{"id":504981,"date":"2022-10-05T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=504981"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:27:04","slug":"low-volatility-crypto-market-stable-state-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/low-volatility-crypto-market-stable-state-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Volatility Crypto Market Supplies Surprisingly Stable State Of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"
Data shows the crypto market has remained in a state of extreme fear recently despite the Bitcoin volatility being quite low.<\/p>\n
As per the latest weekly report from Arcane Research<\/a>, investors in the cryptocurrency sector have remained extremely fearful since late August.<\/p>\n The “fear and greed index<\/a>” is an indicator that tells us about the current sentiment among participants in the crypto market.<\/p>\n The metric makes use of a numeric scale that runs from zero to hundred for representing this sentiment. All values above 50 mark periods of greed, while those below the threshold suggest fear among the investors.<\/p>\n At values towards either end of the range, that is those above 75 and below 25, occur mentalities of “extreme greed<\/a>” and “extreme fear.”<\/p>\n Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the crypto fear and greed index over the last year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As you can see in the above graph, the crypto fear and greed index has a value of 20 at the moment, implying the market is extremely fearful.<\/p>\n This is a continuation of an extreme fear streak that started more than one month ago, back during late August.<\/p>\n Historically, investors have usually maintained fearful sentiments during periods of high volatility in coins such as Bitcoin, while stretches of low volatility have accompanied times of greed.<\/p>\nThe value of the metric seems to have not changed much in recent days | Source: Arcane Research's The Weekly Update - Week 39, 2022<\/a><\/pre>\n