A single number from 0 to 100 that puts the whole crypto market's current mood on a scale — from panic to euphoria. The lower the value, the more fearful; the higher, the greedier. The data updates once a day, read live below.
Red on the left is fear, green on the right is greed, and the needle points to the current value.
A sentiment gauge does not predict price. It only compresses the market's mood into a single number, as a reminder not to get swept along by the crowd. Your decisions still need your own judgment and your own risk tolerance.
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Sign up on Binance with BN771 →The crypto Fear & Greed Index, compiled by alternative.me, blends several signals — volatility, market momentum and volume, social-media buzz, market dominance — into a single number from 0 to 100. Zero means extreme fear, with everyone on edge; 100 means extreme greed, with the whole feed shouting "get in." Its purpose is to let you feel the market's emotional temperature through the screen, right now.
Why bother watching it? Because most people fall apart emotionally exactly when prices crash and the index drops into extreme fear — that's when they sell at the bottom. And when the index spikes into extreme greed and everyone is making easy money, that's when they most often chase highs. Warren Buffett's line — "be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful" — describes this contrarian mindset. The extreme-fear zone is often not far from a local bottom, while the extreme-greed zone calls for extra caution.
But keep this front of mind: it's a sentiment reference, not a buy or sell signal. The index can sit in extreme fear for weeks while prices keep grinding lower; it can also stay pinned in the greed zone for a long time while the market keeps rising. Treat it more as a "take a breath" reminder: when you notice you're making decisions based on an extreme reading, stop and ask whether your emotions are steering you off course.
A few practical uses. First, pair it with dollar-cost averaging — in the fear zone you can keep buying, or even pick up a little more cheap supply, rather than stopping your contributions. Second, don't use it as an entry or exit trigger for leverage; the lag and noise in a sentiment gauge make it a poor tool for precise timing. Third, read it alongside the cycle and the fundamentals rather than making single-point calls. To understand what goes into it and where it falls short, read the Fear & Greed Index explained.