positioning.
This would mean forming a low higher than the December 2025 floor of $1.77 before rebounding to prices higher than the $2.41 peak of Jan. 6. If this materializes, XRP will have begun forming a series of higher highs and higher lows, a pattern that could set the stage for a sustained recovery.
To maintain the bullish structure, XRP must hold above the $1.8 support identified by Follings in his chart. Meanwhile, the recovery could gain momentum once XRP’s price recovers above the $2.7 pivot, with a full bullish trend emerging above the $3.4 resistance.