March 17, 2026 ChainGPT

Analyst: XRP May Need Five Macro Cycles — $153 Target, $100 Not Until Cycle 5

Analyst: XRP May Need Five Macro Cycles — $153 Target, $100 Not Until Cycle 5
Analyst TARA (@PrecisionTrade3 on X) laid out a long-range, price-driven roadmap for XRP that suggests the token may need as many as five macro cycles before clearing $100. The projection — built from conservative, textbook targets and mapped on a 12-month XRP/USDT (Binance) chart — measures price only, not time, meaning the sequence could take years and is highly dependent on market dynamics. Key takeaways from TARA’s roadmap - The plan is sequential and conservative: many waves, many corrections, many years. - Cycle targets (price-only): - Cycle 1: $3.65 (marked as complete) - Cycle 2: ~$8.68 - Cycle 3: ~$22.50 - Cycle 4: ~ $59 - Cycle 5: ~ $153 — implying XRP doesn’t exceed $100 until the fifth leg. - The model is not forecasting a parabolic, uninterrupted rise; TARA expects multiple significant pullbacks along the way. She explicitly warned of at least two major corrections en route to the $22 area and expects a conservative retracement to roughly $3.65 during that sequence. Timing and variables TARA emphasized she isn’t projecting calendar dates. Asked whether the path could stretch decades, she suggested the current pace might imply “maybe 10 years,” though acknowledged many factors could accelerate the cycles while leaving the price targets intact. In short: targets would stay the same, but the speed at which the market travels through them could vary. Near-term technical view TARA’s nearer-term read remains cautious. In a March 9 post she flagged Fibonacci levels hanging over price action: - Resistance: 0.618 at $1.47 - Support: 0.5 at $1.33 (a break below would be needed to complete the current fifth wave) - Deeper support: 0.786 at $0.87 — the level she expects before a major “takeoff” into a Wave 3 scenario. She reiterated that XRP could still drop to ~$0.87 before printing new highs. However, she noted a conditional short-term upside: if XRP breaks above $1.47 and Bitcoin targets $75.4k–$79k, XRP could run up to about $1.88 (roughly $2.02 on Coinbase due to exchange spreads) before any deeper retracement back toward $0.87. Market context TARA also pointed to momentum nuance: Bitcoin looked poised to test the mid-$70k area, but XRP’s RSI was not “breaking out,” which she interpreted as the current move being corrective rather than the start of a sustained new trend. At the time of the posting XRP was trading around $1.50. Bottom line: TARA’s map is a conservative, price-target-first blueprint that keeps a nine-figure outcome on the table — but only after multiple cycles and corrections, and likely over a multi-year horizon unless macro conditions accelerate the pace. Read more AI-generated news on: undefined/news