How different Bitcoin Fear & Greed indexes calculate market sentiment How different Bitcoin Fear & Greed indexes calculate market sentiment
Bitcoin fear and greed indexes reveal market's extreme fear despite price uptick.
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Updated: Aug. 12, 2024 at 12:41 pm UTC
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As provided by several different platforms, the Fear and Greed (F&G) indexes for Bitcoin offer varied methodologies and insights into market sentiment. Each platform employs unique metrics to gauge investor sentiment, resulting in different scores and interpretations of the market’s mood.
Alternative.me is one of the most popular F&G indexes designed explicitly for Bitcoin. It considers factors such as volatility, market momentum/volume, social media sentiment, dominance, and trends. The index is updated daily and scores 0 to 100, indicating fear or greed in the market. The data sources include volatility (25%), market momentum/volume (25%), social media (15%), surveys (15%), and dominance (10%) of Bitcoin.
CoinStats also measures market sentiment based on similar factors like volatility, social media, and market momentum. However, it includes surveys as part of its analysis, contributing to the index’s result. This index is updated every 8 hours and considers volatility (25%), momentum/volume (25%), social media (15%), surveys (15%), Bitcoin dominance (10%), and Google Trends (10%).
CFGI.io offers a more comprehensive analysis by considering additional factors such as whale movements and order book analysis. It provides updates more frequently, every 15 minutes, and includes multiple temporalities for analysis. CFGI uses modules to analyze influential variables, including volume, volatility, dominance, whale movements, search engine data, and order book analysis. This multifactorial approach allows for a detailed understanding of market sentiment.
Binance also provides its own versions of the Fear and Greed Index, focusing on similar metrics to gauge investor sentiment. It calculates the index using various sources and provides historical data to track changes over time. Binance’s index is typically updated daily and considers factors similar to other indexes, such as volatility and market momentum.
As of the latest updates, Alternative.me’s index showed a score indicating “Extreme Fear” in the market, reflecting a bearish sentiment among investors. CoinStats also reported an “Extreme Fear” score, suggesting a more cautious market sentiment. CFGI.io’s index provides a dynamic view of market sentiment, with recent scores indicating a neutral sentiment. These variations highlight the differences in methodologies and the importance of considering multiple sources for a comprehensive view of market sentiment.
As of press time, Bitcoin has risen 2.2% over the past 90 minutes, while multiple indicators show the market in extreme fear. However, Bitcoin has also fallen around 3.4% over the past 24 hours.
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Also known as "Akiba," Liam Wright is a reporter, podcast producer, and Editor-in-Chief at CryptoSlate. He believes that decentralized technology has the potential to make widespread positive change.
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