When ordinary people see a trending topic, they click to see what’s going on. When crypto folks see one, they first look for a coin that might be connected.
This time, the headline was “U.S. storage stocks plunge; SanDisk falls over 17%,” so I dug up $BTC , which is affected by U.S. stocks.
Hot topics can bring a wave of attention. Whether that attention turns into trades is clear from the volume.