360Trader Sees XRP Sliding to $1 in Days While Aljarrah Bets on Liquidity Upside

360Trader’s $1 Zone

Two XRP analysts pulled opposite conclusions from the same chart on Monday, and the gap between them now frames where the XRP market goes next. The XRP price could sink toward $1 within days, the analyst who posts as 360Trader wrote in an X post on October 26, and he intends to buy that decline rather than fade it. He expects XRP to drift out of its current range into a liquidity pocket below, a price band where resting orders from leveraged futures positions tend to cluster, and said a print near $1.00 would be his cue to accumulate. “Let’s meet around $1.00. I will park a truck there and sweep it up,” he wrote. He first warned that the market could go hunting for liquidity beneath current prices, the term traders use for clusters of stop orders and leveraged liquidations that price gravitates toward. The call extends earlier work in which he identified a fair value gap, an imbalance left behind by one-sided price delivery that price often returns to fill, below the market, and flagged the loss of the 50-day moving average with the $1.28 area as the level to defend. Vandell Aljarrah, co-founder of Black Swan Capitalist, reads the longer cycle differently. In his own X post he argued that expanding global liquidity would eventually carry XRP to far higher valuations, while still cautioning that further downside can precede the next major advance. The two men are not trading the same clock: one measures in days, the other in cycles. That view of more downside before a bigger rise is spreading across the community, and the two posts now mark the boundaries of the debate: one treats a drop toward $1 as a door to walk through, the other as a detour on a longer road higher.

The levels behind the forecast give it structure. On the daily chart, a fair value gap stretches from roughly $1.00 to $1.25, and 360Trader expects a weakening XRP to be drawn into that band. In a recent post he named $1.248 as the price that opens the door toward $1: give up that line, and the token sits exposed inside the lower half of the range he wants to buy. Read together, the $1.248 trigger and the 200-day average near $1.28 form one decision band on the chart. Above the market, a second fair value gap runs from about $1.40 to $1.48, and the short-term technical picture improves only if XRP reclaims it. Volume distribution adds another obstacle on the way back up, because the heaviest trading cluster sits between $1.35 and $1.55, making that band the key resistance zone for any recovery attempt. The token is trading near its 200-day moving average around $1.28 after losing the 50-day, so the defense of $1.248 effectively decides the next leg. A break below it, 360Trader argued, sets $1 as the following downside target. Aljarrah’s caution rests on the same kind of ground one frame higher: on the weekly chart XRP trades below the 50-week and 200-week exponential moving averages at $1.56 and $1.37, which he reads as raising the risk of additional downside. He still expects the next phase of the global debt cycle to expand liquidity enough to support a broad crypto rally, and he points to the sideways stretch before the 2017–2018 advance as proof that long consolidation can precede a major move. For now he classes the token as being in a correction, with a new uptrend unconfirmed. Macro timing is adding pressure this week as well: flows data showed XRP withdrawals at 55.75% of Binance flows into the Fed’s October 28 decision, and our running XRP technical analysis keeps the same bands marked. Readers who intend to trade the zone rather than watch it can review How To Buy XRP, and long-term accumulators typically move size off exchanges into a hardware wallet or another cold wallet once a position is built.

The Assumption Beneath $1.248

Read side by side, the two calls are less opposed than they look: both expect lower prices before anything higher. The real dispute is what a break of $1.248 would mean. To 360Trader it is an entry trigger inside a $1.00–$1.25 accumulation band; to Aljarrah it is noise inside a debt-cycle expansion that ultimately reaches everything from Bitcoin to DeFi. That is the assumption a reader can actually test in the weeks ahead: whether global liquidity expands on the schedule Aljarrah implies, or whether the market keeps grinding toward $1 first. Until the weekly moving averages at $1.37 and $1.56 are reclaimed, the chart itself leans with the first man.