For a couple of days, XRP has shown a strong upward movement. This article confirms that the uptrend will continue and we can see potential growth in XRP. In this way definitely, it may touch $1 but will take some time.
It was going down again and the worst thing that XRP has been getting the dump gradually while another native coins in the market are still defending its position from the dump.
$1 looks a very impossible thing to happen for XRP caused by it was offering nothing to the buyers. Sometimes holders were feeling they didn't get any benefit from hold ripple coins.