According to Gert Van Lagen, XRP’s macro structure has finally done one thing that is necessary. Break and hold the base neckline for seven years. “XRP (2W) – Ripple is ready to rip. A 7-year double bottom is broken. His chart is drawn on a logarithmic scale with a two-week candle, framing the movement as a multi-cycle inversion rather than a short-term pop.
Can XRP really hit $34?
Geometry is clear on the chart. The wide W-shaped base extending from the 2018-2024 Bear Market has been carved with twin rows carved into the $0.20-$0.30 region, returning to the horizontal neckline just above the $2 handle. Van Lagen marks his first breakout attempt with the Red Cross beyond that barrier, followed by a decisive surge and pullback tagging support around a $2-double area annotated by blue dots. In the log chart, the textbook breakout-retest sequence is usually the confirmation step that the technician normally looks for before projecting the target.
The price at the time of the snapshot is labeled $3.19 on the right axis. So, the XRP is traded above the neckline, but below the 2018 record high, it’s $3.40. Previous macrocaps now serve as support, so their placement is important. Stay north at about $2.00, the double bottom paper continues. The measured arrows drawn from the neckline replicate the height of the base on a multiplicative (log) basis. So, rather than adding a few dollars, an upward extension jumps into the mid-double digits.
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Van Lagen’s original purpose is explicitly derived from Fibonacci’s proportions. He sets the double bottom 2.00 expansion as his initial target and lands at “near $34”. On his scale, the projected pass surpasses the $27 and $20 gridlines, with a short tag on the $30 midterm before the average revert. This coincides with how log scale extensions are translated when long integrations are released quickly.
The left side of the graphics provides historical rhymes that readers want to notice. Between 2014 and 2017, XRP built small double bottoms within the shady accumulation zone, breaking the neckline, retesting, and accelerated vertically. Vanlagen marks the sequence at the same Red Cross and blue dots at retest on breakout, plus a vertical measurement arrow indicating how the previous base was resolved. The current pattern, covered over 2018-2025, repeats its choreography on a much larger scale.
His sketches include a roadmap of time and price using 12 forward candles (2-week bars) that mimic arcs of 5-6 months across movements when echoing the previous cycle. The first Projection Bar Vault XRP is over $11. After three candles, the blue pass exceeds $36, about six weeks after running.
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The fourth candle follows a deep retracement towards the $11 region, followed by a sharp recovery of over $30 in the fifth. The next three candles will stabilize around the $30 area before the pass lowers another slide to ~$11 and begins the start of the cooling phase. Sequences are descriptive rather than normative, but they visually lock augmented mathematics into the possibilities of market behavior.
Whether XRP can follow a steep path sketched in blue is a separate question from whether the double bottom has been technically activated. Van Lagen’s chart answers second yes. The breakout and retest sequence has been completed. First Answer – ~$34 Delivered towards FIB Expansion – Determines by what the next two weeks candles will look like.
At the time of press, the XRP traded for $3.14.
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