XRP is taking a little damage from this BTC pump. Even though XRP is more than five years old, it's acting like a typical shitcoin right now.

XRP is third biggest crypto in the world by market capital.
It is not performing yo-yo style ups and downs like ETH and BTC has been in the past. It is a stable crypto.
I cannot agree that XRP is stable, it was the most pump coin in 2017 but it's only carrying $.40 price now while it's ATH was $4 if I'm not mistaken.
It has its pump and dump in the past also, nothing is really stable in this market IMO.
The ATH was a momentary $3.40, but let's not blame people's greed and FOMO to a "pump and dump" scheme.
People sent every coin absurdly high, especially XRP was the top performing one (or rather, the most crazily performing one) and everyone was punished for their thoughtless actions.
Now we've seen the opposite of this, which is extremely low prices. Again people are selling their XRP for free when their value should be over $1.00 after the technological improvements and the deals Ripple has scored.
And Bitcoin ATH was around $20,000 and yet a few weeks ago it was around $4000 and now it is $8700 - so that cannot be labelled stable. I could apply the same analogy to many other crypto to give my opinion on what I consider stable or not.
XRP has no reason to be over $1, it is your opinion that it should be. As an investor who purchased many years ago I have seen a profit of many fold, I would be happy for XRP to end the 2019 year with a price of $0.45 while the other crypto around see their price fluctuate between hundreds and in the case of Bitcoin thousands of US$ in a matter of weeks with wild-west buying and selling - it is XRP that does not suffer on that scale.
For me it has been a great investment but others have their own experiences and opinions.
XRP goes up when all alts go up, and it goes down when all alts go down. This is not a very stable behaviour bro!