Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index at 47 Highest since March 2nd. Up 7 points from yesterday. "Neutral."
Good evening. Bitcoin has essentially been making consistent gains over the last couple of days. As I write, 1 BTC = $43,869 USD and BTC is up 1.96% over the last 24 hours and up 7.27% on the week. And, at ~ 8:00 PM New York City time tonight Tuesday, March the 24'th, the infamous Twitter account Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index @BitcoinFear posted that a score = 47. That's the highest since March 2'nd and an increase of 7 points from 24 hours ago. It's also nearly double the moving average for the index from about a week ago (see pic below)! One day ago when the index score of 40 was posted the price was $42,917 USD/BTC and tonight when the new index of 47 just posted the price was $43,896 USD/BTC.. The index did not move overnight and remained at a designation of "neutral."
Below is a 30-day chart of the Fear and Greed Index values. On left side of the horizontal x-axis is the date back to 30 days prior and on the right side is the current date. On the y-axis are the Fear and Greed Index values for those dates. The only values that exceeded todays index in the last 30 days occurred on March 1st, and on March 2nd.
Why Measure Fear and Greed?
Crypto market behavior is very emotional. People can get greedy when markets rise inducing FOMO (Fear of missing out). In contrast, people often sell their coins and fail to HODL during dips. With the Fear and Greed Index, the idea is to help save you from your own emotional overreactions. There are two simple assumptions:
Extreme fear and the lowest index values can be a sign that investors are too worried. That could be a buying opportunity.
When Investors are getting too greedy, and the index is at its highest on longer term, or shorter term scales, that means the market is due for a correction.
Sentiment and other factors are thus crunched into a simple metric from 0 to 100. Zero means "Extreme Fear", while 100 means "Extreme Greed". See below for further information on data sources for the index.
Data Sources
Data for the index is gathered from the five following sources. Each data point is valued the same as the day before in order to visualize a meaningful progress in sentiment change of the crypto market.
Volatility (25 %)
Current volatility and maximum drawdowns of bitcoin are quantified and compared with corresponding average values of the last 30 days and 90 days. The index creators argue that an unusual rise in volatility is a sign of a fearful market.
Market Momentum/Volume (25%)
Current volume and market momentum (again in comparison with the last 30/90 day average values) are quantified and combined together. Generally, high buying volumes in a positive market on a daily basis leads index creators to conclude that the market is acting overly greedy / too bullish.
Social Media (15%)
Reddit sentiment analyses are still not in the live index but the index does account for twitter-based analysis of sentiment. Index creators gather and count posts with various hashtags for each major coin (publicly, they show only those for Bitcoin) and check how fast and how many interactions they receive in certain time frames). A unusual high interaction rate results in a grown public interest in the coin and according to index creators corresponds to greedy market behavior.
Surveys (15%) currently paused
The index creators have paused this feature for some and the percentage is split among the rest of the metrics.
Dominance (10%)
The dominance of a coin resembles the market cap share of the whole crypto market. Especially for Bitcoin, the creators of the index think that a rise in Bitcoin dominance is caused by a fear of (and thus a reduction of) too 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 next big bull run. Anyhow, analyzing the dominance for a coin other than Bitcoin, you could argue the other way round, since more interest in an alt-coin may conclude a bullish/greedy behavior for that specific coin.
Trends (10%)
The index creators pull Google Trends data for various Bitcoin related search queries and crunch those numbers, especially with respect to changes in search volumes as well as recommended other currently popular searches. For example, if you check Google Trends for "Bitcoin", you can’t get much information from the search volume. But currently, you can see that there is currently a +1,550% rise of the query „bitcoin price manipulation“ in the box of related search queries (as of 05/29/2018 according this information originally provided by index creators). This is clearly a sign of fear in the market, and the index creators use this in the metric.
It's great to see Bitcoin pumping and that once again we are all proven to be geniuses! HAHA! =) Let's hope it keeps heading that way a while.
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Footnote: I originally posted this article on PublishOx here: https://www.publish0x.com/jglonder/bitcoin-fear-and-greed-index-at-47-its-highest-since-march-2-xoovqwo
Thanks for stopping by and I hope this post find you in good spirits.
