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Market sentiment
Three honest measures of whether the market is bullish or bearish, and they do not always agree. That disagreement is usually the most useful thing on this page.
Crypto Fear & Greed
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A reading near zero means people are panicking, near 100 means they are euphoric. It is built from volatility, momentum, volume, social chatter and Bitcoin's share of the market. Contrarians treat extremes as a signal to do the opposite; that is a philosophy, not a fact.
Futures positioning week of 2026-09-15
Every week the CFTC publishes who is long and who is short in the big futures contracts. This is large speculators: funds and professional traders with real money at risk. It is the closest thing to a scoreboard of what the smart money is actually betting on.
Stock index
| Dow 30 | 72.6% long | +16,027 net-1,318 this week | |
| Nasdaq 100 | 63.0% long | +32,569 net+11,865 this week | |
| Russell 2000 | 34.2% long | -72,350 net+10,485 this week |
Crypto
| Bitcoin | 54.0% long | +2,468 net+944 this week |
Currencies
| Japanese yen | 66.9% long | +120,359 net+109,563 this week | |
| Euro | 47.0% long | -26,993 net+15,623 this week | |
| British pound | 35.1% long | -58,715 net+121 this week |
Metals
| Gold | 90.3% long | +230,338 net-1,622 this week | |
| Silver | 77.9% long | +25,326 net-723 this week | |
| Copper | 73.6% long | +75,134 net-17,342 this week |
Energy
| Natural gas | 36.8% long | -221,587 net-1,820 this week |
Non-commercial (speculative) positions from the CFTC's Commitments of Traders report. Published Fridays for the previous Tuesday, so it is always a few days behind. Heavy one-way positioning is a crowded trade, and crowded trades unwind hard when they turn.
Technical rating
What the charts alone say, with no news and no positioning: moving averages and oscillators reduced to one verdict per market.
S&P 500
Nasdaq 100
Bitcoin
Gold
EUR/USD
Crude oil
Market data by TradingView and Coinbase. Rates are the latest daily or weekly Federal Reserve data. Futures boards show 24-hour index and commodity prices that track futures markets. Some quotes may be delayed. Not investment advice.
How to use this page
- Look for disagreement. When Fear and Greed says euphoria but futures positioning is falling, somebody is wrong, and it is usually not the people with money on the line.
- Extremes matter more than the middle. 50 tells you nothing. 90% of speculators on one side of gold tells you a lot.
- Positioning is a week old. It is a picture of where the crowd was, not where it is. Treat it as context, not a trigger.
- Sentiment is not a forecast. A crowded trade can stay crowded for months and keep paying. It just gets more dangerous the longer it lasts.
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