The Crypto Fear and Greed Index scores market sentiment from 0 to 100. Near zero the market is fearful, which has historically coincided with prices people later wished they had bought. Near 100 it is greedy, which has tended to arrive late in a move. It is a reading of mood, not a forecast, and it says nothing on its own about what happens next.
It is published by alternative.me and blends six inputs at these stated weights:
| Volatility | 25% |
| Market momentum and volume | 25% |
| Social media | 15% |
| Survey | 15% |
| Bitcoin dominance | 10% |
| Google Trends | 10% |
The survey component has been paused by the publisher for a long time. Per component values are not published, so this page shows the composite only: it does not invent a breakdown.
Sentiment on top, the price of Bitcoin below, on one shared timeline. The two are deliberately not drawn on top of each other. They have no common unit, so a shared vertical axis would invite you to read meaning into crossings that are purely an artefact of how each one was scaled. Stacked, every vertical slice is still one moment in time, which is the comparison that is actually valid. The price panel is logarithmic, so equal vertical distances are equal percentage moves.
The coloured bands behind the index sit at 0 to 24, 25 to 46, 47 to 54, 55 to 75 and 76 to 100, which is where the published labels change. The word shown for today's reading is always the publisher's own label, never one computed here, so if they move a boundary the word stays right and only the band edge looks slightly off.
Sentiment data for information only. Nothing on this page is a recommendation to buy or sell anything.