XRP Still In Danger Zone Without This Key | XRP News

A price zone that held as a flooring all through all of 2025 is now blocking XRP from recovering. The $1.80 degree — as soon as a dependable assist — flipped to resistance in January 2026, and the token has not come close to reclaiming it since. Until it does, one analyst says XRP stays “in deep trouble.”

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A Channel Break That Changed Everything

For most of final yr, XRP traded inside a giant parallel channel with a ceiling close to $3.45 and a flooring round $1.80. The token stayed within these boundaries whilst its price began slipping after hitting an all-time high of $3.60 in July 2025. Lower highs and decrease lows piled up via the fourth quarter, however $1.80 held.

Then January got here. XRP closed the month beneath that degree for the primary time, and it has not appeared back. The $1.80 flooring grew to become a ceiling, and each attempt to push larger has run into that wall.

If I zoom out, I nonetheless see $XRP in serious trouble.

It is clearly downtrending with a sequence of decrease lows and decrease highs, and above all, it’s nonetheless beneath that key degree at $1.80.

As long as we don’t break this downtrend, we may anticipate that “no support zone” to be stuffed. pic.twitter.com/mNuF8O8LWo

— Sjuul | AltCryptoGems (@AltCryptoGems) March 18, 2026

Analyst Sjuul of the AltCryptoGems channel laid out the state of affairs in a latest market breakdown. Zooming out to the day by day chart, he pointed to the sample of decrease lows and decrease highs that has outlined XRP’s price motion for the reason that July peak — a construction that leaves the broader downtrend absolutely intact regardless of short-term bounces.

A 15% Rally That Still Went Nowhere

XRP did handle a stretch of features between March 9 and 16 — seven up days out of eight, its best run since September 2025. The token climbed 15% during that window, reclaiming $1.50 and shutting at $1.54 on March 16.

But the rally stalled virtually instantly. A push towards $1.60 bumped into resistance at $1.6074 earlier this week, and XRP has since pulled back on three consecutive days, now trading round $1.46. The restoration, spectacular because it briefly appeared, by no means got here anyplace close to $1.80.

For context, XRP had dropped to $1.27 on February 28 during the initial market response to the Israel-Iran battle earlier than clawing back above $1.50. The March rally was largely a rebound from that low — not a trend reversal.

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Two Scenarios, One Number

Sjuul sees the trail ahead as easy. XRP both reclaims $1.80 and pushes back inside the parallel channel — invalidating the bearish setup — or it doesn’t, and the draw back risk grows sharply.

The degree he flags on the draw back is the $1.20 to $1.30 zone. That space provided no resistance during XRP’s explosive November 2024 rally, which is what analysts call a “no support zone” — a price vary the market blew via so fast that few patrons established positions there.

Since that rally, the zone has acted as a cushion during dips. If $1.80 continues to carry as resistance, Sjuul suggests XRP may fall back towards that vary.

Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView