Crypto Fear & Greed Index — today
This is the crypto market's Fear & Greed Index, updated daily. A single number from 0 to 100 that sums up the mood of everyone buying and selling right now: near 0 the market is panicking, near 100 it's euphoric.
Below you'll find today's value, how it compares with recent days, and an honest explanation of how to use it — and how not to.
Data: alternative.me, updated daily.
The five zones of the index
| Value | Zone | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 0–24 | Extreme fear | Widespread panic: many are selling, often at a loss. Historically the zone where prices are most depressed. |
| 25–44 | Fear | Caution prevails: the market is nervous and confidence is scarce. |
| 45–55 | Neutral | Neither fear nor euphoria: the mood won't tell you much, look at the data. |
| 56–75 | Greed | Optimism is growing and prices are rising: careful not to chase the crowd. |
| 76–100 | Extreme greed | Euphoria: everyone is buying because "everything goes up". Historically the zone closest to corrections. |
What you're looking at
The index doesn't measure the price of Bitcoin or any other crypto: it measures the emotions of the people buying and selling them. It combines market volatility, trading volumes, social media activity and Bitcoin dominance, and boils everything down to a number from 0 to 100.
It's useful because emotions, in markets, move in herds. When fear or euphoria become extreme, the market tends to overshoot — and overshoots eventually snap back.
How it is calculated
The calculation, maintained by alternative.me, blends several weighted ingredients: Bitcoin's volatility versus its average (25%), market momentum and volumes (25%), social media activity (15%), surveys (15%), Bitcoin dominance (10%) and Google search trends (10%).
None of these ingredients says much on its own. Together, they paint a credible picture of the market's emotional climate.
How to use it (and how not to)
The classic rule is counterintuitive: be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful. When the index reads extreme greed, the market is often overheated; when it reads extreme fear, prices have sometimes been crushed by panic more than by fundamentals.
But be careful: it's context, not a trading signal. Extreme fear can last for weeks and prices can keep falling. Use it as a mirror: if you're about to buy with the index at 90 "because everything goes up", you're probably following the crowd, not a reasoning. To dig deeper, read our guide to the Fear & Greed Index.
From mood to data
The index tells you how the market feels. It doesn't tell you what's likely to happen tomorrow. For that you need data: models that look at dozens of indicators without catching the crowd's fever.
That's exactly what we do at High Tide: every day our machine learning model publishes analyses on 30 cryptocurrencies, with a public, verified track record. The gauge above gives you the climate; verified predictions give you the substance.
The information on this page is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. The Fear & Greed Index is a sentiment indicator, not an investment recommendation.