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Ripple's XRP Technical Analysis: XRP/USD price falls back into the range of death

Ripple's XRP on Friday was trading in very minor positive territory, holding gains of just some 0.15%.
XRP/USD bears forced to price to trade back down within the prior narrowing daily range, in which the bulls had managed to escape on 2nd April.
If the bulls fail to escape again, then each day draws the possibility closer of a $0.3000 return.

Ken Chigbo Independent Analyst

Spot rate: 0.3283

Relative change: +0.15%

High: 0.3307

Low: 0.3178

XRP/USD 60-minute chart

Price action has broken out to the upside from a descending channel formation structure.

XRP/USD daily chart

Price has slipped back within the prior range-block formation, seen between 11th January, until the breakout on 2nd April.

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Ken Chigbo

Independent Analyst

Ken has over 8 years exposure to the financial markets. He started his career as an analyst, covering a variety of asset classes; forex, fixed income, commodities and equities.

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