Today's Sentiment
Sentiment scores are informational only and are not investment advice. Past sentiment does not predict future price moves.
What Is the Fear & Greed Index?
The Fear & Greed Index compresses the mood of an entire market into a single number from 0 to 100. It exists because prices alone don't tell you whether a move is driven by calm, rational buying and selling — or by panic and euphoria. Sentiment tends to run in cycles: fear breeds more selling, and greed breeds more buying, often well past the point that the underlying fundamentals justify.
A score near 0 is Extreme Fear — the market is jumpy, volatility is elevated, and investors are pulling back or selling into strength. A score near 100 is Extreme Greed — investors are buying aggressively, often chasing recent gains. Everything in between moves through Fear, Neutral, and Greed as sentiment shifts.
Swoopr Trade tracks two separate gauges — one for crypto, one for the broader stock market — because the two markets are driven by different participants, different news cycles, and different risk appetites. It's common for crypto sentiment and stock sentiment to disagree, sometimes sharply.
How Traders Use It
The classic use of a sentiment gauge like this is as a contrarian signal: extremes tend to be where crowds are most likely to be wrong. When a market sits in Extreme Fear, prices have often already priced in a lot of bad news, and further downside can be limited — though fear can also persist or deepen, so a low score is a prompt to look closer, not a buy signal on its own. When a market sits in Extreme Greed, it's worth asking whether the move has run ahead of the fundamentals.
The 30-day trend line on each gauge matters as much as the current number. A score climbing out of Extreme Fear tells a different story than one sliding into it, even if today's reading looks similar. Watching the direction, not just the level, is usually more useful than a single snapshot.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Fear & Greed Index?
A 0-100 score summarizing overall market sentiment. Near 0 is Extreme Fear — investors selling and pulling back. Near 100 is Extreme Greed — investors buying aggressively and chasing gains. The middle of the range is Neutral.
What does a low score mean?
A score of 0-25 (Extreme Fear) means sentiment has turned sharply negative, often alongside rising volatility and falling prices. Extreme fear has sometimes preceded recoveries historically, since prices can overshoot to the downside — but it's not a guarantee of a bounce.
What does a high score mean?
A score of 75-100 (Extreme Greed) means sentiment has turned sharply positive, often alongside strong recent gains. It can signal an asset has become overextended and more vulnerable to a pullback, though a drop isn't guaranteed to follow.
Is crypto sentiment the same as stock market sentiment?
No. Crypto and stocks often move on different news cycles and different investor bases, so their scores can and do diverge — crypto can sit in Extreme Fear while stocks sit in Greed, or the reverse. That's why Swoopr Trade tracks them as two separate gauges.
How often does it update?
Roughly every 15 minutes.
Is this the same as CNN's Fear & Greed Index?
No. The stock gauge here is Swoopr Trade's own index, built from market volatility and momentum signals. It's directionally similar in spirit to other well-known fear & greed gauges but isn't affiliated with or reproducing any other publisher's proprietary methodology.
Where can I see more free market data from Swoopr?
The free live ticker covers indexes, mega-cap stocks, and top crypto assets with price changes and trend sparklines — no account required, same as this page.