that you can relax and just wait- say for an year at most... (perhaps within few months ). You don't even have to depend on trading and exchanges that much for 1 USD. If ripple successfully moved even 5% of global Swift remittance movement ( 300 billion ) - to make ti possible in smooth manner and use XRP collateral on RC Cloud XRP will have to be between 2 to 3 USD.

if its not, market participants will get greedy to grab the XRP bandwidth ( for ability to remit more then their share ) and it will shoot up even more :-)

So at this point, ripple XRP's evaluation to 3 USD is a given in my books and also as per some other financial people's opinion ( who are much more wise, old and smarter then myself ) . It is just matter of time, as projects go live and one aftr the other operations kick off.

i completely stopped worrying about exchanges and trading. I just have my XRP in cold wallet on my usb drive and will take it out when it is 1 USD and beyond and start averaging down all the way till 3 or 4 USD.
Good luck.