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Crypto Fear & Greed Index today: 56 · Greed · 2026-09-23 16:20 UTC

Crypto Fear & Greed Index timeline → month-by-month history with the headlines behind each score

What this means: Crypto investors are optimistic. Risk appetite is rising.

Crypto Fear & Greed Index

Greed

Momentum, volatility and Bitcoin dominance blended with an independent sentiment cross-check.

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Updated 2026-09-23 16:20 UTC · engine v4

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What today’s number is made of

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Signal mix

Market prices 48% · News corpus 47% · Public attention 5%

Prices are measured, not read. Headlines are counted against our own history. Attention is ranked against three years. How this is computed

Confidence today

71Good

50 headlines from 3 sources this cycle · 1 estimated field(s) · data 0.0 h old. Low confidence does not mean the number is wrong — it means fewer signals stand behind it today. How this is computed

What the Crypto Fear & Greed Index tracks

Risk appetite, measured. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index reads bitcoin’s price momentum, its 30-day volatility and the share of crypto coverage in our corpus that is fearful. It runs 0 to 100: 0 is extreme fear, 100 is extreme greed.

Read it the other way round. This is the one WTM index where a high number means optimism. Crypto is the first market to sell when investors get nervous and the first to run when they relax, which makes it a fast read on risk appetite.

Built in-house. This is our own construction from open prices and our own news feeds, refreshed every ten minutes. It is not a copy of anyone else’s gauge, so the numbers will differ from other sites.

What pushes the Crypto Fear & Greed up or down

Bitcoin momentum — a strong 7-day rally pushes towards greed; a drawdown pushes towards fear.
30-day volatility — wild swings in either direction read as fear.
Fearful coverage — hacks, liquidations, exchange trouble and regulation crackdowns.
Liquidation cascades — forced selling shows up as a sudden drop in the score.

How to read today’s number

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Today: 56 — Greed. Crypto investors are optimistic. Risk appetite is rising.

Direction: it rose 4 points over the last 7 days and fell 10 points over 30 days. Our record since 23 July averages 55.0, so today sits close to its own normal.

Bitcoin is at $84,316 (-2.1% today), bitcoin dominance 58.8%.

The scale. 0–25 is extreme fear. 26–45 is fear. 46–55 is neutral. 56–75 is greed. Above 75 is extreme greed.

This month so far

September 2026 so far. Average 56.2 over 23 days. Peak 65 on 21 September, low 51 on 15 September. Read the September story →

Last month averaged 55.7, so this month is running higher by 0.5. Every month on record →

Questions people ask about the Crypto Fear & Greed Index

Why is this scale the opposite of the other indexes?

Because that is how the crypto world already reads fear and greed, and flipping it would confuse everyone. Inside the Market Fear Index we invert it (100 minus the reading) so all fear points the same way.

Is it the same as the well-known Fear & Greed gauge?

No. Ours is built from bitcoin price data and our own news corpus. It moves in the same direction most days, but it is an independent reading, not a mirror.

Can it predict bitcoin’s price?

No index can. Extreme readings tend to cluster near turning points, but timing a trade from a sentiment gauge alone is a losing game.

Why does WTM track crypto at all?

Because it is the purest live signal of risk appetite. Stocks close at night; bitcoin trades through every crisis, so it tells us how investors feel at 3 a.m. on a Sunday.

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