XRP traders bet on a rebound as price slips to $1 and bearish chatter surges
XRP traders are betting on a rebound even as the token struggles around $1 and online commentary turns its most bearish in three months. Futures open interest and trading volumes have climbed, with Binance and OKX traders heavily skewed toward leveraged long positions.
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XRP traders are betting on a rebound despite the token's price slipping to $1 and online commentary turning bearish. Futures open interest and trading volumes have climbed, with Binance and OKX traders heavily skewed toward leveraged long positions.
Imagine you're at a big party with a lot of people who think XRP's price will go up. They're all betting on it, but some people are also betting it will go down. If XRP's price goes below $1, it could cause problems for those who bet it would go up.
Analysis
XRP Traders' Rebound Bet: A Closer Look
XRP traders are increasingly betting on a rebound even as the token struggles around $1 and online commentary turns its most bearish in three months. Futures open interest, the money tied up in outstanding derivatives positions, rose to about $2.78 billion on Monday, up 2% over 24 hours, with trading volume jumping 55% to roughly $1.17 billion, according to CoinGlass. More than three accounts on Binance held long XRP positions for every one holding a short, and the ratio among the exchange's largest traders was about 3.6 to one. OKX showed the same 3.6-to-one split.
A long position is a bet that the price will rise. Leverage lets a trader make a larger bet than their money would otherwise buy, at the cost of being automatically forced out if the market moves far enough against them. Accounts holding long XRP positions for every one holding a short.
Sentiment has gone the other way, meanwhile. Commentary about XRP across X, Reddit, Telegram, and other channels reached its most negative level in three months this week, onchain analysis firm Santiment said, after the token failed to rally. XRP trades around $1, down from above $3 at last year's highs.
The scale of the positioning is easier to see when measured in tokens. About 2.77 billion XRP now sits in futures positions, up from closer to 2 billion earlier this summer and nearing the levels last seen when the token was worth several times more. The ledger is getting busier too. Nearly 50,000 addresses were active over a 24-hour stretch, the most in more than two months, per Santiment, after activity slid toward its 2026 lows in July. An active address is a wallet that sent or received anything during the period. It shows more wallets are using the ledger, but not whether the people behind them are buying, selling or shuffling tokens between their own accounts.
CoinGlass data show the long-to-short ratio across all venues at about 0.93 over 24 hours, indicating market-wide positioning is close to balanced. The heavy long bias sits on Binance, OKX and among their bigger accounts. Watch what happens if XRP breaks below $1, as leveraged longs that run out of collateral get closed by the exchange, which could mean selling into the market.
Key points
- XRP traders are betting on a rebound despite the token's price slipping to $1.
- Futures open interest and trading volumes have climbed, with Binance and OKX traders heavily skewed toward leveraged long positions.
- Sentiment has turned bearish, with commentary about XRP reaching its most negative level in three months.
- The ledger is getting busier, with nearly 50,000 active addresses in 24 hours.
- A break below $1 could trigger forced selling from overleveraged longs.
If XRP's price rebounds, it could lead to a significant increase in the token's value. Traders are already betting on a rebound, and a break above $1 could trigger a surge in buying.
If XRP's price breaks below $1, it could trigger forced selling from overleveraged longs, leading to a significant decrease in the token's value. The heavy long bias on Binance and OKX could exacerbate the situation.
