Crowd Fear & Greed: how greedy is the crowd's positioning?
One input only: what small traders actually hold.
- High: heavily long and still piling in
- Low: short or bailing out
On 9 October 2026 TradingLookup's Crowd Fear & Greed read 66 for crypto (greed), 72 for bitcoin (greed), 42 for stock market (fear), according to TradingLookup's Crowd Fear & Greed (October 2026).
Crypto Crowd Fear & Greed: 66, greed
Bitcoin Crowd Fear & Greed: 72, greed
Stock market Crowd Fear & Greed: 42, fear
Last three years
Monthly archive
How it's built
- Half: positioningThe Crowd Gauge reading: how long small traders are, against their own last three years.
- Half: momentumHow fast their long share changed over four weeks, against the same three years.
- MarketsCrypto averages bitcoin (CME bitcoin and micro bitcoin futures) and ether. Stock market averages the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 2000.
- UpdatesWeekly after the CFTC report; daily once our exchange data has enough history.
- Extreme fear
- 0–25
- Fear
- 25–45
- Neutral
- 45–55
- Greed
- 55–75
- Extreme greed
- 75–100
Not the mood-based kind. CNN Business (US stocks) and alternative.me (crypto) publish their own measures; numbers from the two can disagree. Full method: method page.
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On 9 October 2026 TradingLookup's Crowd Fear & Greed read 66 for crypto (greed), 72 for bitcoin (greed), 42 for stock market (fear), according to TradingLookup's Crowd Fear & Greed (October 2026).