▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com
▶ CEX Website: cex.io
A limit order at $25 sounds like a solid plan until the next available order in the book is sitting at $90.
That’s not a hypothetical. It already happened on Upbit and Kraken. Tether liquidity problems create gaps in the order book that don’t fill the way people expect. Your order doesn’t execute at $25. It doesn’t execute at all. The market skips straight past it to wherever the next available liquidity is sitting, and you either miss the move entirely or you’re chasing a price that already left.
Most people setting price targets right now are assuming orderly markets. Enough buyers and sellers at every level to move through smoothly. That’s not what happens when liquidity is thin and volatility is compressing years of price movement into days or weeks. The order book during a real XRP run is not going to look like a normal trading day.
The play that actually makes sense here is straightforward. Hold through the volatility. Don’t try to time exits on the way up with precision limit orders in a market that isn’t going to give you precision. Once XRP reaches a high and the move has played out, liquidity normalizes. Selling through a DEX or a centralized exchange at that point becomes unremarkable. Deep books, tight spreads, normal execution. The platform you use stops mattering much when liquidity is healthy.
The hard part isn’t knowing what to do. It’s not doing the wrong thing while it’s happening.
▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com
▶ CEX Website: cex.io
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