XRP ETFs Kept Buying For 8 WEEKS While The Price Fell Apart
In this video Kamilah Stevenson explains that for eight consecutive weeks XRP exchange‑traded funds (ETFs) have recorded net inflows, meaning new money has been added to the funds each week. At the same time XRP’s market price fell to a 19‑month low of about $1.05. She argues that this apparent contradiction reflects two distinct forces: institutional investors quietly buying XRP through ETFs (the “loading dock”) and retail traders panic‑selling, driving the price down (the “sticker”). Stevenson breaks down how ETF inflows work, cites total inflows of roughly $1.5 billion since the funds launched and a current on‑book value of about $930 million, and uses a grocery‑store analogy to illustrate the dynamic. She stresses that buying during fear, especially via tax‑advantaged wrappers like a Roth IRA through iTrustCapital, can be a smart long‑term strategy, and promotes a free Wealth Architecture Masterclass on July 22. The video includes standard disclaimer language, calls for audience engagement, and ends with a reflective message about patience versus impatience in markets.
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All right, let's get into the XRP ETFs. They are showing us something that is very, very interesting. So for the last 8 weeks in a row, money has been pouring into the XRP ETFs week after week after week. And the entire time that this was happening, the price did the exact opposite. And it's kind of interesting how you can have all of this, uh, ETF action and the price is still low. The price actually fell all the way down to about $1.05, the lowest XRP has been in roughly 19 months, the lowest in 19 months, $1.05. Let's see if it'll go lower. We'll see. But there was 8 straight weeks of buying and a 19-month low at the exact same time. Now, I want you to understand how 2 of these can be true together because some people are misreading the moment because of the price action and they don't understand what is really happening. Now I'm going to share with you the news on this so that you can start to watch the right signals. Do not watch the wrong signals. If you watch the wrong signals, you will do the wrong thing with your XRP and your digital commodities. This is the time that institutions are accumulating. If you are afraid, guess what? They are buying your fear because what they do is they buy fear and they sell greed. So if you're fearful about the market right now and you're selling, they are buying. And when you watch what happens on the other side of this, you're going to be highly disappointed that you sold at the bottom while it ran to the top. I don't have a time frame for this. I'm not here to give you a time frame for this. I am just here to tell you that this is the best time to buy. Now, I'm Kamilah Stevenson, and around here we talk wealth. And nothing I tell you is financial advice. It is only for entertainment and educational purposes. Do your own research and figure out what's best for you. I know what's best for me based on what I am researching, and I'm just sharing that with you. Now, if you do not know what an ETF is, it stands for an exchange traded fund, and it is basically a basket that holds an asset for you, in this case, real XRP. So these ETFs do hold real XRP in the basket, and what the ETFs do is they let you buy a share of that basket right inside of a normal brokerage account. For those who maybe don't want to mess with the actual spot coin. I suggest you do, but ETFs are fine as well. Now, an inflow— when I say inflow, it just means new money, uh, has come into that basket. So the fund had to go buy and hold more XRP to back up the new shares. So if I say to you that there's been 8 weeks of inflows, it means that for 8 weeks straight, more money came in than went out. And the funds kept buying more XRP for the people putting money in. So I'm telling you, there are people buying. If you think crypto is dead and XRP is dead, I'm telling you, the big dogs are buying. Now here is the number that matters, okay? And I want you to hold two different versions of it in your head at the same time. Since these funds launched back in November, the total money that has flowed into them has now passed roughly $1.5 billion. That is a real demand. That's real money, and it's showing up as we see it. And yet the actual dollar value those funds are holding recently shrank down to somewhere around $930 million because the price of XRP fell faster than the new money could arrive. Okay, so more buyers kept showing up and the value on the books still dropped. But these are two different things that's true at once, and neither one of them cancels out the other. So how do you make sense of this? Well, picture a grocery store where the shelves get restocked every single morning. Truck after truck backs up into the loading dock, and more product keeps arriving on schedule all day long. And at the very same time, the sticker price on the shelf keeps getting marked down lower and lower. So if you stare at the falling sticker, you would swear that nobody wants the product. But if you walked around back to the loading dock, you would see that the trucks never stopped coming. Okay, the person setting the price and the person filling the shelves are two completely different groups watching two completely different things. That is exactly what's happening to XRP right now. The sticker, the price on your screen is being set by short-term traders and a nervous, fearful market. And the trucks at the loading dock are the institutions that are sneaking their way. Well, I guess they're not sneaking, but you get what I'm saying. It feels like that. They don't want you to know, but they're quietly filling their baskets on a schedule that has almost nothing to do with the weekly candle. Okay? The crowd is screaming about the price and the big money is at the loading dock and it never left. So let me show you why the price fell anyway, because This is the part that kind of trips people up a bit. Money going into an ETF and the open market price of XRP are connected, but they are not the same lever. The price on your screen when you look at XRP is set by everything happening across the entire market. Every trader, uh, every seller, every panic holder dumping their bag during a scary month. So you can have the institutions steadily buying through the ETF on one side and a much larger wave of the short-term fear selling on the other side. And the fear selling can push the price down faster than the steady buying lifts it up. The inflows did not fail at all. They were just much more quieter than the panic. And the panic is always loud. We already know that. So now let me be clear about what this does and what it does not mean, okay? Because I'm not here to sell you a fantasy. That's never what I'm trying to do. I'm giving you the data, the statistics. I'm giving you the signals each time I come on here. Inflows and price are two different signals, okay?, okay? This is not ever going to be a guaranteed pump, and I'm not going to say that to you. But what inflows tell you is something bigger, and over a long enough stretch of time, it's even more valuable. Hey investor, Kamilah Stevenson here. Quick heads up for all you smart investors watching this. If you're serious about investing in a digital asset portfolio that brings you financial freedom and you like how I've been breaking down crypto but want more than just my YouTube content, I'm putting together something really cool. On July 22nd, I'll be running a free online event called the Wealth Architecture Masterclass, where you'll learn the exact roadmap I provide my high-end clients with to structure their accounts and entities so their wealth is protected, and tax plays to stop handing most of your gains to the IRS. I've never done a free live masterclass like this for it, and it's completely free, but we might have to limit spots to keep the quality high and give everyone proper attention during the Q&A. So if you want in, just click the link below this video, grab your spot while you can, and now back to the video. They tell you that while a lot of regular investors were looking at the price and losing heart and just getting discouraged, another kind of buyer was staring at the infrastructure and adding to their position anyway. That is the whole lesson that I'm always trying to share with you, is that retail continues to watch the price and institution continues to watch infrastructure. And this was institutions buying through the ugliest stretch of sentiment that we have seen in over a year at the exact moment where to most people it felt least rewarding to do it. Okay? And so I'm going to give you the honest other side of it too, because I I want you to have a full picture. These inflows have been small and they have been slowing down a bit, right? This is not a flood of institutional money crashing through the doors yet. It is just a steady drip, meaning a patient buyer showing up week after week and refusing to stop. And in some ways, that's even more telling than a flood because a flood chases excitement and a drip that keeps coming through a 19-month low is conviction. That means these buyers are convicted about what they're buying. Somebody looked at the falling price for 8 straight weeks, a lot of people actually, and they all decided that weakness was the reason to buy and not the reason to run. That is the part that I want you to continue to understand because it is the difference between the people who are going to win in these markets and those who are going to continue to get shaken out, right? Buying when it feels good is very easy for people. Anybody can do it when the chart is green and the crowd is loud and everybody at the dinner table talking about it. Your mom drama in your family. And I'm going to tell you right now, at that point, it is too late for you. So you better hope we don't reach that point because you know the doors are going to be closed at that point for the most part, right? But buying when the price is bleeding and when the comments are full of, oh, I told you that this thing was dead and this is stupid and you guys are dumb for investing in cryptocurrency. That is the part where you should be buying. And I'm telling you what I know. Okay, when every part of you wants to look away from your own portfolio, that is the move that almost nobody has the stomach for. And that is exactly when the most informed money is doing it. That is when they are buying every single week, 8 straight weeks in a row while the price is bleeding. And they'll continue to buy, by the way. So there's a principle underneath this that goes far beyond XRP wealth in almost Every market moves from the impatient to the patient. The person who panics and sells at the bottom is handing their asset to the person calm enough to buy it from them. Every one of those 8 weeks, coins were changing hands from people who could not take the pain anymore to people who were happy to keep accumulating, like me. That transfer from the weak hands to the strong hands is not a sign that the story is over. Historically, it is part of the story that happens right before the next chapter in the quiet while the crowd has already walked away. And many people are walking away from crypto. They cannot take it anymore. They cannot stomach it anymore. Now, I believe that this is opportunity, even if some people believe that everything is dead. And it actually confirms my thesis more than anything. But I do want to bring it back to you because there is a lesson about how you hold and not just what you hold. I want you to understand that if steady, patient accumulation into weakness is the smart money move, then what you have to wonder about you is whether you are positioned, whether what you are patiently building is sitting somewhere that protects everything it might become one day. And it will become that. An ETF is one kind of wrapper, meaning a basket someone else manages for a fee inside a regular account where your gains can be taxed on the way out. It will be, right?. But there's another wrapper that keeps the growth completely tax-free and keeps the asset in your own name. And that's why I do hold a portion of my XRP inside of a Roth IRA. It is through iTrustCapital because they do allow you to have actual coins inside of that account. If this patience pays off over the years, the growth is going to stay mine inside that account. And that means that the tax man is never going to get a slice on the way out. And I like it that way.. And so I want to encourage you to really open up a Roth account if you have not already. The details are in the description. Take a look. They do give you a $100 funding bonus when you fund the account. And I do want to ask you something though, and I do read the comments. If there was something that you really wanted to buy and it was on great discount, let's say it was 99% off and all you needed to pay was 1% of whatever it is, what would be your favorite thing to buy right now? There's no right or wrong answer. It could be um, a Lamborghini, it could be a mansion, it could be a yacht. Uh, what is it that if someone offered you a stinking discount where it was just— you couldn't even refuse it— what would be your number one buy? Again, I'm not talking about a smart buy, I'm talking about something you really desire. I would love to see, uh, what's at the top of your list. All right, I do read the comments and I would love to see that. Um, I don't think I told you to like the video and subscribe if you have not already, and if I did, I probably don't remember at this point because I do so much talking with these videos, uh, but I want you to understand something, you know, and I've been saying this a lot, but I really want this community to get it. A falling price and a rising demand are not a contradiction, okay? They're a snapshot of just two different groups of people making two very different decisions in the same moment, in the same season, right? One group is reacting to the price, the other is standing at that loading dock. They're filling up their baskets, they're writing the real story that nobody's watching, and this is going a, a story to be told in the future, I tell you that much. The sticker is always loud, the loading dock is quiet, okay? That's the quiet part. A lot of people want drama, they want excitement, they want to feel something, all right? And over a long enough stretch of time, let me tell you who's going to win. The loading dock is where the real story is being made and written the entire time. That is the magical story that you're going to be able to sit down at the dinner table when you're older and talk to your family about, whether it's your great-grandkids, your grandkids, whoever. You're going to be able to tell them about this time, and I want you to be able to hold that story close to your heart, and I don't want you to miss out on it, okay? So continue to stay diligent, develop some patience, and do whatever you got to do because we're in this for the long run. And as always, I want you to stay wise, stay wealthy, and I'll see you in the next video.
