Ripple has a big potential with it's developer and investor, they love to start a bull run periodically then smash it like nothing. If you can catch that "ripple" on it's start you can gain 10x-15x but if you be late you can lose a lot, it is risky but if you look at yearly graph it is about time and today's rise seems like a signal. 
Decreasing and increasing prices between the predictable price levels and of course as usual as, nothing more.
Ripple is not even a real coin for me. I think its useless price movements can not make it a real and successful coin which is always trying to go much more better price levels.