should surge up to 7-9$ because it is the best digital asset for payments. Xrp takes only three seconds per transaction, combined with the lowest cost per transaction. can perform 1500+ transactions per second. also available in many exchanges today (50+).
Although Ripple is a good coin but i think it's hard to reach $7 - $9 in this year. Why? The price of Ripple now is $1.48 and its market cap is $57 millions. If The price of Ripple reach $7.5, its market cap is $285 millions and ripple will pass Ethereum and Bitcoin to become leader of cryptocurrencies world, this is too hard to happen now because i think market will not accept any coins instead of bitcoin and ethereum in 5 next years.
Anything is possible in crypto. A coin with a value of $400 could drop to less than $20 in a week, bitconnect is an example of this. And a token worth $0.15 goes more than $100 in a year and NEO is just one of the token that had risen from the ground up and without a doubt more stable than coins that have been there for years. XRP could more than $10 this year.