Your technical analysis for XRP may be correct as the market experienced a minor retracement between yesterday and the previous day. The only thing is that the XRP team released the FA headlines right at a time when XRP looked very much ready for a big pump. Let's hope the price will drop in the near future as it looks like the XRP army is now in action again and ready to ride it back to the top throughout the 2017 bull market season.
there should have been momentum for an increase that could be done by xrp last month and earlier this month where all the altcoins started to reach their ATH, but xrp just to be able to touch ATH $3.40 - Jan 07, 2018 also can't be done.
currently xrp is only at a price of $ 1.20 and includes a good price compared to last year.
hopefully bitcoin momentum will increase will be followed by xrp in the following week to close the end of the year.
And until now there hasn't been any change in the price of XRP even though bad things no longer happen to XRP where the team will always improve themselves to be better before entering the new year, because I personally still like XRP in general.
it should be because there are no problems with xrp it's time for xrp to improve its performance so that it can reach ATH which has not been able to pass for a long time. even though other altcoins have formed the newest ATH.
we will wait for the momentum for bitcoin to increase and hopefully xrp can make it increase, because the opportunity is wide open.