Fear & Greed Index Trend API

Fear & Greed Index with trend and momentum analysis — quantifies market psychology and sentiment shifts.

Webhook URL

https://api.hunchmachine.com/webhook/indicators?indicator=fear_greed_index_trend&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY

Description

Tracks the evolution of the Fear & Greed Index, a composite sentiment metric that gauges market psychology by combining volatility, volume, dominance, and social data. This version goes beyond the raw index value by adding trend, momentum, and interpretation fields that help automations and AI agents understand shifts in crowd emotion and risk appetite.

What this endpoint provides

A structured sentiment snapshot with both quantitative and qualitative layers — showing the current mood (fear, greed, or neutral), how it's evolving, and whether sentiment momentum is strengthening or fading.

Response fields

value

Current Fear & Greed Index score (0–100 scale).

avg_7d

7-day average of sentiment score (smooths out daily noise).

trend

Direction of recent sentiment movement (bullish, bearish, or neutral).

momentum_state

Describes sentiment's rate of change (strengthening, weakening).

sentiment

Current market mood (fear, greed, neutral, or variants like extreme fear).

sentiment_trend

Describes how sentiment is evolving (improving, deteriorating, steady).

interpretation

Natural-language summary providing immediate context (e.g., "Cautious sentiment — traders risk-averse.").

summary

Compact, human-readable string combining key values and interpretation.

timestamp

UTC timestamp of the latest update.

Output example

[
  {
    "indicator": "fear_greed_index_trend",
    "timestamp": "2025-11-01T02:29:54.096Z",
    "value": 33,
    "avg_7d": 41.1,
    "trend": "bearish",
    "momentum_state": "weakening",
    "sentiment": "fear",
    "sentiment_trend": "deteriorating",
    "interpretation": "Cautious sentiment — traders risk-averse. Sentiment weakening — caution advised.",
    "summary": "Sentiment: fear (33) | Trend: deteriorating | Cautious sentiment — traders risk-averse. Sentiment weakening — caution advised."
  }
]

Interpretation & Use

The Fear & Greed Index quantifies collective market emotion. • **Values below 40** → Fear / risk aversion (often near local bottoms). • **Values above 60** → Greed / optimism (often near local tops). • **Falling sentiment** (sentiment_trend: deteriorating) shows growing caution or selling pressure, while rising sentiment signals renewed confidence. Automations can use sentiment, trend, and momentum_state directly for bias detection (e.g., pause long exposure if sentiment = fear and trend = bearish), or feed the summary into LLMs for contextual reasoning about market mood shifts.