2026-01-20 07:42:33

Sentiment flipped before price did.

Bitcoin's 30-day Fear & Greed index just crossed above its 90-day average. This kind of move doesn't happen when everyone's drunk on euphoria. It happens when doubt still lingers, when people are skeptical, when the market's holding its breath.

Current Fear & Greed reading sits around 30. That's barely off the floor. The numbers tell a story the headlines haven't caught up to yet—plenty of uncertainty still baked into every position.

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pumpamentalist

· 7h ago

The fear index at 30 is still bottoming out, this is the real opportunity.

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Lonely_Validator

· 19h ago

Emotions lead first, prices follow... I've seen this pattern too many times.

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CryptoNomics

· 20h ago

nah see this is where most traders get it wrong—they're reading the sentiment *after* the price move already happened. statistically significant? maybe. but if you actually run a proper regression analysis on the lag structure, you'd see fear&greed is basically a lagging indicator dressed up as predictive. correlation ≠ causation, folks.

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HashBard

· 20h ago

sentiment always moves before the charts catch a clue... market's still whispering when most are screaming, that's when the real story starts brewing

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CodeSmellHunter

· 20h ago

Emotions lead first, prices follow later. I've seen this pattern too many times.

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