Crypto Fear & Greed Index

Crypto market fear and greed index (0-100), extreme fear is contrarian bullish.

Crypto Fear & Greed Index is part of the Sentiment & Positioning category. Positioning data reveals what the market is actually doing, as opposed to what it says it is doing. FINRA margin debt peaked ahead of every major bear market cycle of the last 40 years, while extreme readings in the AAII bull-bear spread are classic contrarian signals. CFTC commitments of traders separates speculative from commercial flow, identifying when large specs are overextended in either direction.

Crypto Fear & Greed Index is updated once per day after market close. Each metric page on Convex shows the exact time of the last data update and provides historical data going back up to five years.

Convex sources Crypto Fear & Greed Index data from primary sources including CBOE for options data, Alternative.me for the Fear & Greed Index, and exchange APIs for funding rates. Data is fetched automatically and displayed alongside interactive charts, AI analysis, and historical context.

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index page includes an interactive chart with selectable time ranges (1 month to 5 years), percentage changes over multiple timeframes, a table of recent readings, AI-generated analysis, and links to related metrics and comparisons.