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Crypto Fear & Greed Index

Each day, we analyze emotions and sentiments from dissimilar sources and crisis them into i simple number: The Fearfulness & Greed Index for Bitcoin and other large cryptocurrencies.

Crypto Fearfulness & Greed Index Over Time

This is a plot of the Fright & Greed Alphabetize over time, where a value of 0 means “Extreme Fear” while a value of 100 represents “Farthermost Greed”.

Why Measure Fright and Greed?

The crypto market behaviour is very emotional. People tend to become greedy when the market is rising which results in FOMO (Fear of missing out). Also, people often sell their coins in irrational reaction of seeing cherry-red numbers. With our Fear and Greed Index, we endeavor to save you lot from your own emotional overreactions. There are two simple assumptions:

• 
  Extreme fear
  
  can exist a sign that investors are too worried. That could be a
  
  buying opportunity
  .
• When Investors are getting
  
  also greedy
  , that means the market place is
  
  due for a correction
  .

Therefore, nosotros clarify the current sentiment of the Bitcoin marketplace and crunch the numbers into a simple meter from 0 to 100. Null means “Extreme Fear”, while 100 means “Farthermost Greed”. See below for further information on our information sources.

Data Sources

Showtime of all, the current index is for bitcoin simply (we offer dissever indices for big alt coins soon), considering a big part of it is the volatility of the money cost.

But let’s list all the dissimilar factors we’re including in the current index:

Volatility (25 %)

We’re measuring the current volatility and max. drawdowns of bitcoin and compare information technology with the corresponding average values of the last xxx days and xc days. We argue that an unusual ascension in volatility is a sign of a fearful marketplace.

Market Momentum/Volume (25%)

Also, nosotros’re measuring the current volume and market place momentum (again in comparison with the last 30/90 day average values) and put those two values together. Generally, when nosotros run into high buying volumes in a positive market on a daily footing, we conclude that the market acts overly greedy / besides bullish.

Social Media (15%)

While our reddit sentiment analysis is still non in the live index (we’re however experimenting some market place-related key words in the text processing algorithm), our twitter analysis is running. There, we get together and count posts on various hashtags for each coin (publicly, nosotros bear witness only those for Bitcoin) and cheque how fast and how many interactions they receive in sure time frames). A unusual loftier interaction charge per unit results in a grown public interest in the coin and in our optics, corresponds to a greedy market behaviour.

Surveys (15%)
currently paused

Together with strawpoll.com (disclaimer: we own this site, likewise), quite a big public polling platform, nosotros’re conducting weekly crypto polls and inquire people how they run into the market place. 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. Nosotros don’t requite those results too much attention, but it was quite useful in the beginning of our studies. Y’all can see some recent results here.

Dominance (ten%)

The dominance of a coin resembles the market cap share of the whole crypto market. Specially for Bitcoin, we think that a ascent in Bitcoin dominance is acquired by a fear of (and thus a reduction of) also speculative alt-coin investments, since Bitcoin is becoming more and more the safe haven of crypto. On the other side, when Bitcoin dominance shrinks, people are getting more greedy by investing in more risky alt-coins, dreaming of their chance in adjacent big bull run. Anyhow, analyzing the dominance for a money other than Bitcoin, you could argue the other way round, since more interest in an alt-money may conclude a bullish/greedy behaviour for that specific money.

Trends (ten%)

We pull Google Trends data for diverse Bitcoin related search queries and crunch those numbers, particularly the change of search volumes also equally recommended other currently popular searches. For example, if you check Google Trends for “Bitcoin”, you can’t go much information from the search volume. Simply currently, you lot can come across that at that place is currently a
+one,550%
rising of the query
„bitcoin toll manipulation“
in the box of related search queries (as of 05/29/2018). This is conspicuously a sign of fear in the market place, and we use that for our index.

Fright and Greed Index API

                Go
                https://api.alternative.me/fng/?limit=2
                Response
                { 	"name": "Fear and Greed Index", 	"information": [ 		{ 			"value": "xl", 			"value_classification": "Fear", 			"timestamp": "1551157200", 			"time_until_update": "68499" 		}, 		{ 			"value": "47", 			"value_classification": "Neutral", 			"timestamp": "1551070800" 		} 	], 	"metadata": { 		"mistake": null 	} }
              

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