XRP nears golden cross as market shifts focus to altcoins

XRP is setting up one of the more closely watched technical signals in crypto right now. As of early September 2026, the token’s 50-day simple moving average was sitting at roughly $1.197, closing in on the 150-day SMA at approximately $1.238. When the shorter average crosses above the longer one, traders call it a golden cross, and they tend to treat it as a sign that momentum has decisively shifted upward. At the time of writing, XRP was trading near $1.33 to $1.35, having pulled back slightly from a September 8 price of around $1.39. That’s still a meaningful recovery from lows near $1.00 in August. What the charts are actually saying The golden cross forming here involves the 50-day and 150-day simple moving averages, which is a slightly shorter setup than the classic 50/200 crossover most textbooks describe. That distinction matters, because on the longer exponential moving average timeframe, XRP is still firmly in death-cross territory. The 50-day EMA stands at $1.2860 while the 200-day EMA sits at $1.3539, meaning the short-term average is still below the long-term one. A prior analogous moving-average configuration preceded a rally of more than 63%, lifting XRP from roughly...