Last updated 9 Jul 2026, 19:32 UTC · updated through the trading day
Stock Market Fear and Greed Index Today
The Stock Market Fear and Greed Index today is 61/100, showing Greed. CFGI measures current stock market sentiment using live market data and proprietary behavioural models.
Live Stock Market Fear and Greed Index
The Stock Market Fear and Greed Index today is 61/100 (Greed), up from 59/100 (Neutral) yesterday and down 10 points from last week's reading of 71 (Greed).
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The line is the S&P 500 price, coloured by the CFGI fear and greed zone.
Red stretches mark fear, green stretches mark greed, so you can see how the S&P 500's price tracked the stock market's mood over time. Use the range buttons to zoom.
Across the full daily history since 3 Jan 2020, stock market sentiment ranged from 16 (Extreme Fear) to 84 (Extreme Greed), with the current reading at 61.
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Explore Stock Fear and Greed Scores by Company
Compare live fear and greed scores for the top US stocks, each on a 0 to 100 scale from Extreme Fear to Extreme Greed, measured the same multifactorial way CFGI scores more than 100 cryptocurrencies. Open the full stock market view to explore sentiment, price and multi-timeframe readings per company.
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What Is the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index Today?
The Stock Market Fear and Greed Index today shows whether the current stock market is being driven by fear, neutrality or greed. It gives a live sentiment reading so traders can understand whether conditions are cautious, balanced or risk-on.
Current Stock Market Fear and Greed Index Value
The current Stock Market Fear and Greed Index value is measured from 0 to 100. Lower scores suggest fear, uncertainty or weak confidence in the stock market, while higher scores suggest greed, confidence or stronger risk appetite.
- Daily Stock Market Fear and Greed Index: 61/100, showing Greed for the wider market trend.
Switch between the daily, 4-hour, 1-hour and 15-minute timeframes above to see how the reading shifts through the trading day.
What Does the Current Stock Market Fear and Greed Score Mean?
Greed on the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index means confidence and risk appetite are rising. Participants are leaning bullish, though elevated greed can also point to crowded positioning.
Is the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index a Buy or Sell Signal?
The Stock Market Fear and Greed Index is a market sentiment indicator, not a standalone buy or sell signal. Traders use it to understand whether fear, greed, neutral or extreme sentiment is present, then compare that reading with price action, liquidity and risk management.
Which Stock Market Fear and Greed Timeframe Should I Use?
Use the daily reading for the wider stock market trend, the 4-hour reading for medium-term conditions, the 1-hour reading for short-term sentiment and the 15-minute reading for intraday moves. The best timeframe depends on how long you plan to hold or monitor the market.
How Often Is the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index Updated?
The Stock Market Fear and Greed Index updates through the US trading day across four timeframes (15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily), recalculated as fresh market data arrives while the market is open. The chart plots the fear and greed score over time.
How to Read the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index Chart
The Stock Market Fear and Greed Index chart shows how Stock Market sentiment has moved through different conditions over time. Use it to compare the current reading with previous periods of fear, greed, neutrality and extreme market conditions.
Stock Market Widgets Are Coming Soon
We're building embeddable widgets for live stock Fear and Greed, so you'll soon be able to add one to your own site. Got a request or some feedback? Let us know.
How CFGI Calculates the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index
CFGI combines live stock market signals into one fear and greed reading. The modules below show whether the current Stock Market score is being driven by price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity or order book pressure.
Market-level indicator scores are the market-cap-weighted average across the tracked stocks; each company's own breakdown is on its page.
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Our stock engine is live and the data is flowing in. A developer API for stock Fear and Greed is on the way. Want early access or a specific endpoint? Talk to us.
Stock Market Sentiment Today
The Stock Market Fear and Greed Index is a stock market sentiment index: one investor sentiment index reading that summarizes how fearful or greedy investors are as a group, each trading day.
Stock market sentiment today is shaped by price action, volatility, trading volume, technical indicators, social activity and wider market behaviour. CFGI combines these signals to show how Stock Market sentiment is changing throughout the day.
S&P 500, Nasdaq and Major Stock Fear and Greed Indexes
Major individual stocks now have their own fear and greed indexes, each on a 0 to 100 scale across the daily, 4-hour, 1-hour and 15-minute timeframes. Browse every company on the stock fear and greed directory, or compare them side by side with the whole-market reading on this page. Dedicated S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and Dow Jones index readings are on the way.
CFGI vs the CNN Fear and Greed Index
Looking for a CNN fear and greed index alternative? CFGI measures investor sentiment with a multifactorial method that combines 10 indicators (price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity and order book pressure) into a single 0 to 100 reading.
The same method already powers the Crypto Fear and Greed Index across more than 100 cryptocurrencies, and now across the top US stocks with per-stock and market-level readings on multiple timeframes. CFGI data is also available through an API, alerts and an embeddable widget, so you can take the Fear and Greed Index wherever you track markets.
Stock Market Index and Market Data
- S&P 500 Level
- $7,547
- 52-Week High
- $7,610
- 52-Week Low
- $6,238
- 52-Week Sentiment High
- 76 (Greed)
- 52-Week Sentiment Low
- 5 (Extreme Fear)
- 1-Year Change
- +20.5%
What Is the Stock Market?
All flinch, no froth.
The stock market is the public exchange where shares in listed companies are bought and sold. Through venues like the NYSE and Nasdaq, investors trade ownership stakes in businesses, and broad indices such as the S&P 500, the market's widest benchmark, track their combined performance as a barometer for the wider economy. Prices move on earnings, interest rates, economic data and monetary policy, and, like every market, on crowd psychology. As a sentiment crowd, the stock market is the strangest one CFGI measures: quick to panic on shallow drawdowns, and apparently immune to euphoria, even with the index at record highs. Where CFGI's crypto fear and greed index swings between both extremes in a single quarter, the stock crowd spent an entire 21% rally year without one euphoric close.
CFGI recorded 257 stock market readings between 11 June 2025 and 10 June 2026 without a single Extreme Greed close: the index peaked at 78 on 3 July 2025 while the S&P 500 added 21% across the year, yet a 5% pullback was enough to drive it to 5, the year's low, on 20 November 2025.
Stock Market Fear and Greed Index: The Year in Sentiment (June 2025 to June 2026)
The year opened with the S&P 500 at 6,022 and sentiment climbing. By 3 July 2025 the index printed 78, in Greed, the highest reading of the entire year, during a Greed streak that ran from 26 June to 31 July. That 78 mattered for what it was not: across five years of tracking, the CFGI stock market fear and greed index has printed only 26 Extreme Greed readings, 25 of them in 2023 and the last a lone 80 on 2 January 2024. It reached its all-time high of 83 on 19 December 2023 and has not closed euphoric since.
The descent began with crypto. On 10 October 2025, in the middle of the crypto cascade of 8 to 11 October, the stock reading fell 19 points in a single session, from 49 to 30, as the S&P 500 dropped 3%, from 6,735 to 6,553. The crowd never recovered its footing: from 30 October to 5 December it logged 27 consecutive readings below 40, a sustained run of unbroken Fear or worse. Inside that run sat the capitulation. Nine straight Extreme Fear readings began on 17 November, bottoming at 5 on 20 November 2025 with the S&P 500 at 6,539, just 5% below its 28 October close of 6,891. A five-point sentiment print on a five-percent drawdown is the asymmetry in one line. Only two episodes in five years have gone lower: May 2022, and April 2025, when the all-time low of 3 arrived on 8 April. Recovery took 18 days from the low, the score returning to Neutral at 41 on 8 December as the S&P 500 climbed 5% to 6,847.
February 2026 produced the divergence stat. On 5 February 2026, the day CFGI's crypto market index printed its all-time low of 12, the stock index read 35, ordinary Fear, with the S&P 500 at 6,798. One company, one methodology, two crowds: crypto capitulated while equities barely flinched.
March was the year's deepest sustained episode. Twelve consecutive Extreme Fear readings ran from 18 March to 2 April 2026, the year's longest such streak, with the low of 6 on 30 March as the S&P 500 touched 6,344, down 7% from 6,831 on 5 March. The exit was as sharp as the entry: Neutral by 13 April, Greed at 61 by 16 April, and a 12% index rally to 7,126 by 17 April.
The year closed on the asymmetry it opened with. The S&P 500 set its record close of 7,610 on 2 June 2026 and the crowd read 56, Neutral. Six sessions later the index had shed 343 points to 7,267 and sentiment had fallen 29 points to 27, in Fear. At the highest price in the index's history, this crowd could not even reach Greed.
One honesty note our data insists on: across 248 paired sessions in the year, the daily sentiment move matched the same-day S&P 500 direction 74% of the time, and the next day's direction 46% of the time, a coin flip. The index is a mirror of the crowd's mood, not a forecast of its next move.
| Zone | Extreme Fear | Fear | Neutral | Greed | Extreme Greed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Readings | 23 | 60 | 94 | 80 | 0 |
Table: zone-day ledger, 11 June 2025 to 10 June 2026, 257 recorded readings (trading-day series).
Source: CFGI dataset, 257 readings in the year to 10 June 2026; full history from 17 May 2021, 1,339 readings.
Stock Market Fear and Greed Index FAQ
What is the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index today?
The Stock Market Fear and Greed Index measures investor sentiment on a 0 to 100 scale, from Extreme Fear to Extreme Greed. The live daily reading appears in the dashboard at the top of this page.
How is the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index calculated?
CFGI combines price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity and order book pressure into one Stock Market fear and greed reading.
How often is the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index updated?
The Stock Market Fear and Greed Index updates through the US trading day across four timeframes: 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily, recalculated as fresh market data arrives while the market is open.
What does a low Stock Market Fear and Greed score mean?
A low score (0 to 39) signals fear or extreme fear, where investors are cautious, risk-averse or pessimistic about the stock market.
What does a high Stock Market Fear and Greed score mean?
A high score (60 to 100) signals greed or extreme greed, where confidence, risk appetite and bullish sentiment dominate the stock market.
Can I get alerts when the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index changes?
Stock market alerts are coming soon while we finish rolling out the new stock Fear and Greed engine. Crypto fear and greed alerts are already available on the Advanced plan.
Can I add the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index to my website?
Stock market widgets are coming soon. We are building embeddable widgets for live stock Fear and Greed; the crypto widget is available now to embed crypto sentiment today.
Can I use Stock Market Fear and Greed data in my own app or trading bot?
A stock market data API is coming soon. The CFGI API already serves crypto fear and greed scores for dashboards, trading bots, apps and research tools, with stock market data on the way.
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 more than 100 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.