The major driven partys for he current gains in Ripple is Asians. There are some good news for Ripple but this gains is abnormal.
There are 55 contracts of 1 billion XRP each that will expire on the first day of every month.
This secured escrow is ended by the end of 2017.
So it is possible to come out 1 billion XRP to the market every month from 2018.
We should be careful for this.