Yesterday, Santiment reported that XRP’s social sentiment has plunged to extremely fearful levels. Posting the worst result since the notorious mid-October dip, the negative sentiment is typically a precursor to a price bounce, said the social blockchain data company in a tweet.
XRP Pessimism Favorable For Price Rebound
As this happened, Ripple’s (XRP) market value slumped below $1.90, pushing the OG altcoin below several key support levels. Now, analysts are peeling their eyes on the $1.55 long-term support, which is historically proven to contribute towards wider XRP bounce-back rallies.
This time, Santiment marks the most fearful price area extending to roughly $2.10, while greed starts to kick in at nearly $3. Normally, extreme levels of greed and wide-spread belief in the coin’s upward momentum results in retail investors buying the top while the top-tier players cash out.
Sentiment Switches, But XRP’s Price Doesn’t
Today, the broader market sentiment on Ripple coin (XRP) flipped back to bullish, Market Prophit reports. However, that’s hardly reflected on XRP’s price in spite of the utter belief in the OG altcoin’s rebound on Futures markets. Out of $3.26 million in daily liquidations, long leveraged plays on XRP’s price accounted for $2.80 million.
In spite of that, the Open Interest (OI) weighted funding rate kept switching between red & green territories, implying that the leveraged market sentiment is not leaning strongly towards either side. Eliminating excessive leverage in Futures markets is often followed by a price rebound on Spot, but that’s if the whales have slowed on taking profits.
In XRP’s case, the broader large investor sentiment points to continuing sales. Judging from the daily XRP price charts on both Binance & Coinbase, the constant profit-taking has been going on since December 7, 2025, when the Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) dipped into negative areas.
Presently trading just above the $1.90 support level, Ripple coin (XRP) is still 3 cents below the Smoothed Moving Average (SMA), portrayed in purple color. In spite of the dull XRP price action, the trading volumes held steadily above $2.4 billion on Spot, while the Futures action was twice as hot with $4.42 billion in volume & a 335% hike in leveraged options.
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The tweet reveals XRP’s positive-to-negative social media ratio has dropped into negative territory, which historically boosts the chances of a price bounce as retail doubt signals contrarian opportunity.
The chart tracks XRP’s sentiment ratio against price from mid-2025, showing a recent plunge into the “Fear Zone” (green, bounces likely) from “Greed Zone” (red, corrections common), with XRP’s price currently at ~$1.90.
Santiment views the negative commentary as a setup for gains, noting that when average investors doubt a coin’s rise, the likelihood of an actual rally increases significantly.
Replies show division: some highlight bearish factors like $2 resistance and holder sell-offs, while others predict bullish reversals tied to ETF inflows or dismiss the negativity as a buy cue.
Despite the fear, CoinGlass data shows XRP’s options open interest hiked 335% amid market recovery, with funding rates up 360% and total OI exceeding $3B, suggesting growing institutional interest.
