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.

That matters because markets are not only moved by price. They are moved by people reacting to price. Fear can make traders defensive. Greed can make traders chase risk. Neutral readings can show hesitation before the next move becomes obvious.

Some people search for it as the Greed and Fear Index; the score is the same either way.

CFGI tracks that crowd behaviour across live crypto sentiment and live stock market sentiment. Crypto readings cover the whole market and hundreds of individual assets across 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily views.

CFGI's records show spreads of more than 60 points between coins on a single day, which is why CFGI scores every asset separately. Compare every asset in crypto scores by coin.

A single price move can be noisy. CFGI uses 10 indicators so the score reflects market structure, crowd attention and trading pressure, not just whether the chart is green or red.

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. It helps users ask better questions: is fear getting worse, is greed becoming crowded, or is the market returning to neutral?

The timeframe matters. A 15-minute reading is for fast market mood. It can be useful for active traders watching sudden shifts. A 1-hour reading smooths some noise while still showing intraday pressure. A 4-hour reading is useful for swing traders who want the session trend without reacting to every candle. The daily reading is the broadest view and is best for understanding the wider market mood.

Extreme Fear can show stress, forced selling or defensive positioning. Greed can show risk appetite, momentum or crowded optimism. Neutral can be just as important because it often shows hesitation. The strongest read comes when sentiment is compared with price, volume, liquidity and the wider market. The same asset can read Fear on the day and Greed on the hour, which is the signal a single daily number cannot show.

Crypto and stocks can both be scored from 0 to 100, but the crowd behind each market behaves differently.

Crypto trades all day, every day. It reacts quickly to exchange flows, social attention, leverage, whale movements and order book pressure. Sentiment can change fast because the market never closes and a large share of activity comes from active traders, global retail flows and crypto-native liquidity.

The most fearful readings in CFGI's records all printed in the year to June 2026, and the full record book lives on the Crypto Fear and Greed Index hub.

Stocks move through a different structure. The market has defined sessions, heavier institutional participation, earnings cycles, macro data, index flows and volatility signals. Stock sentiment usually matters most at the daily level because the market's main decisions cluster around sessions, closes and macro events.

That is why CFGI separates the two. Crypto sentiment needs multiple timeframes because crowd mood can shift intraday. Stock market sentiment is led by the daily reading, with 15-minute, 1-hour and 4-hour views on the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index hub and the company pages. The homepage shows both, while the crypto and stock hubs go deeper into each market. Read more: crypto vs stock Fear and Greed Index.