Fear and Greed Index
Live crypto and stock market sentiment for 600+ assets, across four timeframes.
Live Crypto and Stock Market Sentiment
- Yesterday
- 48Neutral
- 1 week ago
- 60Greed
- 1 month ago
- 49Neutral
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- Previous close
- 40Neutral
- 1 week ago
- 43Neutral
- 1 month ago
- 62Greed
-2vs prev close·
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The Fear and Greed Index Lets You Understand Emotion
What Is the Fear and Greed Index?
The Fear and Greed Index is a simple way to read market emotion. It scores sentiment from 0 to 100, where low readings show fear, high readings show greed, and the middle of the range shows a market that has not fully committed either way.
CFGI scores it live for the whole crypto market, the whole US stock market and every asset inside them, from 10 indicators, across 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily views. Spreads of more than 60 points between coins on a single day are why every asset gets its own score.
Full guide: What Is the Fear and Greed Index? Start with the Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index, or compare every asset in crypto scores by coin and stock scores by company.
How to Use the Fear and Greed Index
Use the Fear and Greed Index as a sentiment map, not a trading command. The score shows how stretched the crowd is at the time of the reading: is fear getting worse, is greed becoming crowded, or is the market returning to neutral?
Extreme Fear can show stress, forced selling or defensive positioning. Greed can show risk appetite, momentum or crowded optimism. Neutral often shows hesitation.
15-minute for the mood right now, 1-hour for the session, 4-hour for the swing, daily for the regime. The same asset can read Fear on the day and Greed on the hour, which is the signal a single daily number cannot show.
CFGI is a sentiment gauge, not financial advice. In CFGI's own records, sentiment tracks same-day price closely and next-day price barely at all. Read more: How to use the Fear and Greed Index and the four timeframes explained.
Crypto vs Stock Market Sentiment
Crypto trades all day, every day, and reacts within minutes to exchange flows, social attention, leverage and order book pressure, so crypto sentiment needs the 15-minute, 1-hour and 4-hour views as well as the daily one.
Stocks move through sessions, earnings, macro data and index flows, so stock sentiment is led by the daily reading, with the intraday views on the stock hub and company pages. Read more: crypto vs stock Fear and Greed Index.
CFGI vs CNN vs Alternative.me
Only three Fear and Greed indexes are calculated from their own data: CNN's for stocks, Alternative.me's for crypto, and CFGI's for both. Every other result for this search republishes one of the first two. CFGI is the only one that scores each of 599 assets on its own, from 10 indicators, across four timeframes, with a record back to 2022. CNN scores the US stock market from seven indicators. Alternative.me publishes one crypto reading a day. Neither scores individual assets.
| Feature | CFGI | CNN | Alternative.me |
|---|---|---|---|
| Markets | Crypto and stocks | US stocks | Crypto |
| Indicators | 10 | 7 | 6 |
| Refresh | Every 15 minutes | Through the trading day | Once a day |
| Individual asset scores | Yes, 300+ crypto assets and top US stocks | No | No |
| Crypto timeframes | 15m, 1h, 4h, 1d | No | Broad reading |
| Stock sentiment | Live, 4 timeframes | Stock index | No |
| Best for | Cross-market and asset-level sentiment | Stock market mood | Broad crypto mood |
Side by side: CFGI vs CNN and Alternative.me vs CFGI. Build with the API, monitor alerts, or add embeddable widgets.
How the Fear and Greed Index Is Calculated
The index is built from 10 indicators so each reading captures price action, crowd attention, market structure and trading pressure together, never a single signal.
Extreme Fear
0 to 19
Fear
20 to 39
Neutral
40 to 59
Greed
60 to 79
Extreme Greed
80 to 100
Ten signals, one number. Every signal is scored against each asset's own history, so a reading of greed means greedier than usual for that asset, never a raw comparison between one market and another.
- Price Score 30% Is price stretched into overbought (greed) or oversold (fear)?
- Impulse 30% How forcefully is price accelerating, and which way?
- Volatility 5% Is the market unusually calm or violently swinging?
- Volume 5% Is conviction (trading volume) rising or drying up?
- Technical 5% What does the classic technical-analysis toolkit say, on balance?
- Dominance 5% Is money crowding into the safe haven, or spreading into risk?
- Social 5% How bullish or bearish is the crowd talking?
- Search 5% Is the crowd's attention spiking, and toward hope or panic?
- Whales 5% Is big or smart money buying or selling?
- Order Book 5% Are there more buyers leaning in, or sellers?
Full method: How is the Fear and Greed Index calculated?
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Fear and Greed Index?
The Fear and Greed Index is a 0 to 100 market sentiment score. Low readings show fear, high readings show greed, and the middle of the range shows neutral sentiment. CFGI uses the index to track crowd behaviour across crypto and stock markets.
What is the Fear and Greed Index today?
The live crypto reading is shown at the top of this page and refreshes every 15 minutes. CFGI also shows a live stock market sentiment reading. For deeper market views, the crypto and stock hub pages show more detail.
How often does the Fear and Greed Index update?
Crypto readings refresh every 15 minutes, so the crypto score updates continuously through the day across 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily views. The stock market reading updates through the US trading day across 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily views; the stock hub and company pages show all four.
What is a good Fear and Greed Index score?
There is no single good Fear and Greed Index score. The index measures sentiment, not quality: low readings show fear, high readings show greed, and the middle of the range shows neutral. A score is most useful when read beside price, volume and your own risk management.
Is the Greed and Fear Index different from the Fear and Greed Index?
No, they are the same index. The Greed and Fear Index and the Fear and Greed Index describe the same 0 to 100 sentiment score; only the word order changes. CFGI uses the Fear and Greed Index wording across crypto and stock markets.
Is Extreme Fear a buy signal?
Extreme Fear is not a buy signal. It shows that sentiment is heavily defensive at the time of the reading. CFGI does not predict price or tell users when to trade.
Is there a Fear and Greed Index for stocks?
Yes. CFGI publishes a live Stock Market Fear and Greed Index for the whole US market, plus a separate score for each top company, built from the same 10 indicators as the crypto index.
Is there a Fear and Greed Index chart?
Yes. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index page shows the full chart back to 2022 across 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily views, and every asset page has its own chart. The stock market chart is on the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index page.
About CFGI
The per-asset sentiment record.
CFGI is a market sentiment data company that scores crowd emotion from 0 to 100 across crypto and stock markets. Crypto readings cover the whole market and hundreds of individual assets across 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily views. The stock index gives a live daily reading for wider stock market sentiment.
Every CFGI score is built from 10 indicators: price, volatility, volume, impulse, technical analysis, social media, dominance, search interest, whale movements and order book pressure. The same data powers our API, alerts and embeddable widgets.