Ripple (XRP) has had a very long consolidation period. It's taken a lot of patience for finding just the right buying opportunity. However, if you look at the Poloniex chart, there's enough past information to clearly see the pattern that XRP is making against bitcoin. The bull run that Bitcoin started in March of 2017 has effected the price for the last 3 1/2 years. What seems clear is the pattern is repeating and it's coming to an end. If history repeats itself, bitcoin should break out of it's macro move into a new bull run. Will this one be bigger than the last? It's unclear, but XRP has made some of the biggest deals and have been working furiously behind the scene. The jury is out, but the evidence is clear things are going to heat up in the next few months.