XRP is flashing a rare relative-strength signal against ETH, according to crypto analyst Matt Hughes (\u201cThe Great Mattsby\u201d), who points to a 2-week Ichimoku cloud flip that he says hasn\u2019t meaningfully held as support since 2021. With XRP also boxed inside a defined USD range on lower timeframes, Hughes frames the next phase as a conditional \u201cprove it\u201d moment: reclaim one level, and the market has room to work; fail it, and the breakout narrative stays premature.<\/p>\n
Hughes\u2019 primary claim<\/a> is anchored to the XRP\/ETH pair on a 2-week chart. In his read, there\u2019s a massive regime change: \u201cWhen looking at the 2-week Ichimoku cloud, you can see that XRP is doing something it hasn\u2019t done since 2021: flipping the 2-week cloud to support. The cloud has been a massive resistance for most of the chart\u2019s history until now (with a notable breakout in 2021, but only a few weeks).\u201d<\/p>\n On Hughes\u2019 chart, XRP\/ETH is pressing into the top side of the 2-week Ichimoku cloud, with the latest candle marked around 0.00062. His bullish read is that a clean flip, price holding above the cloud and treating it as a floor on pullbacks, would be a regime change for the pair.<\/p>\n Hughes\u2019 shorter-timeframe work shifts from relative performance to mechanics in spot USD terms. On the daily XRP\/USD chart, price is still behaving like a market that has not resolved its larger consolidation, oscillating between stacked horizontal levels while respecting sloping fan lines that visually reinforce why upside attempts have repeatedly stalled.<\/p>\n Hughes boils that structure<\/a> down to one actionable threshold: \u201cPrice moves in increments, and this Gann fan perfectly illustrates why price is stuck in its current range. Once XRP can close candles above $2.30, the move up can continue.\u201d Above that, the next targets on the daily timeframe are $2.59 and $2.95.<\/p>\n The weekly XRP\/USD chart adds the next level if that acceptance arrives. Two extension levels (drawn from the 2014 low to the 2017 high) are explicitly marked: 2.272 at $3.09882 and 2.618 at $9.00194, with Hughes\u2019 drawn path stepping first toward the low-$3 area before stretching higher if momentum persists.<\/p>\n Thus, Hughes\u2019 bullish scenario<\/a> is a two-part sequence: first, clear the USD range trigger (a sustained close above $2.30), then convert the last major zone before the 2025 high into support. He states it in more pointed terms on X: \u201cXRP\u2019s been grinding sideways for 1+ year while many other alts were bleeding. Not IF it hits $9<\/a>\u2014it\u2019s WHEN. Key flip: $3.09 becomes support and then its go time.\u201d<\/p>\n The failure scenario is simpler and more immediate. If XRP cannot secure closes above $2.30, the fan-and-range framework remains intact: rallies are still just rallies into the same ceiling, and the market risks reverting back towards $1.78.<\/p>\n However, a dip towards this price would not change anything about the long-term bullish chart of XRP. Pointing to a gap between chart structure and crowd sentiment, Hughes wrote:<\/p>\n \u201cAn actual infant in diapers and a 120-year-old grandpa who\u2019s forgotten his own name can look at this chart and go, \u2018Yep, classic breakout above the 2021 top, now flipping it to rock-solid support.\u2019 Meanwhile, every bear on X, their mailman, their mailman\u2019s dog walker, and that one guy who still thinks it\u2019s 2022 are out here screaming \u2018BEARISH! DOOM! SELL YOUR KIDS!\u2019 like it\u2019s still the bear market special. Bro, even my grandma\u2019s bingo partner is bullish at this point. Wake up and smell the bull fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n At press time, XRP traded at $1.9799.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" XRP is flashing a rare relative-strength signal against ETH, according to crypto analyst Matt Hughes (\u201cThe Great Mattsby\u201d), who points to a 2-week Ichimoku cloud flip that he says hasn\u2019t meaningfully held as support since 2021. With XRP also boxed inside a defined USD range on lower timeframes, Hughes frames the next phase as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":128106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}XRP Roadmap To $9<\/h2>\n