Compounded price return for every calendar month on record. Read down a column for seasonality, across a row for the year's rhythm.
XRP's grid is a study in dormancy and detonation. Long stretches of its history are rows of pale cells — months of near-zero drift while the market waited out the SEC lawsuit years — punctuated by a handful of columns where the color scale maxes out, most famously the explosive move in late 2024. Few large caps concentrate this much of their total return into this few months.
That distribution matters for how you read the medians: XRP's median month is modest precisely because most months were quiet, while the yearly totals swing on whether a given year contained one of the detonations. The Best/Worst marks on the toolbar are a quick way to find exactly which months carried each year.
Because they were. For long stretches — notably during the SEC lawsuit years — XRP drifted with low volatility while the rest of the market trended. The pale cells are honest output of the shared color scale, not missing data.
From XRP's first daily perpetual candle on Binance in early 2020 through the latest completed close, with the current month shown italic as year-to-date until it finishes.
Toggle them to ring each year's single strongest and weakest month while dimming the rest. On XRP they make the concentration obvious — a large share of its lifetime return sits in a handful of ringed cells.