Crypto analyst Steph has presented an interesting comparison between XRP’s 2017 bull run and its current 2025 market structure in a post on the social media platform 0 post, which was captured with “The $XRP playbook,” noted a repetition of its early accumulation phase that preceded its massive breakout eight years 1 technical analysis places 2017’s surge beside the altcoin’s ongoing consolidation around the $2 price level, predicting that the cryptocurrency could be entering a familiar setup for another explosive 2 Might Repeat The 2017 Blueprint XRP’s price action in the past few days has been defined by the cryptocurrency looking to break past $2.5.
This move comes off the back of a flash crash last week, which caused the altcoin’s price to create a strong downside wick on the daily 3 downside wick, on the other hand, was a quick break to the downside amidst an its price consolidation that has been dragging on since July. Interestingly, dialing the price action many years back shows XRP has played out a similar pattern like this 4 in 2017, the token spent months trading sideways before springing into an extraordinary vertical rally that turned it into one of the best-performing cryptocurrencies of that bull 5 trend, which was also noted in a technical analysis post by STEPH IS CRYPTO on X, looks at the possibility of the token repeating this rally 6 left side of Steph’s chart captures the 2017 price action vividly: a slow accumulation in early March followed by an almost parabolic ascent that pushed the price from fractions of a cent to above $3 within 7 chart highlights how the upward curvature that began around February 2017 served as the launchpad for XRP’s historic 8 framing this as the “playbook,” Steph implies that history could be on the verge of rhyming once more. 2025 Setup: The Calm Before The Storm The right side of the chart image above shows XRP’s 2025 daily chart mirroring that 2017 accumulation 9 token has been oscillating around mid $2 to form what looks like a rounded bottom 10 annotation points to November/December as the potential turning point.
Steph’s projected path shows the token consolidating between $2.5 and $3 for the next few weeks before entering a strong vertical 11 projection shows XRP breaking above $3 and then going on a climb that takes it far above its current price 12 projection line on the chart extends toward $24. This means if the 2017-style pattern repeats, the altcoin could experience an unprecedented price appreciation that brings its new price range above $20. Steph isn’t the first analyst to look at similarities to the playbook in 2017. A similar outlook from a crypto analyst known as ChartNerd predicted a breakout to $13.5 if XRP repeats the 2017 rally.
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