When I read what you said about Ripple news, I don't really agree with you. XRP is present in a lot of market place. Thus, its value should be exponentially moved in one way or another by these "news", that for the actual cryptocurrency situation, are far from being bad (99% of available cryptocurrency owners would cut their balls for this kind of partnership). I have considered buying XRP since I started investing in cryptocurrencies, but I have been waiting for it to fluctuate or respond to any of these positive news, which it hasn't done for the moment. I am still not understanding why it is not responding positively to these news in terms of value, maybe you have got some ideas?
Like you I also am struggling to understand why the news and announcements no matter how positive are not pushing the XRP price higher.
It has so much potential and for such a low price and still be the third largest by market capital only behind Ehtereum and Bitcoin says a lot.
The surge in price of cryptocurrency in the market are not measure by the good news and announcement cause once an altcoin is centralized the big fish in the game can force control the price as they wanted.
Meanwhile, trust matter the most in every business setting and you can't expect a crypto which is not trusted by the community to make good surge in price.
It has that impressive run around 2 years when the price hit around $3.60 but since that bull-run it really did not have much going for it. I hope it finishes the end of year on a high note rather than still be near the sub $0.30 mark.
Every crypto in the market experience surge in price during the bull run you mentioned and my advice to you if you really want make good return from your investment. Don't choose centralized coin no matter the endorsement they had received or about to.