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What is the crypto Fear & Greed Index?

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is a daily 0 to 100 reading of market sentiment, published by alternative.me. Low readings mean fear; high readings mean greed.

Where does the Fear & Greed number come from?

Its publisher builds it from several measures of the market's mood, which it describes as including volatility, momentum and volume, social media activity, Bitcoin's share of the market and search interest. CryptoWeeklies does not compute the index; it republishes the daily value and builds its own views on top of it.

How does CryptoWeeklies show Fear & Greed?

As the daily value beside its 30-day and 100-day averages, and on the Bitcoin sentiment matrix as a table of what Bitcoin's price did 30 and 90 days after each range of readings. In the Indicators views it is treated as a sentiment overlay on top of the Cycle Position oscillator, not as a model of its own.

What can the Fear & Greed Index not tell you?

Sentiment can stay at an extreme for months, and one number for the whole market says nothing about any single coin. Before reading extreme greed as a top or extreme fear as a bottom, look at the forward-return table: it shows what actually followed each range of readings, which is not always what the folk wisdom expects.

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