Retailers are piling into XRP and Ether as both tokens slide, the kind of crowd behavior that more often precedes further downside than a point of rejection.
XRP drew 3.02 bullish social media comments for every bearish one on Monday, its most positive reading in five weeks, according to Santiment. Ether ran at 2.31 and bitcoin at 1.40, which the firm classified as neutral. Bitcoin and Ether both opened higher and faded throughout the day, so the highest enthusiasm lands on the assets that are falling.
Sentiment readings like these are used as contrarian signals because audience enthusiasm usually peaks near local peaks.
“Crypto typically moves against what the crowd loudly expects,” Santiment wrote, adding that strong bullishness on XRP or Ether while prices are falling could add short-term downside risk or slow any recovery.
Bitcoin’s flat reading, meanwhile, is the healthier one. Retailers chasing the smaller tokens while remaining neutral on bitcoin is narrow speculation, not broad greed, and rallies have more room when the crowd hasn’t already penetrated the trade at higher prices. XRP traded near $1.09 on Monday, down from the week.
