nice post and thanks for the update. There are plenty of uninformed haters for this coin, but those who research will keep holding XRP until the end. What we are seeing is the transfer of wealth from the inexperienced to the experienced, from nervous hands to stable hands.
Given positive news, market do not seem to react positively
https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/ripple/btcUninformed or fear and follow downward trend.
Uninformed and fear i'd say. Plus inexperienced traders who try to make a quick dollar day trading without researching the project.
I have been trading for nearly 2 decades and although trading crypto is very different, all forms of trading have similar calculating aspects...supply/demand & fundamental/technical analysis. Back when XRP was 25k satoshi, I gave my opinion here that its true value was under 9k satoshi. My post was ignored. Those who follow me here would have sold and re-bought making a huge profit. At the same time many were posting here it was still undervalued (due to its potential) in which more people bought and are currently sitting in a losing position. They lose faith in the coin and sell at a loss never to go near XRP again. No matter what news is released, its too late their faith in XRP is not there. So step in the whales and experienced traders who buy the cheap coins off the nervous hands that sell them.
Its my belief that those here who are over the top pumping this coin are doing it worse than the trolls here. The more they pump, share links to good news the coin still flutters on the exchange in value.
However XRP is a very long term investment with a great already working project. You need to hold, for several years as there will be more pumps and dumps and my advice it to ignore them or ar least re-position (sell high, buy back cheap to increase your quantity for same value)to increase your stock. I currently hold 5x my initial XRP without adding to my investment, just by repositioning.
The true current worth of XRP is around 8k sats, so my advice is to buy if you dont mind holding and seeing the project through.
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