XRP Falls 9.7 Percent: What to Check on Holding Period and Buying Route

XRP has fallen between 9.3 and 9.7 percent over the past 24 hours, depending on when the data was pulled, and trades at around $1.49, or roughly €1.31, on the morning of September 24, 2026. The wider market gave up far less over the same period: Bitcoin lost 3.8 percent. Anyone minded to act today is not really deciding on the price level. Three things settle the matter independently of the price: the day you bought, the route you bought through, and whether an open leveraged position sits in the way.

This article places the pullback in context using our own figures, then sets out what you can actually check. The current price action and the chart levels are tracked continuously on our XRP price prediction.

XRP Falls 9.7 Percent: The Numbers for September 24, 2026

CoinGecko data from September 24, 2026 gives the following picture. XRP trades at $1.49. The daily range runs from $1.48 at the low end to $1.64 at the high end, which puts the price close to its daily low. Volume over 24 hours stands at $5.46 billion and market capitalisation at $93.94 billion, leaving XRP in fifth place among the largest crypto assets.

Two figures take the edge off the first shock. Over seven days XRP is up between 14.8 and 14.9 percent. Over 30 days the figure is minus 1.2 percent, which is effectively where it stood at the end of August. The pullback therefore claws back part of a strong week, but it does not turn the month around.

XRP sits 59.0 percent below its all-time high of $3.65, set on July 17, 2025. That number matters more for the tax discussion further down than it first appears: it shows that a substantial share of the holdings sitting in German brokerage accounts and wallets comes from purchases that are underwater today.

XRP Against the Top 25: Our Count of 18 Coins

To establish whether XRP is simply falling with the market or giving up more than its share, we counted the daily change across every asset in the top 25 by market capitalisation. We stripped out stablecoins along with exchange and platform tokens that have no free market price; 18 coins remained.

The result: the median of the 18 assets checked is minus 4.87 percent. XRP, down 9.7 percent, is falling roughly twice as hard as the typical member of that group. Only three of the 18 coins fell further, namely Uniswap at 12.0 percent, Dogecoin at 9.9 percent and Stellar at 9.9 percent. Of the 18 assets, 15 are in the red on the day, while 17 of the 18 are up on the week.

This analysis was compiled by cryptoticker.io on September 24, 2026. Basis: CoinGecko market data for the 25 largest crypto assets including 24-hour and 7-day change, followed by a count and a median across the 18 remaining assets. The basis contains no data on liquidation volumes at the derivatives venues, no order book depth and no attribution of selling to individual addresses. Statements about the cause of the pullback would be speculation, so we make none.

Why a Pullback After a Positive Week Works Differently From a Crash

The distinction matters for what you should do. A price loss that follows a losing stretch hits holdings that were already underwater. A price loss that follows a positive week hits mainly those who bought during that week. That is precisely the group that has spent the past seven days building positions whose holding period has only just started.

From that follows a practical point that often gets lost: selling quickly out of nerves costs you, in Germany, not only the possible recovery but also the tax treatment that kicks in after a year. If you sell at a loss today, you may well have good reason to. If you sell at a profit today because you got in long ago, do the arithmetic first.

Weekly and Daily Performance Are Two Different Metrics

Price reports almost always quote the 24-hour change, because it produces the biggest number. For a buying decision it is the least reliable of the three time frames. The 7-day figure shows whether a move has staying power; the 30-day figure shows whether anything has changed at all. For XRP all three values are available at the same time this morning, and they tell three different stories.

Crypto Capital Gains Holding Period Under Section 23 EStG: Why Your Purchase Date Decides Your Tax

In Germany, crypto assets held in private wealth count as other economic goods. A sale is a private disposal transaction under Section 23 of the German Income Tax Act. The central variable is the one-year holding period: if more than twelve months lie between acquisition and disposal, the gain is tax free. If fewer than twelve months lie between them, the gain is taxed at your personal income tax rate.

On top of that sits an exemption limit. If total gains from all private disposal transactions in a calendar year stay below 1,000 euros, no tax is due. The term exemption limit is to be read literally: once the amount is exceeded, the entire gain becomes taxable, not just the excess. A sale that nudges you narrowly over that threshold can therefore cost more than you expect.

In practice, for this morning, that means: before you react to the price level, look up when you bought. Purchases made during last week's rally carry a holding period that ends in September 2027. Purchases from the summer of 2025, when XRP was running towards its all-time high, are long past the one-year mark.

FIFO: Which Coins Count as Sold

If you have bought XRP several times at different points, the question is which units a sale affects. For crypto assets the tax authorities accept the first in, first out method, or FIFO: the units acquired first count as the ones sold first. In a situation like today's that means a partial sale typically hits the oldest and therefore possibly tax-free holdings, not the freshly bought ones. Anyone who wants to shed the young positions specifically will get nowhere with a single wallet address.

Documentation Is the Real Work

Proving the acquisition date and the acquisition cost is on you. If you trade across several exchanges and wallets, there is no way round a clean set of records. Which tools read in a transaction history and produce a usable statement is something we have broken down in our comparison of crypto tax software and portfolio trackers.

Loss Offsetting: What Selling at a Loss Actually Buys You

If your position is underwater after the pullback and the purchase is less than a year old, a sale counts for tax purposes as a loss from a private disposal transaction. Such losses cannot be offset against employment income, interest or dividends. They reduce gains from other private disposal transactions in the same year and nothing else; beyond that, a carry-back to the previous year and a carry-forward to coming years are possible.

The converse matters: a loss realised after the one-year deadline has expired is worthless for tax purposes, because the transaction behind it is no longer taxable at all. If you have held a position deeply underwater for more than a year, selling gains you nothing on the tax side. Hardly anyone is aware of that asymmetry, and after a year like the last one it applies to a great many XRP holdings.

Buying XRP Under MiCA: Exchange, Custody and Destination Tag

If you want to use the pullback to buy more, the first decision is the route. Since Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on markets in crypto assets, known as MiCA, became applicable in the parts covering service providers, firms addressing customers in the EU need authorisation as a crypto asset service provider. For you this is not a formality: authorisation brings obligations on segregating client assets, on handling complaints and on disclosing fees.

Which houses can evidence that authorisation, and how fees, spreads and deposit routes differ, is set out in our overview of the best crypto exchanges; if you want to filter specifically by supervisory status, the list of regulated crypto exchanges sits alongside it.

Destination Tag: The One Mistake That Costs Money With XRP

XRP has a quirk that Bitcoin and Ethereum lack. Many exchanges pool customer balances on a single XRP address and allocate incoming payments using a numeric code, the destination tag. If that code is missing from a deposit, the balance lands on the pooled address without being assigned to your account. Recovery is possible, but it takes time and depends on support playing along. Check the tag before every transfer, including a repeat transfer to the same address.

Minimum Reserve on the Ledger

A second peculiarity concerns self-custody. An address on the XRP Ledger has to hold a reserve in XRP for it to be active at all; that amount is locked and cannot be spent. If you are sending small sums to a freshly created wallet of your own, factor that in, or a noticeable share of the transfer will be tied up.

Leverage and Liquidation: Why XRP Positions Break Sooner Than BTC Positions

The numbers from our count have a direct consequence for leveraged positions. If the median of the large crypto assets sits at minus 4.9 percent and XRP at minus 9.7, then with XRP half the leverage is enough to produce the same loss. A position at ten times leverage is arithmetically wiped out by a ten percent move against it, before fees and funding costs are taken into account at all.

Then there is the funding rate on perpetual futures, the so-called perpetuals. It is settled at short intervals between the long and the short side and typically runs against the long side after a phase of gains. If you hold a long position open over several days in that configuration, you pay continuously, whichever way the price goes.

Derivatives Are a Separate Tax Chapter

Gains from futures transactions do not fall under the one-year deadline of Section 23 EStG but are treated as investment income. Separate and narrower rules apply to offsetting losses from futures transactions. If you hold spot positions and derivatives in the same account, you are effectively running two distinct tax calculations. That is one reason not to mix the two where it can be avoided.

Levels Above and Below: Which Price Zones XRP Now Has in View

To the downside the first zone is the daily low at $1.48, which the price came close to on the morning of September 24. To the upside the first zone is the daily high at $1.64; the distance there from the current level is around ten percent. Both figures come from the same pull as the rest of the numbers in this article and are not a forecast but the documented range of the past 24 hours.

For the medium-term picture the 30-day figure of minus 1.2 percent is the soberest number: XRP stands roughly where it stood a month ago. What happened in between was movement without net change. If you are looking to build a position, the inference is that timing and haste have bought little over the month.

For a sense of market breadth it is worth a look at the largest asset: Bitcoin trades at $83,860 and has given up 3.8 percent; we track the action and the relevant levels there continuously in our Bitcoin price prediction.

What the Pullback Does Not Prove

An interpretation is only worth as much as its limits. What follows from the figures to hand is that XRP is losing more on this day than the typical large crypto asset. What does not follow is that a particular event is responsible, that a trend has been broken, or that the move will continue. If you come across an explanation online that names a single cause, ask what data supports it. We had no such data this morning, and we therefore assert nothing about it.

XRP Price Drop: What to Take Away

1. Look at your purchase history first, not at the price. Note the acquisition date for every XRP position and check which holdings have already passed the one-year deadline under Section 23 EStG. A tool that reads in your transactions and tracks the deadlines is in our comparison of crypto tax software and portfolio trackers.
2. Check the buying route before you buy more. Establish whether your provider can evidence MiCA authorisation as a crypto asset service provider, how large the actual spread is when you buy, and whether deposits and withdrawals in euros work without a detour. The side-by-side sits in our overview of the best crypto exchanges.
3. Keep holdings and leverage apart. Check whether an open futures position is forcing a decision on you that you would not have to take on the holding alone. If you hold spot only, a ten percent daily loss brings no liquidation pressure. Which providers offer which products is shown in the overview of regulated crypto exchanges.

(As of September 24, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)