XRP circualtion is aproximately 30% of total ammount. Rest of coins are held by the team, so they could afect the rage slightly. In such terms, it is hard to predict future or Ripple, especially, when most of holder have no voice.
Affect it slightly? I do not think so. As long as the team is holding huge part of it, the possibility of manipulations will always be there and for that reason, investing long term in a centralized product for a team which I believe are just there to want to load up their pocket is not the thing.
Well, it may be the year of ripple or not, but one thing for me is that even though I trade the short term for profit, I still focus more on trying to sell off as long as I see I have gotten enough. It is ripple that is bound to increase hugely and drop hugely, and as far as I am concerned, that is just some big time pumps and dump market.