Fear and Greed Index vs Open Interest
Open interest measures how much money is committed to futures; the Fear and Greed Index synthesises
broad sentiment.
Open Interest
Derivatives · positioning
less leverage
more leverage
How much is open, not direction.
Fear and Greed Index
Whole market · sentiment
Fear
Greed
Reads the crowd’s mood across a whole
market.
The key difference: open interest shows how much is at stake, not whether the crowd is fearful or greedy.
Source: CFGI
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