Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index
Bitcoin & Crypto Fear and Greed Index
Last update: 9/1/2026, 00:00:00
What is Fear and Greed Index?
There are various indices/indicators in order to understand the situation in the markets, to see in which direction the investor psychology moves and in what situations this psychology begins to deteriorate. Bitcoin fear and greed index is one of the most important of these. Fear & Greed, namely Fear and Greed, is an index that measures these two emotions that have the most impact on investment decisions.
Extreme fear can be a sign that investors are too worried. That could be a buying opportunity.
When Investors are getting too greedy, that means the market is due for a correction.
Fear and Greed Index History (last 30 days)
Crypto Fear and Greed Index Data Sources
Volatility (25%)
We're measuring the current volatility and max. drawdowns of bitcoin and compare it with the corresponding average values of the last 30 days and 90 days. We argue that an unusual rise in volatility is a sign of a fearful market.
Market Momentum/Volume (25%)
Also, we're measuring the current volume and market momentum (again in comparison with the last 30/90 day average values) and put those two values together. Generally, when we see high buying volumes in a positive market on a daily basis, we conclude that the market acts overly greedy / too bullish.
Social Media (15%)
While our reddit sentiment analysis is still not in the live index (we're still experimenting some market-related key words in the text processing algorithm), our twitter analysis is running. There, we gather and count posts on various hashtags for each coin (publicly, we show only those for Bitcoin) and check how fast and how many interactions they receive in certain time frames. A unusual high interaction rate results in a grown public interest in the coin and in our eyes, corresponds to a greedy market behaviour.
Surveys (15%)
currently paused
Together with strawpoll.com (disclaimer: we own this site, too), quite a large public polling platform, we're conducting weekly crypto polls and ask people how they see the market. Usually, we're seeing 2,000 - 3,000 votes on each poll, so we do get a picture of the sentiment of a group of crypto investors.
Dominance (10%)
The dominance of a coin resembles the market cap share of the whole crypto market. Especially for Bitcoin, we think that a rise in Bitcoin dominance is caused by a fear of (and thus a reduction of) too speculative alt-coin investments, since Bitcoin is becoming more and more the safe haven of crypto.
Trends (10%)
We pull Google Trends data for various Bitcoin related search queries and crunch those numbers, especially the change of search volumes as well as recommended other currently popular searches.
Source: alternative.me