Stock Market Fear and Greed Index Today

Explore Stock Fear and Greed Scores

Per-stock fear and greed scores are coming soon to CFGI. For the first time, you'll be able to explore a dedicated fear and greed index for individual stocks and indices, including the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, Dow Jones and major companies, measured the same multifactorial way CFGI scores more than 100 cryptocurrencies today.

Each stock will carry its own sentiment reading on a 0 to 100 scale, from Extreme Fear to Extreme Greed, so you can compare crowd psychology across equities the way traders already compare it across crypto. The Stock Market Fear and Greed Index above is the first step: one daily reading for the whole market, with per-stock indexes to follow.

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: 36/100, showing Fear for the wider market trend.

Intraday timeframes (4-hour, 1-hour and 15-minute) are coming soon.

What Does the Current Stock Market Fear and Greed Score Mean?

Fear on the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index means the market is leaning cautious. Confidence is weak and participants are more risk-averse, which can signal hesitation or early-stage weakness.

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 is updated daily, one reading per trading session, calculated from that day’s market data. Intraday timeframes (4-hour, 1-hour and 15-minute) are coming soon.

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.

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.

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

Dedicated fear and greed indexes for the S&P 500, Nasdaq and major individual stocks are on the way. When they launch, you'll be able to track how fearful or greedy the crowd is in each index and company separately, with daily readings first and intraday timeframes to follow, and compare them side by side with the whole-market reading on this page.

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, with per-stock and per-index readings and multiple timeframes planned for equities. 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

$7,478

52-Week High

$7,610

52-Week Low

$6,141

52-Week Sentiment High

78 (Greed)

52-Week Sentiment Low

5 (Extreme Fear)

1-Year Change

+21.8%

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.

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.

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