Crypto Fear & Greed Index

The Fear & Greed Index is a sentiment gauge that condenses the mood of the crypto market into a single score from 0 to 100. A low score means fear: prices have been falling, volatility is high and traders are pulling back. A high score means greed: prices are rising fast, volume is heavy and optimism is widespread.

The idea comes from a simple observation about markets — people sell in panic when they are afraid and buy recklessly when they are greedy — so measuring the emotion can tell you something about how stretched prices have become.

The scale is split into five zones: 0–24 is extreme fear, 25–44 is fear, 45–55 is neutral, 56–74 is greed and 75–100 is extreme greed. The gauge on this page shows where today sits, and the smaller figures compare it with yesterday, last week and last month so you can see whether sentiment is improving or deteriorating.

The direction of travel is often more useful than the level itself: a move from extreme fear back into fear can mark the end of a panic even though the score is still low.

Sentiment indices are built from measurable market behaviour rather than opinion. The usual ingredients are price momentum (how far the market sits above or below its recent average), volatility (how violent the moves are compared with history), breadth (how many coins are taking part), trading volume (whether turnover confirms the direction) and Bitcoin dominance (whether money is hiding in the largest asset). Some providers also add social-media or search data.

Each input is scored on the same 0–100 scale and then weighted into the final number, so no single measure can swing the reading on its own.

Crypto prices are driven as much by crowd psychology as by fundamentals, and the crowd tends to be most wrong at extremes. Periods of extreme fear have historically coincided with market bottoms, when assets were cheap relative to what followed; periods of extreme greed have often preceded sharp corrections.

The index gives that emotion a number, which makes it easier to notice when you are being carried along by the crowd rather than by your own analysis.

Most commonly as a contrarian signal: 'be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.' Long-term investors use extreme fear as a prompt to accumulate and extreme greed as a prompt to take profit or reduce leverage. Short-term traders watch for turning points — a reading that stops falling after weeks of fear, or that stalls in greed while prices keep climbing.

It works best combined with other information: the total market cap trend, Bitcoin dominance, funding rates and the price chart itself.

Not automatically. Extreme readings show that emotion is stretched, not that it is about to reverse — markets can stay fearful for months in a bear market and greedy for months in a bull run. Anyone who bought at the first extreme-fear reading in a prolonged downturn learned that lesson expensively.

Treat extreme readings as a reason to look more closely, not as an instruction. Nothing on Coinmico is investment advice.

The reading on this page is recalculated throughout the day from live market data, and the history chart records one value per day so you can compare today's mood with any earlier point and with the Bitcoin price over the same period.

Every provider chooses its own inputs, weights and data sources, so two indices can disagree on a given day — one may include social-media chatter or Google search trends, another may weight volatility more heavily. The readings usually agree on direction and broad zone even when the exact number differs.

Coinmico's index is computed from market data only — prices, volumes, breadth and dominance — with no social or search inputs.