Crypto Fear & Greed Index
At 28 (Fear), sentiment is on the fear side of the line. This signal is currently counted as bearish.
What is the Crypto Fear & Greed Index?
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is a daily 0 to 100 score, published by Alternative.me, that compresses overall crypto market sentiment into a single number. A score of 0 means maximum fear; 100 means maximum greed. It has been running since early 2018, which makes it one of the longest continuous sentiment series in crypto.
The score blends several inputs: market volatility (compared against recent averages), market momentum and trading volume, social media activity, Bitcoin dominance, and Google Trends search data. Each component is weighted and combined into the day’s reading, published once every 24 hours.
The index is deliberately contrarian in spirit. Its stated premise is that extreme fear can signal undervaluation and extreme greed can signal a market due for correction. But as a regime indicator, sustained readings on the greed side of 50 have historically coincided with bull markets, which is how this tracker uses it.
Why it matters for the bull market
Bull markets run on risk appetite. When the index holds above 50, buyers are outweighing the fearful: volatility is being bought rather than sold, volume is expanding on up-moves, and search and social interest is building. That pattern shows up early and persists through most of a bull market’s life.
This tracker actually counts Fear & Greed twice, as two separate signals: the level (above 50 today) and the trend (whether the 7-day average is rising versus the prior 23 days). The level tells you where sentiment is; the trend tells you where it is heading. A rising average from fearful levels has often front-run price recoveries. One caveat worth owning: the index itself blends momentum, dominance and search trends, which this tracker also counts separately, so there is some deliberate overlap between the sentiment votes and those signals.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Crypto Fear & Greed Index?
A daily 0 to 100 sentiment score for the crypto market published by Alternative.me. Zero is maximum fear, 100 is maximum greed. It combines volatility, momentum and volume, social media activity, Bitcoin dominance and search trends into one number.
How often is the index updated?
Once per day. This page refreshes automatically, so the score shown here is the latest published reading.
Is extreme greed a sell signal?
Historically, readings above roughly 80 to 90 have often appeared near local tops, and extreme fear below 20 near local bottoms. Neither is a precise timing tool: sentiment can stay extreme for weeks in strong trends. This tracker uses the index as a regime filter (above or below 50), not a top or bottom caller.
Why does this tracker use 50 as the threshold?
Fifty is the line between net fear and net greed. Requiring outright greed (say 60+) misses the early phase of bull markets, when sentiment is recovering but not yet euphoric. Above 50 simply means optimists outweigh pessimists, the minimum condition a bull market needs.