{"id":75906,"date":"2023-03-21T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T10:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=75906"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:19:16","slug":"fear-and-greed-index-hits-its-highest-level-in-a-year-and-a-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/fear-and-greed-index-hits-its-highest-level-in-a-year-and-a-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Greed Index hits its highest level in a year and a half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index <a href=\\\"https:\/\/alternative.me\/crypto\/fear-and-greed-index\/\\\">reached a level of 68<\/a>, which is the highest reading in nearly a year and a half.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Similar readings were observed as far back as mid-November 2021, against the backdrop of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-price-hits-all-time-high-at-69000\">Bitcoin reaching an all-time high at the $69,000 mark<\/a>. After that, the indicator largely signalled worsening market sentiment and the predominance of \u201cfear\u201d among market participants.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-large\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" width=\\\"1024\\\" height=\\\"458\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fear-and-Greed-1-1024x458.png\\\" alt=\\\"Fear-and-Greed-1\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-201860\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fear-and-Greed-1-1024x458.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fear-and-Greed-1-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fear-and-Greed-1-768x343.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fear-and-Greed-1.png 1118w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/alternative.me\/crypto\/fear-and-greed-index\/\\\">alternative.me<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The rise in the readings comes as the crypto market recovers. The total market capitalization reached $1.2 trillion, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/global-charts\\\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-large\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" width=\\\"1024\\\" height=\\\"353\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinGecko-20-1024x353.png\\\" alt=\\\"CoinGecko-20\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-201861\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinGecko-20-1024x353.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinGecko-20-300x103.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinGecko-20-768x265.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinGecko-20.png 1277w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/all-cryptocurrencies\\\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the last 30 days, digital gold has risen by more than 13%. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at around $27,800.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, analyst Michael van de Poppe <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/analyst-lays-out-conditions-for-bitcoin-price-correction\">forecasted<\/a> a drop in the price of the leading cryptocurrency to $25,000 if the asset does not stay above $27,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index reached 68, which is the highest reading in nearly a year and a half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1384],"class_list":["post-75906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-fear-index"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75908,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75906\/revisions\/75908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}