Stock market Crowd Fear & Greed: 42/100, fear. Week before: 51. A year before: 56. Data as of 9 October 2026.

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On 9 October 2026 the stock market Crowd Fear & Greed read 42 out of 100 (fear), according to TradingLookup's Crowd Fear & Greed (October 2026).

Built from positions, not prices. This is our crowd-based reading, not CNN's or alternative.me's mood-based fear and greed index: the two can disagree.

• Weekly, after the CFTC report
• All three readings
• Monthly archive

What it measures

How greedy the crowd's positioning in US stocks is. It uses small traders in E-mini S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 2000 futures. It measures positioning only: no prices, volatility, put/call ratios or junk-bond spreads, which is what makes it different from mood-based stock market readings.

• Half: positioningHow long small traders are against their own last three years (the Crowd Gauge).
• Half: momentumHow fast they have been adding longs over the last four weeks.
• 50 = a normal weekBoth halves are percentiles.

Weeks in extreme greed (75+)

74 of 1084

Weeks in extreme fear (under 25)

86 of 1084

Since

6 January 2006

History

By month

Markets in this reading

S&P 500

77/100 Crowd Gauge, leaning long

Nasdaq-100

55/100 Crowd Gauge, balanced

Russell 2000

37/100 Crowd Gauge, leaning short

• Crypto 66
• Bitcoin 72

Not the same as mood-based fear and greed readings published elsewhere, which mix price and volatility inputs.

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