Crypto Fear and Greed Index (Live)
A 0 to 100 sentiment gauge. Extreme fear has clustered around bottoms, extreme greed around tops.
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The full history, colored red (fear) to green (greed), with BTC price overlaid on the right (log). Below 25 is extreme fear, above 75 is extreme greed.
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Source: the Crypto Fear and Greed Index from alternative.me, daily since February 2018. It blends volatility, momentum, social media, and survey inputs into one number.
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index compresses the mood of the market into a single number from 0 to 100. Low readings mean investors are fearful, high readings mean they are greedy. It blends several inputs, including volatility, market momentum, and social media activity, into that one score.
Its value is as a contrarian gauge. The old line that you should be greedy when others are fearful shows up here: extreme fear, under 25, has clustered around cycle bottoms, while extreme greed, over 75, has clustered around tops. Overlaying it on price makes the pattern easy to see.
Sentiment is noisy and can stay fearful or greedy longer than feels reasonable, so it is a context tool, not a trigger. It works best confirming what the valuation and on-chain signals on this site are already saying.
The charts are public. The read is the edge.
These indicators are free for everyone. Inside the community you get the daily desk note that ties them together, alerts when price enters a cycle window, and the Satoshi Clock running on your own charts.
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