On August 19 2026 the US Treasury announced it would double its buybacks of longer-dated government bonds, and risk assets rallied. After weeks of sideways trading, Ethereum rose from about $1,917 to an intraday high above $2,330, as more than $3 billion of leveraged positions — most of them shorts — were liquidated across crypto.
This is a medium-difficulty session because, once it started, the squeeze ran in one direction: the challenge is recognising a breakout out of a long range early enough to be on the right side, and not shorting a move that is being driven by forced buying.
Same engine, same hidden right-hand side — a different day's problem.