XRP seems dead now... but the next step could turn everything around | My harsh opinion XRP seems dead now, stagnant on the chart and sitting near $2.49 as if it forgot how to move. But I've seen this pattern many times - when everyone thinks it's over, the real setup usually starts building beneath the surface. Sentiment is dead, charts are boring, and that's exactly when things turn sharply. Flow data shows a significant outflow again - about -8M XRP in the last 24 hours. These are large wallets dumping assets while small traders are trying to buy the dips, believing that $2.50 is safe. This is not strength, this is confusion. It usually ends up with a trap movement, not a breakout. On the futures side, the long/short ratio is close to 2.9 - that seems optimistic but to me, it's a red flag. Too many long positions in a weak area, an easy setup for a wipeout. Open interest dropped first, then began to slowly rise, which tells me new leverage is entering, not a strong conviction. It's like the market is setting a trap, waiting to punish both sides before the real direction. Technically, the wall is still the 99EMA at $2.55. Below that, the bulls don't have real control. Regaining that area with strong volume could see XRP quickly rise to $2.70 and above, but without that, it's just noise. I'm not following the green candles until that breakout happens for real. I'm still leaning towards the negative in the short term, but I'm not blind to what's happening beneath the surface. Whales are selling, retail is fading, the mood is dead - this is usually the mix before something big happens. I'm also watching