Crypto Fear and Greed Index, live market sentiment on one dial
One 0 to 100 reading of how fearful or greedy the crypto market is right now, built from live market data and refreshed through the day: the MyCryptoParadise Fear and Greed Index. See when the crowd runs hot, when it capitulates, and the sub signals behind the score.
- What it measures
- The balance between fear driven selling and greed driven buying across the crypto market, condensed into a single 0 to 100 score.
- How to read it
- 0 is extreme fear, 100 is extreme greed. The closer the needle sits to an extreme, the more one sided the crowd has become.
- Why it matters
- Emotional extremes tend to precede reversals: crowds are usually most greedy near tops and most fearful near bottoms.
Live Crypto Fear and Greed Index
This is the MCP Positioning Index, the second instrument beside our Fear and Greed Index above. The dial above reads how the crowd feels. This one reads what the money underneath is actually doing, and the days when the two disagree are exactly the days worth reading closely.
MCP Positioning Index: what the money is doing underneath the market's mood
The index fuses a fixed set of our own graded market reads into one 0 to 100 positioning score. Sentiment tells you how the market feels; positioning tells you how it is actually placed. Below both we publish the one thing almost nobody does: how the market historically behaved after each fear and greed reading.
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Zero means washed out: the sellers who could be forced out largely were (extreme fear). One hundred means crowded and leveraged (extreme greed). A positioning reading, not a probability.
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The what-if dial drag it
Drag the gold needle to any fear or greed reading and see what the long peer record did over the next thirty days. The purple needle is the MCP Positioning Index right now; the faint tick is today's crowd sentiment reading. This is history, not a forecast.
Drag the needle to read what history did after any reading.
The fear and greed record, since 2018 history
The fear and greed reading day by day since 2018, with bitcoin's price, banded by zone. Hover any day to read the reading, the price, and what the next thirty days actually did. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom.
Hover the chart to read the fear and greed value, bitcoin's price, and what the next thirty days did on the record. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom.
What historically followed each reading 30 days later
The one thing no other fear and greed index publishes: how bitcoin actually behaved over the next thirty days after each reading, measured on the long public record. This is descriptive history, not a forecast, and not the same as a calibrated probability.
| Reading | Range | Days | Bitcoin higher 30 days later | Average 30 day move |
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| Extreme Fear | 0 to 24 | 679 | 59% | +3.1% |
| Fear | 25 to 44 | 898 | 48% | +0.1% |
| Neutral | 45 to 55 | 493 | 55% | +4.2% |
| Greed | 56 to 75 | 749 | 53% | +5.0% |
| Extreme Greed | 76 to 100 | 281 | 60% | +13.1% |
Across the whole record bitcoin was higher thirty days later 54% of the time, so compare each row against that base rate. Based on 3,100 daily readings since 2018-02-01 through 2026-08-01. Descriptive history, not a forecast. Data source in the note at the end of this panel.
Mood versus money daily log
Two readings of the same market, side by side: how the crowd feels and how the money is actually placed. The gap is the product. Mood can run greedy while positioning stays washed out, and the days when the two disagree hardest have historically been the ones worth studying. We log the gap every day, in the open.
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The comparison history is accruing day by day. Come back tomorrow to watch it grow.
One point per day since the log began. The record only grows forward, which is the point: the divergence between mood and money is published here, not promised.
Why we read positioning beside sentiment
A fear and greed index reads the crowd's mood, and the crowd is usually most fearful near lows and most greedy near highs. The MCP Positioning Index reads the other layer: the real forced flows underneath that mood. Extreme fear here means the sellers who could be forced out largely already were, measured from real market flows rather than surveys or chatter. Extreme greed means the maximum amount of leverage that can be forced to unwind. Mood is a feeling; positioning is market physics.
Here is the part most sentiment pages skip. When we measured the public fear and greed record against what bitcoin actually did next, the simple contrarian rule did not hold cleanly at thirty days. On the record bitcoin rose about as often after extreme greed as after extreme fear, and by more on average. That is exactly why one dial is not enough, and why we publish the record below instead of a slogan.
The two indexes are deliberately different instruments, and they are meant to disagree. Sentiment swings with the crowd; positioning moves only when real flows move, so it reads calmer by design. The gap between them is logged daily above, and the Positioning Index keeps building its own public record in the open: every component has its own graded history, and the composite accrues its forward record before any stronger claim is made. Until then it is exactly what the label says: a reading, not a probability.
Fear and greed, defined
Crypto fear and greed index
A zero to one hundred gauge of market sentiment, where low readings mean fear and high readings mean greed. It is used as a contrarian tool, on the idea that extremes in crowd emotion tend to precede reversals. MyCryptoParadise computes its own and publishes the historical record of what followed each reading.
MCP Positioning Index
A MyCryptoParadise composite that reads how the market is actually placed rather than how it feels, fused from a fixed set of the company's own graded market reads. It maps market positioning onto the same zero to one hundred fear and greed scale so mood and money can be compared directly. What goes in and how it is weighted is the method. It is a positioning reading, not a probability.
Contrarian reading
Using a sentiment extreme against the crowd: treating extreme fear as a sign that forced selling may be spent and extreme greed as a sign that forced-unwind fuel is high. It is a way to frame risk, not a trigger, and it works only as often as the historical record shows, which is why that record is published here.
Fear and greed tells you the mood. These tell you the mechanics behind it.
Open them to see the forced flows underneath the sentiment. They are context, not forecasts.
How to read the index: the four zones
The dial above moves through four zones. Each describes a different crowd, and a different kind of risk.
0 to 24 Extreme fear
The crowd is capitulating. Selling is driven by emotion and forced exits rather than analysis, and positioning gets washed out. Historically the zone where downside momentum starts to exhaust itself.
25 to 49 Fear
Sentiment is negative but orderly. Traders are cautious, volume thins out, and rallies get sold. Markets can sit here for long stretches while a base forms.
50 to 74 Greed
Optimism is building. Momentum attracts buyers, dips get bought, and leverage starts creeping up. Trends often live in this zone, which is exactly why it deserves attention rather than comfort.
75 to 100 Extreme greed
The market runs hot. Long positioning is crowded and leveraged, and everyone who wanted to buy largely has. A small shock can force that crowd to unwind, which is where sharp corrections are born.
The dial colors greed green because the mood is bullish. The risk reads the other way: the deeper into a zone the market sits, and the longer it stays there, the more one sided the positioning behind it.
For the ParadiseTeam, market sentiment is one of the layers behind every decision we make, and every trade we share inside ParadiseFamilyVIP.
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Six ideas behind the dial above. Open any card to go deeper.
A contrarian dial, not a countdown
The classic use is contrarian: when everyone is fearful, the sellers who could be forced out largely have been; when everyone is greedy, the buying power that could push higher is largely spent. Extremes describe a crowd that has already acted.
But an extreme is not a timer. Markets can stay greedy for months in a strong trend and fearful for months in a base. Professionals treat the extremes as a risk dial: how aggressive or defensive to be, never as a buy or sell trigger on its own. The record on this page shows why.
What moves the score
The index condenses several market reads into one number. Volatility: sharp swings, especially to the downside, read as fear. Momentum and volume: strong demand on rising volume reads as greed. Social activity: the tone and intensity of crypto conversation. Dominance and trend interest: where money hides and what the crowd is searching for.
No single input decides the score. That is the point: one emotional signal can lie, a fused reading across independent inputs is much harder to fool.
Timeframes: one question, different clocks
The timeframe selector above asks the same question over different windows. 4 hours reads the mood of the session: fast, reactive, useful around news and sharp moves. 1 day reads the swing: slower, steadier, the horizon most position traders care about.
The 15 minute and 1 hour views sharpen the dial further for intraday timing. They are part of the PRO Paradiser membership, alongside the deeper sentiment history. See what PRO Paradiser includes.
Sentiment Insights: the signals under the hood
Most visitors never open the second tab of the tool above. Switch it to Sentiment Insights and the single score unfolds into its components: price score, volatility, volume, technicals, dominance, social tone, search interest, whale activity and the order book.
That breakdown is where the real reading lives. A greedy headline score with weakening volume and cooling whale activity is a very different market from a greedy score with everything running hot.
Mood and money: pair it with funding rates
Sentiment tells you how the crowd feels. Funding rates tell you what the crowd is paying to stay positioned. When both run to the same extreme, greed on the dial and expensive long funding, the market is crowded in the same direction twice over.
That is the condition squeezes are made of. The ParadiseTeam reads them together, and you can too: the live funding rates board is the money side of this page.
Go deeper: where the forced flows sit
Fear and greed reads the crowd's mood. It cannot tell you where the leverage behind that mood sits by price, and price is where forced selling and forced covering actually fire.
The Liquidation Heatmap maps that fuel by price level: how much leverage sits above and below the current price, and which way the imbalance leans. Mood here, mechanics there.
Fear and greed, answered
What is the Crypto Fear and Greed Index?
It is a 0 to 100 gauge of crypto market sentiment, where low readings mean fear and high readings mean greed. It condenses several market reads, volatility, momentum and volume, social activity, dominance and trend interest, into one score, so you can see at a glance how emotional or confident the market is right now.
How often does the index update?
The reading on this page refreshes every few minutes, and the selectable timeframes let you read the same score on a 4 hour or daily clock. 15 minute and 1 hour views are part of the PRO Paradiser membership.
What do the four zones mean?
0 to 24 is extreme fear: capitulation and washed out positioning. 25 to 49 is fear: negative but orderly sentiment. 50 to 74 is greed: building optimism and rising leverage. 75 to 100 is extreme greed: a hot, crowded market where sharp corrections are born.
How do traders use the Crypto Fear and Greed Index?
Mostly as a contrarian risk dial: extreme fear suggests forced selling may be largely spent, extreme greed suggests the market is crowded and vulnerable. Professionals never use it alone. They pair it with technical analysis, volume and funding rates, and treat extremes as a reason to adjust risk, not as a trade trigger. It is an educational reading, not financial advice.
Is the index only for Bitcoin?
The headline score reads the bitcoin market, which anchors sentiment for all of crypto. Altcoins tend to follow the same emotional cycle with bigger swings, so the index is widely used as a market wide sentiment read even though bitcoin drives the score.
Does extreme fear mean it is time to buy?
Not reliably. The historical table on this page shows how often bitcoin was higher 30 days after each reading, against a base rate of about 54 percent over the record. On the long record bitcoin rose slightly more often after extreme greed than after extreme fear, so treating fear alone as a buy signal is not supported by the data. It is a description of the past, not advice, and everything on this page is informational only.
What is the MCP Positioning Index?
It is the second instrument on this page, published beside the Fear and Greed Index. Where the headline index reads how the crowd feels, the MCP Positioning Index reads how the market is actually placed, fused from a fixed set of our own graded market reads. The two are meant to be compared: when mood and positioning disagree, that gap is the most useful thing on the page. It is a positioning reading, not a probability, and it is informational only.
Questions and answers
What is the Crypto Fear and Greed Index?
It is a 0 to 100 gauge of crypto market sentiment, where low readings mean fear and high readings mean greed. It condenses several market reads, volatility, momentum and volume, social activity, dominance and trend interest, into one score, so you can see at a glance how emotional or confident the market is right now.
How often does the index update?
The reading on this page refreshes every few minutes, and the selectable timeframes let you read the same score on a 4 hour or daily clock. 15 minute and 1 hour views are part of the PRO Paradiser membership.
What do the four zones mean?
0 to 24 is extreme fear: capitulation and washed out positioning. 25 to 49 is fear: negative but orderly sentiment. 50 to 74 is greed: building optimism and rising leverage. 75 to 100 is extreme greed: a hot, crowded market where sharp corrections are born.
How do traders use the Crypto Fear and Greed Index?
Mostly as a contrarian risk dial: extreme fear suggests forced selling may be largely spent, extreme greed suggests the market is crowded and vulnerable. Professionals never use it alone. They pair it with technical analysis, volume and funding rates, and treat extremes as a reason to adjust risk, not as a trade trigger. It is an educational reading, not financial advice.
Is the index only for Bitcoin?
The headline score reads the bitcoin market, which anchors sentiment for all of crypto. Altcoins tend to follow the same emotional cycle with bigger swings, so the index is widely used as a market wide sentiment read even though bitcoin drives the score.
Does extreme fear mean it is time to buy?
Not reliably. The historical table on this page shows how often bitcoin was higher 30 days after each reading, against a base rate of about 54 percent over the record. On the long record bitcoin rose slightly more often after extreme greed than after extreme fear, so treating fear alone as a buy signal is not supported by the data. It is a description of the past, not advice, and everything on this page is informational only.
What is the MCP Positioning Index?
It is the second instrument on this page, published beside the Fear and Greed Index. Where the headline index reads how the crowd feels, the MCP Positioning Index reads how the market is actually placed, fused from a fixed set of our own graded market reads. The two are meant to be compared: when mood and positioning disagree, that gap is the most useful thing on the page. It is a positioning reading, not a probability, and it is informational only.
