"Erased 26 Days of Selling in One Candle" Cuts Both Ways I've been rough on $XRP this week, so credit where it's earned: buyers ripped it back to $1.15 in a single day, and that's a real show of force after weeks of drift. When a market moves that fast, it tells you demand was coiled, not gone. But I'd read the popular framing more carefully. "Erased 26 days of selling in one candle" sounds triumphant. Flip it over. A move that violent usually means shorts getting squeezed and leverage firing, not steady spot accumulation. Open interest hitting a two-month high says the same thing. Fast candles built on positioning tend to give back as fast as they came. The genuinely encouraging part isn't the candle; it's underneath it. Large XRPL transactions jumped 280%, and AI-agent payments crossed 2 million. That's usage, and usage is the thing I've said all along XRP actually needs. If the network activity is real, the bounce has something to stand on. So here's the honest scorecard. One green day doesn't undo my caution. A daily close above the 50 EMA, which XRP hasn't managed since May, would. Show me that, and I'll move. 📊 #Ripple #Altcoin Season#