Stock & crypto sentiment gauges. Score ranges from 0 (extreme fear) to 100 (extreme greed).
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Put bluntly: this is a crowd-mood meter. Zero is blind panic. A hundred is late-stage euphoria. The reading you see here is CNN's composite — the same one financial TV quotes all day — built from seven different signals: market momentum, price breadth, stock strength, the put/call ratio, junk bond demand, the VIX, and safe-haven flows. Each catches a different slice of how investors are really behaving, so when they line up, the read is unusually honest. When they diverge, that's often where the most interesting setups hide.
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index, provided by Alternative.me, measures sentiment in the cryptocurrency market. It is the same data source used by CoinMarketCap. The index analyzes Bitcoin volatility, market volume and momentum, social media activity, surveys, Bitcoin dominance, and Google Trends data. Like its stock market counterpart, a reading below 25 indicates extreme fear and above 75 indicates extreme greed.
The most useful way to think about sentiment is as a contrarian's yardstick — it tells you when the crowd is leaning too hard one way, not when the market will turn. Extreme fear readings tend to line up with moments of real stress (the exact ones everyone wants to avoid buying into, and historically the exact ones that have rewarded buyers). Extreme greed tends to precede the choppier, more reversal-prone stretches. Neither is a timing bell. Think of it as context, paired with breadth, the VIX, and your own read of the tape.
Extreme fear (score below 25) suggests that investors are panicking and selling heavily. Historically, periods of extreme fear have been followed by above-average returns over the next 3–12 months, though past performance is not indicative of future results.
The headline stock market score is sourced from CNN's Fear & Greed Index, which tracks seven market indicators updated throughout the trading day. We also show our own proprietary analysis based on five indicators (VIX, put/call ratio, S&P 500 momentum, yield spread, and 200-day MA distance) in the “Our Analysis” section below.
The crypto score comes from Alternative.me's Crypto Fear & Greed Index. This is the same data source used by CoinMarketCap and other major crypto platforms. It updates daily.
The page auto-refreshes every 5 minutes. The stock market Fear & Greed Index updates throughout market hours. The crypto index updates once daily. Our custom analysis indicators update every 5 minutes during market hours.
No. Sentiment gauges measure investor mood, not price direction. They are one of many data points that reflect crowd psychology, not a directional forecast. Timing the market based on sentiment alone is unreliable.
