XRP XRP has made considerable gains over the past month as traders continue to shower confidence on Ripple's legal win against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
For instance, XRP price has gained 25% thirty days after Ripple and the SEC filed for an immediate ruling on whether or not XRP sales violated U.S. securities laws. In comparison, Bitcoin BTC and Ether ETH are down 4% and 11% over the same period, respectively.
Now, a flurry of indicators, ranging from on-chain to technical, hints XRP can continue its uptrend going into 2023.
Bull pennants are bullish continuation patterns that form as the price consolidates in a triangle-like range after a strong upside move. In other words, they resolve after the price breaks out in the direction of its previous uptrend.
On the daily chart, XRP has been trending inside a similar technical structure since late September, as shown below. While at it, the token has also attempted to break above the pennant twice, albeit to no success. It now eyes another breakout in the coming days.
Theoretically, a bull pennant breakout increases the price by as much as the size of the previous uptrend. Therefore, XRP's bull pennant breakout can push the price toward $0.63 in Q4 2022.
That would mean a 35% price rally.
XRP's bullish technical setup receives further cues from on-chain data, showing accumulation is underway.
Notably, XRP's mean coin age — the average age of all tokens on the blockchain measured by the purchase price — has been rising since September, according to data from Santiment. The metric theoretically suggests that XRP users have been increasingly holding the tokens.
In addition, data tracker Whale Alert detected millions of dollars worth of XRP withdrawals across
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