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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.