Key Takeaways
Stellar’s (XLM) price flash-crashed to $0.16 before bouncing and staging a recovery.
Despite its resilience, XLM has created several lower highs and traded below short- and long-term resistance levels.
With technical indicators signaling bearishness, the main question is whether the XLM bounce is a relief rally or a genuine trend reversal.
The XLM price has fallen under a diagonal resistance trend line since November 2024.
The trend line resulted in numerous rejections, with the most recent one occurring in August 2025 (red icon).
While the XLM price bounced after that decline, it failed to reach the trend line, a decisive sign of weakness for the price movement.
Last week, the XLM price fell to a low of $0.160 but bounced (green icon), creating a massive long lower wick.
While the wick prevented a breakdown from the $0.230 support area, the sheer magnitude of the decline is a cause for worry.
Momentum indicators are on the precipice of a breakdown. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) briefly moved below 50 while the Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) made a bearish cross (black circle).
Therefore, the XLM price action remains undetermined, as the lower highs are bearish but the bounce is bullish.

However, momentum indicators are decisively bearish, since both the RSI and MACD are on the precipice of breakdowns.
Because of this, a decline to the $0.230 horizontal support area is more likely than a breakout above the diagonal resistance.
The daily time frame chart is slightly more bullish than the weekly ones, especially when looking at Coinbase’s XLM to USDT chart, which had a much shallower breakdown compared to Binance’s.
The daily chart shows that XLM has traded within a descending parallel channel since July 2025 and bounced at its support trendline on October 10.
The descending parallel channel and the $0.320 horizontal area remain intact, which also supports the bounce.

However, like the weekly time frame, the RSI and MACD readings are bearish, the former below 50, and the latter negative.
Even in this short-term bullish scenario, the XLM price faces several short-term resistances before it can move higher.
More specifically, XLM must break out from a diagonal, horizontal, and Fibonacci resistance level, all of which are located between $0.33 and $0.35.
XLM has traded under a diagonal resistance since Oct. 7, failing to break out from it yesterday.

Today, the XLM price is attempting another breakout. Even if successful, it must break out above the Fibonacci and horizontal resistance at $0.35.
Therefore, the XLM price has its work cut out for it if it wants to initiate a bullish trend reversal.
Stellar’s price remains at a crossroads, with bullish and bearish signals developing in various time frames.
The bounce from $0.16 showed strong demand, but resistance levels at $0.33–$0.35 prevent a real recovery.
Momentum indicators are leaning bearish, suggesting that further caution is needed.
The risk of another leg down remains high unless XLM can clear its key resistance zones.