When unconfirmed news broke out yesterday via CoinTelegraph and CoinGecko that SEC has approved ISHARES Bitcoin spot ETF, BTC price rose from $27,754.01 to $30,224.46 representing 9% pump in less than 3 hours.
Eventually, when the news was debunked as fake, BTC fell back to $28,052.24 leading to some trader cashing out over $2million in leverage trading and others who initially shorted it (primarily because the next liquidity zone is thought to be at $24k - $25k) being liquidated.
Here are the news that triggered the price action of BTC between 09:00 UTC and 13:00 UTC:
Although the news was confirmed to be fake but what happened yesterday was a glimpse of what will happen if SEC finally approves BTC spot ETF in the coming months hopefully.